US58809A

US58809A - Improved mode of sinking well-tubes

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Publication number: US58809A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1866-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1883-10-16

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

JOHN GILMORE, JR., AND AARON WIOKS GILMORE, OF UTIOA, PA.

IMPROVED MODE OF SINKING WELL-TUBES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,809, dated October 16, 1866.

Zo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN GILMORE, Jr., and AARON WIOKs GILMORE, of Utica, Venango county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Sinking'Water-"Wells, and we do hereby .declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe aecompanyin g drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon. Y

Figure l represents our machine with all its parts adjusted in order. D D is a tube ot' iron- 1'. e., the well and pump tube. B is a drill; A A, the drill-rod, which is screwed together in sections, onejoint being shown at s.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the drill-rod, showing a collar thereon with four flanges, 4 5 (i 7. (Also, see 4 5 6, Figs. 2 and 1.) E is a collar on the inside of the tube D D, fastened tothe tube. l 2 3 are notches or grooves in the collar, made so that when the drillrod A is forced down, the lianges 7 6 5 4 will fit into the notches l, 2, 3, and 3', (see Fig. 4 and end view of the collar,) and thus prevent the lower or drill section ot' the rod from turning, so that the saine can be unscrewed at s, thereby permitting the removal of the rod A While the drill-section must remain in the well. O is a shoulder on tlle'upper end of the drill, which tits closeljr into the lower end of the well-tube D Dthereb v preventing dirt from entering the tube while the saine is being driven into the earth.

Our machine operates as follows, to wit: The drill is drawn up in the position shown in Fig. 2. The tube D D is now driven down until it str ikes a rock or hard clay, when it can be driven no farther. The tube D D is then drawn back to the position shown in Fig. l, the drill remaining down on the rock or clay. The drill can now be moved up and down between lthe end of the tube D D and the rock or clay, thus drilling a hole, when the tube D D can be forced after. When the tube is forced down the required depth for water it is then drawn back until the collar E clutches or meets the iianges 4 5 6 7. This opens the end oi' the tube D D, (as the drill-rod is smaller than the inside of the tube D D,) and the drill-rod is then unscrewed ats and the rod withdrawn. This leaves the lower end of the tube D D Open for water to enter, which is drawn up by a pump.

fhat we claim as our invention, and desire to-secure by Letters Patent, is-

The drill B, with the flanges 4 5 6 7, in conib'ination with the collar E and the tube D D, when the saine are constructed as described in the aforesaid combination, for the purposes set forth.

JOHN GILMORE. AARON VIOKS GILLWIORE.

Witnesses: l

A. B. RICHMOND, LOUIs L. RICHMOND.