Improved Self Acting Hydraulic Ram. 



We give herewith two illustrations of an improved self-acting hydraulic 

 ram, specially designed by the manufacturers, Messrs. S. Owens and Co., of 

 AVhitefriars Street, London, for supplying water to estates, mansions, farms, 

 &c. The specialities of this apparatus are that it is constantly at work with- 

 out recpiiring any attention, and that it entails no cost for labour or motive 

 power, the only desideratum being a fall of a few feet. To obtain this it is 

 not always necessary to connect with a running stream, as a head of water 

 from which sufficient fall may be obtained can often be secured from a 

 lake or pond, or by damming up a brook or spring. 



The hiuJscape sketch shows a ram supplied by a fall of water from a lake, 

 and forcing up to a mansion at an elevation, the waste water expended in 

 working the ram being carried off to a lower level and into the natural 

 channel which the overflow of the lake finds for itself 



The plan on the opposite page shows a position in which Messrs. S. 

 Owens and Co. have fixed two of their hydraulic rams on an estate, and it 

 will serve as an illustration of the advantages derivable from this simple 

 mode of raising water. These rams have been in constant work for 

 between, six and seven years, with but an occasional and trifling cost for 

 new valves, which are inserted by the man in charge. From 3,000 to 

 6,000 gallons per diem are raised in a variety of directions to different 

 cdevations, and through a very considerable length of pipe to tanks at 

 ABC and D ; the estate is thus well supplied with water, practically 

 without any expenditure of labour. 



The cost of the hydraulic ram and appurtenances is so moderate as to be 

 within the reach of all requiring water to be raised to an elevation where 

 the position is suitable. It is indeed, we believe, the least expensive of all 

 appliances for raising water, both in original outlay and wear and tear, a 

 new valve only being occasionally required, which can be easily securetl in 

 its place by any intelligent man, and which costs a mere trifle. A con- 

 stant supply of water may thus be depended upon, .without any cost for 

 labour or motive power, wherever (as is frequently the case) good water 

 upon an estate is running to waste, which might readily be made, before so 

 doing, to form its own motive power in propelling a good portion to points 

 where required. 



