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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class V.: William Elliot Carrett

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Steam Pump

35. CARRETT, WILLIAM ELLIOT, 13 Rockingham Street, Leeds — Inventor and Patentee.

A steam-pump, combining a high-pressure engine, and an improved suction and force pump, designed and constructed for filling low or high pressure locomotive, stationary, or marine steam-boilers, and for fetching or forcing water any distance or height; it may, by disconnecting the pump, be used as a steam-engine for driving portable machinery for engineering works, the household or farmyard, for working hydraulic presses, water-cranes, &c.

A portable steam-pump, for lifting or forcing water. Applicable to the supply of steam boilers—locomotive, marine, and stationary. Also as a water-lift to work hydraulic presses, water cranes, &c. Fig. 1 shows a front, and Fig. 2 an end, elevation of the steam-pump.

This apparatus is a simple form of high-pressure engine, with a lifting and a force pump combined; is portable and complete in itself, requiring no other fixing than the attachment of the steam and water pipes.— Invented by W. E. Garrett, engineer, Leeds, and registered Aug. 31, 1850. It is constructed to fetch or force water any required distance in one continuous stream, without shock or injury to the pipes or machinery; and at an effective velocity. The pump can also be disconnected, when the engine is to be used singly for driving small machinery of the household or the farm-yard.

A portable high-pressure boiler of two-horse power, weighing 6 cwt. Complete in itself, and independent of all fixings and foundations. Constructed for working the steam-pump, and for several other engineering, agricultural, and domestic uses. The funnel is capable of being unshipped and stowed away, thus rendering the whole easy of removal from place to place.— Provisionally registered.

A portable high-pressure boiler, so constructed as to be convenient for removal from place to place.

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