272 Improved Buaketfor drmving Water out of deep IFellgi: 



head of a common light beer-barrel ; a cross was placed irt 

 the centre of the top of the barrel ; it was then let down 

 into the w^ell by a rope ; it filled through the valve in the 

 bottom^ and came up very steady and full, with scarce any 

 drip : what little drip there was, fell immediately down the 

 well from the valve in the centre of the bottom without wet- 

 ting the descending rope, such wetting being very preju- 

 <}icial to the rope, as in use with the old buckets; for by 

 the nature of their bails they ascend swinging, sometimes 

 strike in passing, and by splashing over the sides are never 

 full. 



*' Two buckets on the new construction were immediately 

 made with iron hoops as light as possible ; they have worked 

 four years without being out of condition ; the hoops, 

 chains, Sec, of these buckets weigh less than the old ones 

 by two hundred wfight. The well-rope is little more than 

 half the size and cost ; a much greater quantity of water is 

 raised in an equal time^ and the labour of the horse much 

 relieved." 



Description of the improved Machine. 



A A, (Plate V.) two posts fixed in the curb of the well, 

 opposite each other, and grooved within to receive the ends 

 c)f the collar. 



B, two parallel bars which bear down the small iron arms 

 or cross, R, as the bucket ascends, and open the valve to 

 discharge the water. 



C C, the collar resting on pegs in the groove ; and, being 

 lifted by the bucket in ascending, communicates, by a rod 

 or line down the groove, with the short end of the moveable 

 bars at D : the short end of these bars, which work on a 

 pin or fulcrum at E, being so moved, draws forward the 

 trough, F, with an increased velocity, by means of the lines- 

 passing from it over the pulleys GG, and fastened to the 

 long end of the bar at H; by this action the trough runs 

 under the bucket, and is ready to deliver the water into the 

 cistern I, when the valve Q (which is about five inches di- 

 anieter) is opened by the cross L, striking the bars at B. 



F, the trough, moving on four brass rollers, which, on 

 the water being delivered, runs back, as the bucket de- 

 sceiids, with the same velocity as it was drawn forward : 

 this is done by means of the weight K, hid within the lining 

 of the model, and connected by a line, passing over a pulley 

 in the franie above, to the centre of the hinder part of the 

 trough. 



L, two thin pieces of iron fixtd -acros-s the top of the 

 **" ' bucket; 



