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THE GARDENERS 1 CHRONICLE. 



[July 21, 1888. 



Send for an ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST of 



JOHN BLAKE'S 



PATENT SELF-ACTING HYDRAULIC 



For Raising Water for the Supply of Towns, Villages, Irrigation, Railway Stations, Mansions, Fountains, Farms, &o. 



No Cost for Motive Power, which is obtained from a Stream of Water passing through the Ram. 



NO OILING OR PACKING REQUIRED. 



MADE IN SIZES TO RAISE FROM 300 to 500,000 GALLONS PER DAY. WILL FORCE TO A HEIGHT OF 1500 Feet. 

 SPECIAL RAMS for HIGH FALLS, to send up One-Third of the Water passing through them. 



Fig. A. 



Fig. B. 



"View of Ham Worked by Water from a Spring, and 

 supplying the House and Garden on the Hill. 



E X T R A C TS FROM TEST I M O N I A L S. 



VILLAGE WATEE SUPPLY. 



From Mr. THOMAS FARLEY, 



Agent to the Trustees of the late William Eoundell, Esq., Gledstone Estate, West Marton, Skipton, August 11, 1887. 

 "Dear Sir,— The Patent Hydraulic Ram you fixed five years ago on this estate is still working as well as it did on the day it started. It is driven by spring water carried along the hillside in 

 950 yards of iron pipe, and forces up an abundant supply to an underground tank on the hill at a distance of 2 miles from, and at an elevation of 280 feet above the ram. The water is then 

 gravitated through several pip.'- and branches, having a total length of abont 4 miles, for the supply of the mansion, gardens, stables, estate workshop, and steam boiler, the village of West Marton, 

 and several farms. There are five fire-plugs inside the mansion and seven outside ; and as the underground reservoir is 70 feet above the mansion, seven jets of water can be thrown over the house in 

 case of fire. As there is still a considerable overflow from the underground reservoir running to waste, I intend to form a second reservoir at a lower level, and utilise the water for other farms. I 

 have much pleasure in being able to report as above." 



From J. R. Mc CAELUM, Esq., C.R., 



Borough and Water Engineer, Blackburn, November 1, 1886. Guide (Borough of Blackburn) Water Supply. 



" Dear Sir,— Following is the short report I promised to send as to the work performed by the Hydraulic Rams— supplied by you to the Blackburu Corporation— after they had been in operation 

 sufficient time to take proper observations. 



"The district of Guide— population about 500— in the Borough of Blackburn, is situated above the highest reservoir of the Blackburn Waterworks, and had no regular water supply until last 

 July, when the Water Committee caused two of your Patent Hydraulic Rams to be put down and worked by water from a reservoir having a varying but maximum head of 34 feet 3 inches on 

 the Rams — the waste (clean) water gravitating to a lower adjacent reservoir. 



" You contracted to supply rams which would force 8000 gallons per day each through 1295 yards of delivery pipe to a service tank 170 feet above the rams, and I am bound to state that the 

 result has considerably exceeded my expectations, as the rams are capable of pumping, and have pumped, much more water than you promised. The percentage of efficiency exceeds all I 

 expected, and is, in my opinion, much more than is usually obtained from hydraulic rams. 



"From a test I made on September 29, I found that two rams with finch and g- inch strokes respectively, supplied with 194, '■■30 gallons per day, together pumped 26,090 gallons per day to a 

 height of 170 feet, giving 71*43 per cent, of efficiency, and one ram working at f-inch stroke, and with only 16—18 feet of working fall, supplied with 154,537 gallons per day, pumped 10,587 gallons 

 per day to the same height, showing 72 - 75 per cent, of efficiency. 



" At a subsequent test on October 11, one ram at g-inch stroke, and having 31 feet 9 inches of working fall supplied with 121,083 gallons per day, pumped 17,533 gallons per day to an elevation 

 of 171t feet > the efficiency in this case being 79"57 per cent. 



"In arriving at these results the greatest care was taken to positively measure the water, besides having a meter check on feed and delivery pipes. 



" The work carried out by you at Blackburn is substantial and satisfactory in every way, and if any engineer wishes to make his own observations he is at liberty to come here and do so." 



From Mr. HENRY ROE INS ON, 



Engineer to the Stockport District Waterworks Company, September 8. 1883, 

 report well of the two Hydraul; ~ 



1 am convinced tnat hu.uuu gallons is not me iimiu < 



fed, and I am inclined to the belief that a more simple and efficient pump cannot be found. 



From Mr. J. A. RUTHERFORD, 



Agent to C. F. H. Bolckow, Esq., Estate Office, Marton Hall, Middlesborough, September 26, 1883. 

 " DEAR Sir,— lam glad to say that the Rams you put down on the Hambledon Estate, for Mr. C. F. H. Bolckow, are working very well. You undertook, with 16 gallons per minute, to send 

 up 1500 gallons a day, and with enough water to work the Rams at full power, 2000 gallons a day. With a supply of 11, gallons per minute they are lifting 2200 gallons, and when working full 

 power, 3105 gallons per day are sent up to a height of nearly 400 feet. They made a cler - _i 



The Delivery Pipe, 



" Dear Sir,— 1 1 

 they would force to a height of 68 feet, but on testing them I 

 equal to half the capacity of the 6-inch pipe by which they 



fixed to your instructions for the supply of Disley Village. 40,000 gallons per day was the quantity you promised 

 d that 50,000 gallons is not the limit of their power, whilst the quantity of waste water used in driving them i 

 m inclined to the belief that £ ' v 



From THOMAS RORERTS, Esq. 



Estate Surveyor to His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.G., Surveyor's Office, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, April 13, 1836. 

 " DEAR Sir,— I am pleased to say that the Hydraulic Ram you supplied and fixed at Titensor (the residence of the Marquess of Stafford, M.P.)'does its \v 

 9 feet 6 inches, raisin^ 9000 gallons daily to a height of 150 feet. The Duke of Sutherland, K.G., inspected the working of the Ram, and expressed his entire satisfact 



ork i 



rv satisfactorily, with a fall of 



vith it.— I am yours faithfully, 



"THOMAS ROBERTS." 



From HENRY MORTON, Esq., 



Agent to the Most Honourable the Marquess of Ripon, K.G., Ripon, April 12, 18S6. 

 "DearSir,— The Patent Kam. with 1} mile of service pipe, a large galvanised tank, and other fittings, which you fixed for the Marquess of Ripon, forthe conveyance of water from Hutton Moor Springs 

 to Blows Hall and Copt Jl.-wirk Hall, are" highly satisfactory to all concerned, both as an engineering success and the intrinsic merits of the materials supplied. About 6000 gallons of water per da v 

 iir.. forced into tin.- tank a I ] Slows Hall, nearly a" mile distant, and 127 feel: above the Ram, the overflow falling into a I'O.ouo gallon underground tank, from which it gravitates through the 4-inch 

 800 yards long, with a fall of 70 feet to the service-cocks and fire-plugs at Copt Hawick Hall, where in case of fire, two or three powerful jets of water can be thrown on to the roof of the Hall 



aider your method of carrying out the t 

 what you guaranteed. — I am, dear sir, yours very truly, 



rythi 



of fire, two or three powerful jets of water can be thrown c 



that could be desired, and, whilst the waste-power water from the Ram is less than you specified, the quantity elevated is just 



From WILLIAM DICKINSON, Esq., 



'HENRY MORTON." 



Agent to the Most Honourable the Marquess of Abergavenny, K.G., Bridge E-tate Office, Hargato Lodge, Tunbridge Wells, July 3, 1885. 

 •■Sir— lam instructed bv the Marquess of Abergavenny to say that the Patent Hydraulic Ram, with over two miles of pipes, forcing water to a height of 230 feet, which you erected at Kridae 

 Castle about nine mouths ago,' has given his lordship entire satisfaction, and he has every confidence in its continuing to do so.— I am, sir, yours faithfully, " WILLIAM DICKINSON." 



From Captain T0WNSHEND, 



Wincham, February 10, 1877. 

 " In answer to your inquiry I am glad to say the Hydraulic Ram you sent me iu November, 1875, is working exceedingly well, and gives no trouble. It will work when quite immersed, as it has 

 been several times during the floods this winter," forcing up water through a delivery pipe 900 yards loug, at the rate of 80,000 gallons per day, although you only promised 50,000." 



JOHN BLAKE, ENGINEER, ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND. 



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