GB Patent: 181,604,075 - Steam engine, on a new construction, for drawing water from mines, for working different kinds of machinery, and for other purposes for which steam engines are generally applied


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GB Patent: GB-181,604,075

Steam engine, on a new construction, for drawing water from mines, for working different kinds of machinery, and for other purposes for which steam engines are generally applied

Patentee:

Simon Hosking (exact or similar names) - Phillack, county Cornwall, England

USPTO Classifications:

Tool Categories:

propulsion and energy : steam engines

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Nov. 01, 1816

Patent Pictures:

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Description:

The inventor was a cabinetmaker.

From Abridgments of Specifications Relating to the Steam Engine, Part I Vol. I: "Uses three cylinders or steam vessels. The larges cylinder if fixed, has two valves, and is connected with a condensing apparatus. The smallest cylinder is also fixed, and set exactly over the large cylinder, and its bottom reaches to the top of it; the middle cylinder is moveable, and slides, steam tight, up and down on the outside of the small cylinder, and inside of the large cylinder, and has a piston on its under end to work in the large cylinder. Being open at top, the steam and water have a free course into it and upon the piston; and as it is full of water supplied by the condensed steam passing and re-passing through the small cylinder, the steam of high temperature is prevented from injuring the packing. The moveable cylinder is attached to the working beam in the usual manner..."