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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,

OCTOBER TERM, 1922.

No. 278.

LAYNE & BOWLER CORPORATION, PETITIONER,

+ 98.

WESTERN WELL WORKS, INC.; ROTARY DRILLING AND

DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, STANLEY M. HALSTEAD,

ET AL.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT

OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT.

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[Endorsed]: 485-Eq. Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 2.

Filed Sept. 3, 1920. W.B. Maling, Clerk. By J. A.

Schaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No. 3627. United States Cireuit Court of Appeals

for the Ninth Cireuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921. F. D.

Monckton, Clerk.

Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 3.

CONTRACT.

THIS CONTRACT, made this first day of Octo-

ber, 1914, between THE LAYNE AND BOWLER

CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and

existing under and by virtue of the laws of the

STATE of California, and having its principal place

of business at Los Angeles, California, hereimafter

referred to as first party, and STANLEY M. HAL-

STEAD, of San Jose, California, and P.. E.

VAUGHAN, of Los Angeles, California, herein-

after referred to as second parties,

WITNESSETIHI:

WHEREAS the first) party is extensively en-

gaged in the manufacture, sale and use of certain

patented pumps, screens, and other appliances used

in the making and developing of wells throughout

California, Arizona and New Mexico, and

WHEREAS the second party, S. M. Halstead,

who has been heretofore employed by the first party

in various capacities, and the second party, P. E.

Vaughan, are desirous of starting up together in

a separate and independent business, contemplating

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the purchase of said patented pumps and screens

from the first party, and the subsequent use thereof

in the building, developing or equipping of wells, in

the manner and subject to the conditions herein-

after specified ,

NOW THEREFORE, the Parties Agree as fol-

lows:

PROVISIONS.

The first party agrees to sell to the second party,

its Sereens, Pumps and Parts of Pumps for the

purposes of repairs, replacement or extensions, and

the second parties agree to accept delivery thereof

fob. cars Los Angeles proper (not Los Angeles

Harbor). The second parties agree to pay therefor

according to first party’s list price at date of order,

less the special discounts below mentioned. The

first party, however, reserves the right to change its

list prices at any time and in any particular, with-

out notice, but after such time as the second par-

tics have actual notice of the change in first party’s

list price, the second parties shall be entitled to

make purchases hereunder to the amount of Five

Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars at the old list price.

The first party shall not be obliged to accept, on

any one day, orders from the second parties aggre-

gating more than Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dol-

lars.

For Pumps, the second parties agree to pay first

party’s list price at date when order is received by

first party, less the special discount of twenty-five

(25°C) per cent from said list prices. Such list

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prices shall, approximately, be the first party’s re-

tail selling price.

For Wire Wound Sereen, the second parties agree

to pay first party’s list price at date when order is

received by first party, less the special discounts

of fiftv (50 ) per cent and twenty-five (25°) per

cent from said list prices. Such list prices, less fifty

(50% ) per cent, shall, approximately, be first

party’s retail selling price.

For Shutter Screens, the second parties agree to

pay first party’s list price at date when order is re-

ceived by first party, less the special discounts of

twenty-five (25 ) per cent and twenty-five (25% )

per vent from said list prices. Such list prices,

less) twenty-five (25%) per cent, shall, approxi-

mately, be first party’s retail selling price.

The above clauses reading in effect that ‘Such

list prices shall, approximately, be first party’s re-

tail selling price,”* shall be construed as having been

inserted into this contract for the purpose of insur-

ing the second parties that first party will adhere

to its present policy of selling its pump at list when

it can, and its wire wound screens at list, less fifty

(50°7 ) per cent, when it can, and its shutter screens

at list less twenty-five (25° ) when it can, and when

the first party cannot sell at these prices, then to

sell as close to them as circumstances will admit.

Said clauses are also inserted into this contract for

the purpose of insuring the second parties that the

first party will act in good faith and will not arbi-

trarily change its list prices for the sole purpose

of closing the second parties off the market or of

deliberately handicapping or abridging the second

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vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 919

parties’ business contemplated hereunder. It is un-

derstood, however, that the first party’s ‘‘list price,”’

which is mentioned and referred to, and according

to which the second parties will pay less the dis-

counts mentioned, shall be its actual list price ae-

cording to the ordinary commercial meaning of this

term, and shall not be an average of its retail selling

prices, or anything else like that. Also, the above

quoted clauses shall not be construed as limiting

the first party to sell its pumps at list, or its wire

wound sereens at list less fifty (5067) per cent, or

its shutter screens at list less twenty-five (25° )

per cent. The first party never has sold exactly at

these prices, but has only endeavored to do so, and

has sold as close to them as the circumstances of

each particular case would admit, and it is not con-

templated by either party that the execution of this

contract shall require the first party to in anv way

change its policy concerning this relation between

its list prices and its retail selling prices.

The first party shall make delivery promptly, but

shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatever

caused by accidents, fires, strikes, civil or military

authority, or by insurrection or riot, or by any other

cause beyond first party’s control.

If the second parties contract with one of their

customers to furnish a pump, on condition that the

customer may return it to them if the well in which

it is to be installed does not furnish a specified

amount of water, or that the customer may return

it to them for any other reason previously stated

by the second parties to the first party ind accepted

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by the latter in writing, the second parties may state

such condition or reason, and the particular amount

of water specified, in their order for the pump from

the first party, and if this has been done and the

pump is returned to second parties on account of

the well not furnishing the amount of water speci-

fied or on account of any of the other reasons pre-

viously agreed to in writing with the first party

concerning that particular pump, then the second

parties shall have the right to return such pump to

the first party, provided it is delivered up at first

party’s factory in Los Angeles, free of all expense

to first party, within ninety (90) days from the time

when first party delivered it to second parties, un-

less the second parties have previously made special

arrangements in writing with the first party, ex-

tending the time within which that pump may be

returned. In event a pump is so returned, either

within the ninety days, or within the time period

covered by said special arrangements in writing,

the second parties shall be allowed credit on such

pump amounting to the invoice price thereof, less

One ($1.00) Dollar per foot for its total depth, but

this minimum deduction of credit on any one pump

shall be Fifty ($50.00) Dollars. However, if first

party’s expenses in putting said pump in re-salable

condition exceed the total deduction for credit com-

puted as above, then the minimum deduction shall

be first party’s actual expenses incurred in this re-

gard.

On the fifteenth day of November, 1914, and on

the fifteenth day of each and every month there-

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after, the second parties shall deliver to first party

a sixty (60) day, seven (7%) per cent note, signed

by both of the second parties, and of bankable form

satisfactory to the first party, covering all purchases

and other indebtedness of whatever kind or form

incurred by the second parties of the first part

throughout the preceding calendar month, and all

such notes shall be paid in cash at maturity. For

this purpose, all delivery of pumps f.o.b. cars Los

Angeles, as hereinbefore provided, shall be deemed

a purchase on the part of the second parties, even

tho the latter have a right to return the same under

the provisions herein. However, the total credit

Which the first party will extend to the second par-

ties, including all of the second parties’ notes, open

accounts, and all their other outstanding obligations

Whatever to first party, shall lie wholly within the

discretion of first party, which shall have the right

at any time to demand cash on delivery for further

purchases made by second parties hereunder. How-

ever, if such demand for cash is made, and the same

is paid upon delivery, the second parties shall be

entitled to an additional discount of five (5% ) per

cent from the cash due.

For the guidance of the second parties in estimat-

ing the total amount of credit which may be antici-

pated under this contract, it is hereby certified that

first party's Board of Directors has duly and for-

mally passed the following resolution :

RESOLVED: That, under the contract this

day authorized between this Corporation on the

one side and Stanley M. Halstead and P. E.

Vaughan on the other side, and contingent upon

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a satisfactory statement signed by said Hal-

stead and Vaughan, being delivered to first

party, and showing that their net assets, over

and above all their liabilities, reasonably amount

to Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars,

the Credit Department of this Corporation is

hereby authorized to extend such credit as in

its discretion may seem proper, but not to ex-

ceed Eleven Thousand ($11,000.00) Dollars,

unless authorization for credit in excess of this

amount is first obtained from the Board of

Directors. This total credit of Eleven Thou-

sand ($11,000.00) Dollars, shall include all

notes, open accounts, and outstanding indebted-

ness of any sort whatever, due this Corporation

under said contract, and also the indebtedness

now due or owing to this Corporation from

S. M. Halstead personally, but shall not include

any indebtedness whatever which may arise be-

tween S. M. Halstead and this Corporation

under the former’s contract to purchase the

well rig which has been heretofore delivered

to him, nor shall it include the indebtedness

which shall be incurred by the said S. M. Hal-

stead and P. E. Vaughan on account of their

taking over the automobiles or furnishings of

this Corporation now used in conjunction with

its San Francisco and San Jose offices. The tak-

ing over of said automobiles and furnishings,

if at all, shall be under separate contract which

shall provide the terms of payment.

In event the second parties send in any orders

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to be shipped them at points where there is no au-

thorized Railroad agent to collect the freight, and the

first party advances or prepays the freight thereon

for the second parties, the second parties agree to

remit in cash the amount of freight so advanced,

within ten (10) days from the date when first party

mails the second parties the freight bill covering

the same. Money which has been thus advanced on

freight shall not be left to go into the next sixty

(60) day note mentioned in Provision 3, but shall

be paid in accordance herewith. Also, it is under-

stood that delivery shall be deemed to have been

made by first party to second parties at Los Angeles

as hereinbefore provided, and that at this point re-

sponsibility for the shipment shall cease in the first

party.

In consideration of the foregoing provisions, the

second parties agree not to sell or use any other

pumps, screens or perforated casings of whatsoever

kind or form, in the building or equipping of wells,

except the patented pumps and screens purchased

of the first party in accordance herewith.

It is mutually understood that the second party

shall have the right to drill and equip wells com-

plete anywhere throughout the States of California,

Arizona, and New Mexico, provided the first party’s

pumps and screens are used exclusively throughout.

The second parties shall also have the right to sell

pumps for installation in wells drilled by other par-

ties in California, north of the Thirty-fifth (35)

Parallel, which line the parties agree to use as ex-

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actly demarking the so-called TEHACHAPI LINE

across California.

The second parties agree not to sell or furnish to

others, sereens delivered hereunder, for installation

in wells to be drilled by other parties in Arizona or

New Mexico, or in California south of the line just

mentioned, and the second parties also agree not to

sell or furnish pumps delivered hereunder, for in-

stallation in wells that other parties have drilled in

Arizona or New Mexico, or in California south of

said line. The second parties further guarantee that

such screens or pumps shall not be used or installed |

in violation of this provision, in Arizona or New

Mexico, or in California south of the line mentioned.

The second parties further guarantee that the pat-

ented pumps or screens furnished them hereunder,

shall not be resold or used outside of California,

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Arizona or New Mexico, unless the written license

or authority for such re-sale or use has been first ob-

tained from the party owning the patents thereon

in the place where such re-sale or use is made.

The second parties hereby acknowledge the valid-

ity of the following patents covering the above-men-

tioned Pumps and Screens, and which patents are

owned by the first party in and throughout Cali-

fornia, Arizona and New Mexico. The second par-

ties also acquiesce in, and agree to acquiesce in said

patents, throughout the life of each patent men- [

tioned. This provision embraces and applies to the |

following patents:

Patent No. 750,206, dated Jan. 19th, 1904, to M. E.

Layne, for Wire Winding Tool.

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vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 925

Patent No. 805,211, dated Nov. 21st, 1905, to M. E.

Layne, for Well Sereen.

Patent No. 806,416, dated Dec. 5th, 1905, to M. E.

Layne, for Screen Device.

Patent No. 820,507, dated May 15th, 1906, to M. E.

Layne, for Wire Winding Machine.

Patent No. 821,653, dated May 29th, 1906, to M. E.

Layne, for Well Mechanism.

Patent No. 1,001,655, dated Aug. 29th, 1911, to M. E.

Layne, for Well Strainer.

Patent No. 1,079,679, dated Nov. 25th, 1913, to J. A.

Wintroath, for Well Mechanism.

Patent No. (Re-issue) 13,467, dated Sept. 24th, 1912,

to M. E. Layne, for Well Mechanism.

Concerning the above patents which cover the

pump, the second parties agree that the term ‘‘en-

closed line shaft,”’ or the term ‘‘a closed casing sur-

rounding the pump shaft from the pump to the

top of the well,” ncans and embraces any pump

shaft for a deep well centrifugal pump, which is

surrounded by a casing extending substantially from

the pump to the top of the well and is provided

with bearing parts for the shaft along its length,

and which casing is sufficiently closed to allow the

feeding of a lubricating fluid down thru said cas-

ing to the various bearing parts for the shaft

therein.

The second parties agree not to sell or use any of

the patented screens furnished hereunder, for use

in oil wells or in any other kind of wells except

water wells, and the second parties guarantee that

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such screens shall not eventually be used in oil wells

in violation of this provision.

The second parties enter upon this contract jointly

and severally, and agree to be bound jointly and

severally by each of its provisions. Furthermore,

for the purposes of this contract, and for the giving

of orders, the receiving of notices, and for the doing

of anything which may arise in connection herewith,

each of the second parties hereby appoints the other

as his agent, so that both of them shall become

jointly and severally bound by the acts or agree-

ments of either in the course hereof, the same as

tho they were partners.

10.

This contract shall not be assignable by the second

parties, or either of them, unless the second parties

first obtain the first party’s written assent thereto,

duly executed under the authority of the first

party’s Board of Directors.

EL.

It is a specific condition, and part of the consider-

ation, upon which the first party enters upon this

contract, that the second parties shall abide strictly

in each and every guarantee, condition, provision

and part of a provision, contained throughout this

contract, and any violation whatever of any such

guarantee, condition, provision or part of a provi-

sion, shall entitle the first party to revoke and can-

cel this contract entirely, so that no business shall

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thenceforth be done hereunder. In order to so

cancel or revoke this contract, however, the first

party shall give notice to that effect by registered

letter mailed and addressed to either of the second

parties at their last known address, within thirty

(30) days from the time when first party first obtained

knowledge of the breach or violation, and if such

notice is not served within said thirty (30) days,

the first party shall be deemed to have waived right

to cancel or revoke this contract on account of that

particular breach or violation. Upon the giving of

such notice, the cancellation and revocation of this

contract shall be immediate and complete, and no

procedure whatever, either in law or equity, shall

be required on the part of the first party, in order

to cause such cancellation or revokation to take

effect. If the contract is canceled or revoked, how-

ever, the same shall not effect or change in any man-

ner, any liabilities previously created hereunder on

either side.

12.

The life of this contract shall be for four vears

from the date hereof.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF the parties have

caused these presents to be executed in duplicate,

the day and year first above written, the first party

signing its corporate name and affixing its seal thru

its President and Secretary, thereunto duly author-

opening

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ized by its Board of Directors by resolution passed

on the 7th day of October, 1914.

THE LAYNE AND BOWLER CORPORA-

TION,

By P. D. BOWLER,

President.

[ Corporate Seal ] By W. E. BOWLER,

Secretary,

First Party.

S. M. HALSTEAD,

P. KE. VAUGHAN,

Second Parties.

[ Endorsed]: No. 485—Equity. Layne & Bowler

Corpn. vs. Western Well Works et al. Plaintiff’s

Exhibit No. 3. Filed Sept. 3, 1920. W. B. Maling,

Clerk. By J. A. Schaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No. 3627. United States Circuit Court of Appeals

for the Ninth Cireuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921. F. D.

Monckton, Clerk.

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Defendants’ Exhibit ‘‘A-1.’’

[Endorsed]: In the United States District Court,

Northern District of California, Southern Division.

In Equity—No, 485. Layne & Bowler Corporation,

Plaintiff, vs. Western Well Works, Inc., a Corpora-

tion, et al., Defendants. Defendants’ Exhibit

“A-1."’ Hattie B. Lehman, Notary Public.

Filed Sep. 2, 1920. W. B. Maling, Clerk. By J.

A. Schaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No, 3627. United States Cireuit Court of Ap-

peals for the Ninth Cireuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921. F.

D. Monckton, Clerk.

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PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903.

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MEANS FOR ALINING PUMP SHAFTS IN WELL CASINGS.

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Patented August 11, 1903,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WATSON ALVORD,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MEANS FOR ALINING PUMP-SHAFTS IN WELL-CASINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,690, dated August 11, 1903,

Application filed November 17, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JouN Watson ALVoRD,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi-

cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi-

nois, have invented certain new and useful

Improvements in Means for Alining Pump-

Shafts in Well-Casings; and I do declare the

following to be a full, clear, and exact de-

scription of the invention, such as will enable

others skilled in the art to which it appertains

to make and use the same, reference being

had to the accompanying drawings, and to

the figures of reference marked thereon,

which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to rotary pumps for

deep wells; and its object is to provide means

for automatically alining the pump-shaft.

The easing of a deep well, by which T mean

a well having a depth of one hundred feet or

more, is usually slightly erooked or sinuous,

so that the shaft of a rotary pump located at

or near the bottom of the well will not be

equidistant from the casing throughout its

entire length, but will be nearer to one side

of the casing or the other at different points.

It is of course necessary for the shaft to be

absolutely straight in order to reduce the

friction of the bearings toa minimum, My

invention aims to keep the shaft perfectly

straight, and yet support it rigidly in the

easing by automatic alining devices.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is

a longitudinal section of a portion of a well-

casing, pump-shaft, and shaft-tube, with a

shaft-bearing and a self-alining support for

the tube. Figs. 2 and 3 are cross-sections at

the lines 2 2 3 3, respectively, on a slightly

larger scale. Fig. 4 is a cross-section at the

line 4 4 on a still larger seale and showing

the tube eecentric to the casing. Fig. 5 is a

cross-section on the same seale at the line 55,

showing the tube and casing concentric.

The well-casing 1 is a metal pipe of suit-

able diameter and circular in cross-section.

It may or may not be perfectly straight

throughout its entire length. The rotary

pump (not shown) is located at the bottom of

the well and is driven by a vertical shaft 2,

rotated by any suitable means. (Not shown.)

The shaft is made in suitable lengths united

by rigid couplings, comprising, preferably, a

sleeve 3, fitting the reduced ends 4 of the

Serial No. 131,663. (No model.)

shaft-sections, and fastened by the transverse

keys 5 and cotters 6. The shaft is inclosed

in a shaft-tube 7, made in suitable lengths §

coupled together and considerably less in di-

ameter than the well-casing, so as to leave an

annular space & between them for the water

to flow up through. At suitable points in

the tube are bearings for the shaft, consist- 6

ing, preferably, of a bushing 9, rigidly secured

in the tube, as by the screw-threads shown,

and slightly tapered internally. Segmental

carriers 10 are placed in the bushing, having

flanges 11 12 at each end to confine the seg: &

mental bearing-blocks 13, which are prefer-

ably made of lignum-vite and fit the shaft

Ad justing-screws 14 are swiveled in

the flanges 1] and mesh with tapped holes in

lugs 15 on the adjacent end of the bushing, 7

so by turning the screws the carriers and

their blocks can be slid lengthwise in the

tapering bushing, and thus be set. in or out

to fit the shaft, The heads of the screws

are accessible through holes in the tube.

Hinged to the outside of the shaft-tube, at

points adjacent to the upper end of the sleeve

3, are a plurality of braces 16, preferably

sharpened along their under edges to reduce

the resistance to the rising column of water. $

The braces extend upwardly, and as each

brace is independently hinged it will natu-

rally fall outward in a radial plane until its

end rests against the inside of the well-cas

ing. If the shaft-tube happens to be eecet

tric to the easing at that point, as shown in

Fig. 4, the braces will stand at different an-

gles. Means are provided for locking each

brace independently in whatsoever position —

it assumes, so that the tube will be rigidly %

supported in the easing whether it is com

centrie or eecentrie therewith. The locking

deviee which I prefer consists of a wedge

or chock 17, preferably forked and fitting —

against the outside of the shaft tube and hav: $

ing a shank IS sliding in a longitudinal slot

19 in said tube behind the brace. Inside the

tube is a segmental weight 20, fastened to the

shank and causing the chock to drop until it

wedges in the angular space between the tube !

and the back of the brace. In this positon

of the chock the brace is rigidly held against

inward movement, and the codperation ©

the several braces supports the tube firmly

closely,

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against any lateral displacement. To release

the braces when the tube is to be raised or

jowered in the casing, the shaft is so con-

structed and arranged as to be capable of an

jupward lengthwise movement sufficient to

bring the upper end of the sleeve 3 against

the lower ends of the segmental weights 20

and lift them and the chocks, thus unlocking

the braces and leaving them free to move in

) and out as they slide up or down in the casing

with the tube. When said tube has been re-

located, the shaft is dropped, and the chocks

again fall into place and lock the braces in

whatsoever position they may happen to be.

5 It is thus evident that my invention pro-

vides means for automatically alining a

pump-shaft in a well-casing whether the lat-

| ter is straight or crooked.

It will be understood that a plurality of

sing devices and locking and unlocking

means will be provided, according to the

length of the shaft.

Having thus described my invention, what

T claim is—

1. The combination with a well-casing, of

a straight rotary pump-shaft therein, and a

plurality of independent, automatic adjust-

ing devices located between the shaft and

the casing, whereby said shaft is automati-

cally braced in proper alinement irrespee-

tive of any deviation of said casing from

a straight line.

2. The combination with a well-casing, of

a straight rotary pump-shaft therein, bear-

ings for said shaft, and a plurality of auto-

matic, inlependently-adjustable devices serv-

ing to brace said bearings automatically in

proper alinement in said casing, irrespective

of any deviation of said casing from a

straight line.

3. The combination with a well-casing, of

a straight rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube

inclosing said shaft, bearings in said tube,

and a plurality of automatic, independently-

adjustable devices between said tube and

casing, whereby the former is automatically

braced in proper alinement irrespective of

rd deviations of the latter from a straight

ine,

4. The combination with a well-easing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inelos-

ing said shaft, bearings in said tube, braces

between said tube and casing, and means

fer adjusting said braces independently of

each other. :

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5. The combination with a well-casing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inclos-

ing said shaft, bearings in said tube,

braces between said tube and casing, and

means for adjusting and locking each brace

independently.

6. The combination with a well-casing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inclosing

said shaft, bearings for said shaft, braces

between said tube and easing, means for lock-

ing each brace independently, and means for

unlocking said braces simultaneously.

7. The combination with a well-easing, of

arotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inclosing

said shaft, bearings in said tube, braces

hinged to said tube, and means for locking

said braces.

&. The combination with a well-casing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inclos-

ing said shaft, bearings in said tube, braces 7

hinged to said tube, and a chock for wedg-

ing each brace,

9, The combination with a well-casing of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inelos-

ing said shaft, bearings in said tube, braces

hinged to said tube, a choek for wedging each

brace, and means for lifting said chocks.

10. The combination with a well-casing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inclos-

ing said shaft, bearings in said tube, braces

hinged to said tube, and a chock for each

brace having a shank projecting into said

tube and adapted to be lifted by an upward

movement of the pump-shaft.

11. The combination with a well-easing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein, a tube inclosing

said shaft, bearings in said tube, braces

hinged to said tube, a chock for wedging

each brace having a shank projecting into

said tube, and a weight secured to said shank.

12. The combination with a well-casing, of

a rotary pump-shaft therein having a sleeve

thereon, a tube inclosing said shaft and hav-

ing longitudinal slots therein, braces hinged

to said tube, a chock for wedging each

brace having a shank projecting through a

slot, and a weight secured to said shank

inside said tube and adapted to be lifted

by said sleeve when said shaft is lifted.

In testimony whereof I affix my signa-

ture in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WATSON ALVORD.

Witnesses :

Ropert O. HARPER.

Frep G, WILBER.

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934 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

Defendants’ Exhibit ‘‘A-2.”’

[Endorsed]: In the United States District Court,

Northern District of California, Southern Division.

In Equity—No. 485. Lavne & Bowler Corporation,

Plaintiff, vs. Western Well Works, Inc., a Corpora-

tion, et al., Defendants. Defendants’ Exhibit A-2.

Hattie B. Lehman, Notary Public.

Filed Sep. 2, 1920. W. B. Maling, Clerk. By

J. A. Schaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No, 3627. United States Circuit Court of Appeals

for the Ninth Cireuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921. EF. D.

Monckton, Clerk.

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 935

Ho. 735,631. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903.

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Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Patented August 11, 1903

HIGH-SPEED

To all whom it may concern:

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi

cago, in the county of Cook and State of Ili

nois, have invented certain new and usefu

and I do declare the following to be a full

clear, and exact description of the invention

to which it appertains to make and use the

panying drawing, and to the

reference marked thereon,

part of this specification.

This invention relates

figures

more in depth. In such wells the pump is lo-

cated far below the surface of the ground and

rotates in a horizontal plane, the shaft ex-

tending to the surface, where it is connected

to a suitable motor, The weight of this up-

right shaft and the other rotating parts, to-

gether with the superimposed water column,

is very great, and it is a serious problem to

guide and support the shaft. In another ap-

plication recently filed I have set forth means

for maintaining such a shaft in proper aline-

ment. The present invention has to do with

the supporting of the superimposed water

column, the shaft, and other rotating parts.

It has been proposed to balance the weight

of such shafts and superimposed water col-

umn by the pressure of the water column in

the uptake or delivery pipe.

My invention consists in certain novel con-

structions and arrangements of parts where-

by this result can be effectively accomplished

and automatically regulated. The shaft is

journaled in bearings which permit it to have

a certain amount of lengthwise play. Secured

to the shaft is one or more pistons, which

fits or fit in a cylindrical portion or portions

of the stationary pump-casing and each forms

one end of achamber. The under side of the

piston is exposed to the pressure of the water

column in the uptake, while its upper side is

subjected to the pressure in the chamber.

There is an outlet from the chamber to the

suction side of the pump, and this outlet is

JOHN WATSON ALVORD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,691, dated August 11, 193

Application filed December 24, 1902.

Be it known that I, JoHN Watson ALVORD,

Improvements in High-Speed Rotary Pumps;

such as will enable others skilled in the art

same, reference being had to the aeccom-

which forms a

centrifugal

pumps, and especially to those that are run at

high speeds and lift water from deep wells,

by which I mean wells a hundred feet or

ROTARY PUMP.

Serial No. 136,465. (No model.)

closing gradually as the shaft rises and

opening when it falls, As there is a constant

smal] leakage past the piston into the cham. §

ber, the pressure in said chamber tends to

gradually inerease, thus lessening the effect-

ive upward pressure on the under side of the

piston. The shaft therefore moves slowly

downward until it causes the outlet to open #

and relieve the pressure in the ehember,

whereupon the fall of the shaft is checked.

Thus by a series of constant adjustments

and readjustments of the relative pressures

on the two sides of the piston the differential §

pressure tending to lift the shaft is kept ap

proximately constant, so that the shaft re

mains floating on the water column in sub-

stantially a constant position irrespective of

the fluctuations in the actual pressure of 7!

the water column.

This invention is applicable to pumps

having a great variety of impellers and can

be carried out in many different ways. The

accompanying drawing illustrates one mode %

of applying it to a rotary pump having a

plain serew-impeller, the view being a

longitudinal section of the pump.

The easing of the pump is made in sections,

the lower section 1 being cylindrical to snugly #

inclose the impeller, which has a conical body

2 and helical blades 3, by means of which the

water is given an upward motion when the

impeller is rotated. The section 1 has de-

pending arms 4, supporting the lower bear §

ing 5 for the impeller-shaft 6. This section

also has a flange 7, on which is mounted the

preferably eylindrical body-section 8 by

means of the flanges 9 and bolts 10, The up-

per section 11 is preferably conical and is ¥

fastened to the top of the body-section 8 and

also to the lower end of the uptake or de

livery pipe 12, preferably by the flanges and

bolts shown. The body-section has a con

centric inner shell 13, preferably united with %

the outer shel] by radial webs 14, cast inte-

gral with both shells, The inner shell is pro-

vided at each end with a head, the upper one

15 carrying a bearing 16 for the impeller-shaft

and also supporting the lower end of the 1!

shaft-casing 17. The lower head 18 has a bear-

ing 19 for the impeller-shaft and also a cylin-

drical flange 20, inclosing a piston 21, on said

controlled by the lengthwise play of the shaft,

shaft just above the body of the impeller and

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation.

735,691

said body.

9»

htly less in diameter than

jway’ of the inner shell is a diaphragm =+

shiclh is a bearing 23 for the shaft 6. This

phragm divides the shell into two cham-

s, in each of which is a piston 24, secured

the shaft 6 and fitting the inside of the

I Below each piston one or more holes

are made in the shell, preferably by drill-

through both shells, the holes in the outer

Il being afterward closed by screw-plugs

It is evident that more than two cham-

rand pistons may be used, if desired.

The impeller-shaft 6 is tubular, its lower end

ing cllosed by a screw-plug 27, while its up-

rend! is closed by the inwardly-projecting

ser omd of the pump-shaft 28, which fits in

9 shaft 6 and is secured thereto by trans-

rse pins 29, The pump-shaft is preferably

lid to give a maximum torsional strength.

ts 30 are cut at suitable points in the im-

Jler-smaft just below the lower bearing 5

14 the bearings 26, 19, amd 23.

The operation of the pump is as follows:

he impeller is rotated at high speed and

ees the water up through the annular space

tween the outer and inner shells of the

oly-seetion S of the easing. The water

ases freely through the holes 25, and the

ressure due to the weight of the rising Wa-

column in the uptake-pipe is thus trans-

‘itted to the under side of the pistons 24.

iy properly proportioning the area and num-

erof said pistons to the total weight of the

stating parts and the superimposed water

olumn said weight can be balanced by the

ift on the pistons. Hence no step-bearing

srequired for the shaft. There isa little leak-

we of water past the pistons into the cham-

ers above them, and this water in time fills

he chambers. In order to prevent it from |

quiring a pressure equal to that on the un- |

ler side of the pistons, and thus neutraliz-

ing the lifting

ports 30 are so arranged with reference to the

tationary shaft-bearings that when the pres-

sure in the chambers reaches a_ predeter-

mined limit the consequent drop of the shaft |

vill bring said ports below said bearings.

thus permitting the water in the chambers

to enter the tubular shaft and eseape through

the lower ports into the well on the suction

side of the impeller. By closing the lower

end of the shaft and providing the lower set

of port’ ? form an intermediate chamber be-

tween ce casing and the well, and thus pre

vent too sudden changes of pressure in the

chambers; but as soon as sufficient water has

escaped to permit the resultant increased

pressure on the under side of the piston to

lift the pistons and shaft the ports will be

closed and the equilibrium reéstablished,

The shaft, pistons, and impeller thus have a

constant slight motion up and down as these

adjustments of pressure occur. Tt will be

noticed that they are independent of the ac-

tual pressure in pounds per square inch,

effect of the water column, the j an upright

ferential pressure on the under side of the

piston and not to the actual pressure of the

water column, It will also be noticed that 70

by means of the piston 2] and its chamber

and escape-ports the area of the impeller sub-

jected to a downward pressure is no greater

than that of its blades and that this is par-

tially balanced by the upward pressure of 75

the water column on so much of the conical

body of the impeller as lies above the blades.

lam aware that it has been proposed to

provide the shaft of a rotary pump with a

balancing piston and to utilize the water leak- 80

ing past said piston to lubricate the adjacent

shaft-bearing; but my invention aims to util-

ize the leakage to set up a differential pres-

sure on the under side of the piston, so as to

automatically balance the rotating parts ir- $5

respective of the height of the water col-

umn—a result not possible in the aforesaid

proposed construction.

I claim—

1. In a rotary pump, the combination with 90

an upright axially-movable shaft, of a bal-

ancing-piston secured thereto and having its

under side exposed to the pressure of the

water column, a stationary easing containing

a chamber above said piston, and means con

trolled by the axial movement of the shaft

for permitting the escape of water from said

chamber to the suction side of the pump, and

thus regulating the pressure in said chamber,

2, Ina rotary pump, the combination with 1

an upright axially-movable shaft, of a sta

tionary casing containing a chamber concen

trie with said shaft and having means to ad-

mit the pressure of the water column in the

uptake, a piston seeured to said shaft and 1

fitting the walls of said chamber, and eseape-

ports above said piston controlled by the

axial movement of said shaft.

3. Ina retary pump, the combination with

axially-movable tubular shaft, of 1

a stationary casing eontaining a chamber

concentric with said shaft and having holes in

its walls, a piston secured to said shaft and

fitting the walls of said chamber above said

holes, and eseape-ports in said shaft above 1

said pistons,

4. Ina rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable tubular shaft, of

a stationary casing comprising two coneen-

trie shells, the inner one being closed at the

top and bottom and having holes in its walls,

one or more pistons in said inner shell above

said holes and secured to said shaft, and es-

cape-ports in said shaft above said pistons,

controlled by the axial movement of said 1

shaft.

5. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable tubular shaft, of

a stationary casing, comprising two concen-

tric shells, the inner one having a diaphragm

and provided with holes in its walls above

and below said diaphragm, heads closing the

top and bottom of said inner shell, shaft-bear-

since the balancing effect is due to the dif-

ings in said heads and diaphragm, pistons

93 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

735,691 :

secured to said shaft above said holes, and

escape-ports in’said shaft adjacent to the

lower ends of said bearings.

6. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an axially-movable tubular shaft having its

lower end closed and provided with ports, of

a bearing adjacent to and above said ports,

a balancing-piston secured to said shaft and

having its under side exposed to the pressure

of the water column, a stationary casing con-

taining a chamber for said piston, and means

for putting said chamber in communication

with the interior of said shaft when the re-

sultant pressure on the under side of the pis-

ton falls below a predetermined limit.

7. In a rotary pump, the combination with

a stationary casing comprising two concen

tric shells, of a shaft concentric with said

shells, an impeller on the shaft having a con-

ical body carrying a piston fitting a chamber

at the lower end of the inner shell, means for

permitting the escape of leakage-water fnz

said chamber to the suction side of the pum

and a balancing-piston in the inner shell e

posed underneath to the pressure of the wate

column and above to the pressure in a chan

ber in said shell.

8. In a rotary pump, the combination wit

a stationary pump-casing, of an impeller, it

shaft, a balancing-piston secured on the shaf

a easing surrounding said piston and con

municating below the piston with the uptake

and means for automatically regulating th

pressure on the top of the piston, whereby

the differential pressure on its under sid

will remain substantially constant.

In testimony whereof I affix my signatur

in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WATSON ALVORD.

Witnesses :

ARTHUR MCLEAN,

Cuas. B. Burpick.

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No. 735,691,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WATSON ALVORD,

HIGH-SPEED ROTARY PUMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters

Application filed December 24, 1902,

To all who mit may concern:

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi-

Beit known that I, JOHN WATSON ALVORD, |

cago, in the County of Cook and State of Lli- |

5 nois, 1ave invented certain new and useful | gradually increase, thus lessening the effeet-

Improvements in High-Speed Rotary Pumps;

and I do declare the following to be a ful},

clear, ind exact description of the invention,

such is will enable others skilled in the art

to whch it appertains to make and use the

same, reference being had to the aceompany-

ing dmwing, and to the figures of reference

markel thereon, which forms a part of this |

specification.

This invention relates to centrifugal |

pumps, and especially to those that are run at |

high speeds and lift water from deep wells,

by which I mean wells a hundred feet or

more in depth. In such wells the pump is lo-

eated far below the surface of the ground and

rotates in a horizontal plane, the shaft ex-

tending to the surface, where it is connected

to a siitable motor. The weight of this up-

right shaft and the other rotating parts, to-

gether with the superimposed water column,

is very great, and it is a serious problem to

guide and support the shaft. In another ap-

plication recently filed I have set forth means

for maintaining such a shaft in proper aline-

ment. The present invention has to do with

the supporting of the superimposed water

column, the shaft, and other rotating parts.

It his been proposed to balance the weight

of such shafts and superimposed water col-

umn by the pressure of the water column in |

the uptake or delivery pipe.

My invention consists in certain novel con-

structions and arrangements of part, whereby |

this result can be effectively accomplished |

and artomatically regulated. The shaft is

journaled in bearings which permit it to have

a certain amount of lengthwise play, Secured

to the shaft is one or more pistons, which

fits or fit in a cylindrical portion or portions

of the stationary pump-casing and each forms

one enl of a chamber. The under side of the

piston is exposed to the pressure of the water

columr in the uptake, while its upper side is

subjeced to the pressure in the chamber.

There is an outlet from the chamber to the

suctior side of the pump, and this outlet is

Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

controlled by the lengthwise play of the shaft,

Patented August 11, 1903,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

Patent No. 735,691, dated August 11, 1903,

Serial No, 136,465. (No model.)

closing gradually as the shaft rises and open-

ing when it falls. As there is a constant

small leakage past the piston into the cham- %

ber, the pressure in said chamber tends to

ive upward pressure on the under side of the

piston, The shaft therefore moves slowly

downward until it causes the outlet to open

and relieve the pressure in the chamber,

whereupon the fall of the shaft is checked.

Thus by a series of constant adjustments

and readjustments of the relative pressures

on the two sides of the piston the differential 6

pressure tending to lift the shaft is kept ap-

proximately constant, so that the shaft re

mains floating on the water column in sub-

stantially a constant position irrespective of

the fluctuations in the actual pressure of the 7!

water column,

This invention is applicable to pumps hay-

ing a great variety of impellers and can be

carried out in many different ways. The

accompanying drawing illustrates one mode 1

of applying it to a rotary pump having a

plain secrew-impeller, the view being a

longitudinal seetion of the pump.

The casing of the pump is made in sections,

the lower section 1 being cylindrical to snugly §

inclose the impeller, which has a conical body

2 and helical blades 3, by means of whieh the

water is given an upward motion when the

impeller is rotated. The section 1 has de

vending arms 4, supporting the lower bear §

ing 5 for the impeller-shaft 6. This section

also has a flange 7 mounted the

7, on which is

preferably cylindrical body-section 8 by

means of the flanges 9 and bolts 10, The up:

ner section 11 is preferably conical, and is ®

fastened to the top of the body section 8 and

also to the lower end of the uptake or de-

livery pipe 12, preferably by the flanges and

bolts shown, The body-seetion has acon

centric inner shell 13,’‘preferably united with §

the outer shell by radial webs 14, cast inte

gral with both shells. The inner shell is pro

vided at each end with a head, the upper oie

15 carrying a bearing 16 for the impeller-shaft

andalsosupportingthe lower end of the shaft: |

casing 17, The lower head 18 has a bearing

19 for the impeller-shaft and also a cylin:

drieal flange 20, inclosing a piston 21, on sal

shaft just above the body of the impeller and

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735,691

btly less in diameter than said body.

way of the inner shell is a diaphragm 22,

shich is a bearing 23 for the shaft 6. This

h divides the shell into two cham-

phragm Myeige . ‘

in each of which is a piston 24, secured

the shaft 6 and fitting the inside of the

|, Below each piston one or more holes

are made in the shell, preferably by drill-

‘through both shells, the holes in the outer

I) being afterward closed by screw-plugs

It is evident that more than two cham-

sand pistons may be used, if desired,

The impeller-shaft 6 is tubular, its lower end

ng closed by a serew-plug 27, while its up-

end is closed by the inwardly-projecting

rer end of the pump-shaft 28, which fits in

. shaft 6 and is secured thereto by trans-

se pins 29, The pump-shaft is preferably

id to give a maximum torsional strength.

rts 30 are cut at suitable points in the im-

ller-shaft just below the lower bearing 5

d the bearings 16, 19, and 23,

The operation of the pump is as follows:

e impeller is rotated at high speed and

rees the water up through the annular space

tween the outer and inner shells of the

dy-section 8 of the casing. The water

sses freely through the holes 25, and the

essure due to the weight of the rising wa-

rcolumn in the uptake-pipe is thus trans-

itted to the under side of the pistons 24.

y properly proportioning the area and num-

tof said pistons to the total weight of the

tating parts and the superimposed water

lumn said weight can be balanced by the

ft on the pistons. Hence no step-bearing

required for the shaft. There is a little leak-

ge of water past the pistons into the cham-

rs above them, and this water in time fills

ve chambers. In order to prevent it from

quiring a pressure equal to that on the un-

er side of the pistons, and thus neutraliz-

ig the lifting effect of the water column, the

orts 30 are so arranged with reference to the

lationary shaft-bearings that when the pres-

wre in the chambers reaches a predeter-

tined limit the consequent drop of the shaft

ill bring said ports below said bearings,

hus permitting the water in the chambers

denter the tubular shaft and escape through

he lower ports into the well on the suction

ile of the impeller. By closing the lower

al of the shaft and providing the lower set

f ports I form an intermediate chamber be-

Ween the casing and the well, and thus pre-

tnt too sudden changes of pressure in the

tambers; but as soon as sufficient water has

saped to permit the resultant increased

ressure on the under side of the piston to

ift the pistons and shaft the ports will be

and the equilibrium — reésti.blished.

¢ shaft, pistons, and impeller thus have a

onstant slight motion up and down as these

djustments of pressure occur. It will be

otieed that they are independent of the ac-

tal pressure in pounds per square inch,

ince the balancing effect is due to the dif-

ferential pressure on the under side of the

piston and not to the actual pressure of the

water column, It will also be noticed that

by means of the piston 21 and its chamber

and escape-ports the area of the impeller sub-

jected to a downward pressure is no greater

than that of its blades and that this is par-

tially balaneed by the upward pressure of

the water column on so much of the conical

body of the impeller as lies above the blades.

I am aware that it has been proposed to

provide the shaft of a rotary pump with a

balanecing-piston and to utilize the water leak-

ing past said piston to lubricate the adjacent

shaft-bearing; but my invention aims to util-

ize the leakage to set up a differential pres-

sure on the under side of the piston, so as to

automatically balance the rotating parts irre-

spective of the height of the water column—a

result not possible in the aforesaid proposed

construction,

I claim—

1. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable shaft, of a bal-

ancing-piston secured thereto and having its

under side exposed to the pressure of the

water column, a stationary casing containing

a chamber above said piston, and means con-

trolled by the axial movement of the shaft

for permitting the escape of water from said

chamber to the suction side of the pump, and

thus regulating the pressure in said chamber.

2. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable shaft, of a sta-

tionary casing containing a chamber concen-

tric with said shaft and having means to ad-

mit the pressure of the water column in the

uptake, a piston seeured to said shaft and

fitting the walls of said chamber, and escape-

ports above said piston controlled by the ax-

ial movement of said shaft.

3. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable tubular shaft, of

a stationary casing containing a chamber con-

centrie with said shaft and having holes in

its walls, a piston secured to said shaft and

fitting the walls of said chamber above said

holes, and escape-ports in said shaft above

said pistons,

4, Ina rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable tubular shaft, of

a stationary casing comprising two concen-

tric shells, the inner one being closed at the

top and bottom and having holes in its walls,

one or more pistons in said inner shell above

said holes and secured to said shaft, and es-

cape-ports in said shaft above said pistons,

controlled by the axial movement of said

shaft.

5. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an upright axially-movable tubular shaft, of

a stationary casing comprising two concen-

trie shells, the inner one having a diaphragm

and provided with holes in its walls above

and below said diaphragm, heads closing the

top and bottom of said inner shell, shaft-bear-

ings in said heads and diaphragm, pistons

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and

the

secured to said shaft above said holes,

escape-ports in said shaft adjacent to

lower ends of said bearings.

6. In a rotary pump, the combination with

5 an axially-movable tubular shaft having its

lower end closed and provided with ports of

a bearing adjacent to and above said ports,

a balancing-piston secured to said shaft and

having its under side exposed to the pressure

of the water column, a stationary casing ¢on-

taining a chamber for said piston, and means

for putting said chamber in communication

with the interior of said shaft when the re-

sultant pressure on the under side of the pis-

ton falls below a predetermined limit.

7. In a rotary pump, the combination with

a stationary casing comprising two concen-

tric shells, of a shaft concentric with said

shells, an impeller on the shaft having a con-

ieal body carrying a piston fitting a chamber

at the lower end of the inner shell, means for

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permitting the escape of leakage-water fro

said chamber to the suction side of the pump,

and a balancing-piston in the inner shell ex:

posed underneath to the pressure of the water

column and above to the pressure in a cham-

ber in said shell,

8. In a rotary pump, the combination with

a stationary pump-casing, of an impeller, its

shaft, a balancing-piston secured on the shaft,

a easing surrounding said piston and com

municating below the piston with the uptake,

and means for automatically regulating th

pressure on the top of the piston, whereby

the differential pressure on its under side

will remain substantially constant.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature

in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WATSON ALVORD.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR MCLEAN,

Cuas. B, BuRDICK.

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 943

Defendants’ Exhibit ‘‘A-3.’’

[Endorsed]: In the United States District Court,

Northern District of California, Southern Division.

In Equity—No. 485. Layne & Bowler Corporation,

Plaintiff, vs. Wester Well Works, Inc., a Corpora-

tion, et al. Defendants. Defendants’ Exhibit

“A-3.°? Hattie B. Lehman, Notary Public.

Filed Sep. 2, 1920. W. B. Maling Clerk. By

J. A. Schaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No. 3627. United States Cireuit Court of Appeals

for the Ninth Circuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921. F. D.

Monckton, Clerk.

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HIGH SPEED ROTARY PUMP.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 30. 1903

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vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 951

No. 735,692. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903.

J. W. ALVORD.

HIGH SPEED ROTARY PUMP.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB. 30. 1903.

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No. 735,692. Patented August 11, 1903

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WATSON ALVORD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HIGH-SPEED ROTARY PUMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,692, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed March 30, 1903. Serial No. 150,184. (No model.)

0 all whom it may concern: mined limit, the impeller and shaft will dre :

Be it known that I, JouN WATSON ALVORD, | slightly, thereby opening an eseape-port az

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi- | relieving any excess of pressure in the ¢

eago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi- | ber, so as to keep the differential balaneig

nois, have invented certain new and useful | pressure at about the same point at all tims

Improvements in High-Speed Rotary Pumps; | irrespective of the fluetuations in the aetul

and I do declare the following to be a full, pressure of the water column. In anotbe

clear, and exact deseription of the invention, | form of impeller the water column is not com

such as will enable others skilled in the art] pletely reversed, but is diverted from an up

to which it appertains to make and use the} right longitudinal direction in the casing »

same, reference being had to the accompany-|a_radially-lateral direetion while passizg

ing drawings, and to the figures of reference | through the impeller and is then turned up

marked thereon, which forms a part of this | ward again through the upper part of th

specification. easing. This impeller is provided with th

This invention relates to high-speed rotary | same balancing-chamber and escape-pors

pumps for deep wells, by which I mean wells | automatically controlled by the rise and fal

a hundred feet or more in depth. In such] of the impeller as have been described it

wells the rotary pump is located far below | connection with the reversing-impeller.

the surface of the ground, being operated by It will be readily understood that. othe

an upright shaft rising to the surface ani | forms of impeller may be employed, but ther

there driven by some suitable motor. In] must be such as to produce an upward by

deep wells the weight of this long shaft and | drostatie pressure on the under side of th

its attached parts is very great, and many | impeller, and this must be partially balane

schemes have been proposed for supporting | by leakage-pressure in a chamber controll!

it or for counterbalancing it. by the longitudinal movement of the iz

My invention relates to that mode of coun- | peller due to the slight variations in the dif

terbalancing which utilizes the hydrostatic | ferential pressure.

pressure of the rising column of water in the In the accompanying drawings, Figure 118

uptake or delivery-pipe of the pump. In or-}| a longitudinal section of the reversing-it

der to cause this column to exert a lifting | peller and its easing. Fig. 2 is a bottom

effect upon the shaft and its attached parts, | plan view of the impeller. Fig. 3 is at

I so construct the impeller that the water] plan view of the same. Figs. 4, 5, 6, and!

eolumn is reversed in direction in passing | are diametrical sections of the same on th

through the impeller, so that at the point | correspondingly-numbered lines in Fig. *

where the water leaves the impeller it is flow-) Fig. & is a side elevation of said impelle

ing downward, being subsequently reversed | Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a developmet!

again in passing through the impeller-casing, | of the web and flange-wall of the impeller

> so as to thereafter pursue an upward course | Fig. 10 is a top plan view of the lower s&

into the uptake. The hydrostatic reaction | tion of the easing. Figs, 11, 12, 13, 14 ih)

on the impeller at the point of delivery there- | and 16 are radial sections of the same on thé

from is sufficient to lift and sustain all the | correspondingly-numbered lines in Fig. 1

rotating parts. In order to automatically | Fig. 17 is a top plan view of the upper s*

regulate the lifting effect within predeter-| tion of the casing. Fig. 18 is a side elev®

mined limits, so as to maintain the shaft and] tion of the gland for the stuffing-box on 4

impeller in substantially the same position | larger scale. Fig. 19 is a diametrical sectiot

while running, I provide above the impeller | of the same. Fig. 20 is a bottom plan vieF

a chamber into which the water under pres- | of the same, Fig, 21 is a diametrical sectitt

sure can leak past the periphery of the im- | of the upper section of the casing. Fig. =

peller. When the pressure in this chamber | is a ton plan view of the same. Fig. 23188

reaches a given value and the consequent | side elevation of the inner shell of the sam

differential pressure on the under side of the | and the radial helical partitions. Fig. 24¥

impeller has been lessened to the predeter-| a top plan view of the same. Fig. 25 18!

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735,692

longitudinal section of the radial impeller

and its easing. Fig. 26 is a perspective view

of said impeller partly broken away.

The rotable pump-shaft 1 passes down

through the uptake or delivery-pipe 2, being

preferably inclosed in a easing 3. The shaft

bas bearings 4 5 in the upper and lower sec-

tions of the casing respectively. In the lower

ends of the upper section is located the im-

peller, which is a cireular structure concen-

trie with the shaft, to which it is firmly keyed

or otherwise secured. The impeller has a

hub 6, surrounded by a «disk-shaped body 7,

which is provided with a peripheral flange 8,

containing packing-grooves and fitting snugly

inside the cylindrical lower end 9 of the in-

ner shell 10 of the upper section of the ¢cas-

ing. Said cylindrical end 9 is long enough to

allow the impeller to have a certain amount

of longitudinal play.

Referring now especially to the figures of

the drawings illustrating the reversing-im-

peller, it will be seen that between the hub

and the periphery »f the impeller is a cylin-

drieal flange 11 extending preferably down-

ward below the bottom of the flange 8 and

having a rotating fit inside the upper end of

the inner shell 12 of the lower section of the

casing. The joint is preferably a rabbeted

one, as shown, and the flange 11 has a water-

packing groove in it. At certain points,

preferably two, a web 13 connects the flange

1] with the hub, whose surface below the disk

7 is preferably tapering and coneaved, as

The outer edge of the web 13. re-

mains always in the same transverse plane,

but its inner edge rises in a regular helical

line along the surface of the hub, departing |

farther and farther from the center as it

rises until it reaches a point longitudinally

in line with the flange 11. That portion of

said flange above the plane of junction with

the web also veers outwardly, similarly to the

web, so that a space of substantially uniform

is maintained between them,

the flange-wall moving downward as the web

rises until at the point where the web as-

sumes a position parallel with the axis of

the hub the flange-wall becomes horizontal

and terminates. The relative positions of

the web and flange-wall are illustrated in

Fig. 9, which is a perspective view of them

as they would look straightened out instead

of following the circular contour of the hub,

as they actually do. In the drawings two

webs are shown starting at diametrically op-

posite points and each continuing for three-

eighths of the cireumference of the hub, It

will be seen from this construction that the

water rising through the supply passage in

the inner shell 12 will be continuously lifted

by the radial edges of the two webs and car-

tied from a point inside the inner shell and

flange 11 first upward, then outward, and

finally downward to a point outside the

flange 11 and between it and the peripheral

flange 8. Here it enters an annular cham-

YOS —

ber in the lower section of the casing concen-

trie with the supply-passage 12. The walls

of this chamber 14 are twisted on helical 7

lines in a fashion similar to the web and

flange-wall of the impeller, so that the stream

of water is carried first downward, then out-

ward, and then upward through an outer

concentric annular chamber 14’. By a care-

ful study of Figs. 11 to 16, noting that they

are successive radial seetions of Fig. 10

through a quarter of its circumference, it is

thought that the course and operation of the

chamber-walls_ will be understood. From

the outer chamber 14’ the water passes up

through the annular space 15 between the

inner and outer shells of the upper section

of the casing, whence it flows into the up-

take. In order to counteract the rotary mo- 8

tion of the water as it issues from the cham-

ber 14’, the space 15 is divided into segments

by helical radial partitions 16, uniting the

two concentric shells of the upper casing-

section and so inclined as to check the whirl

of the water and send it into the uptake in

substantially longitudinal lines.

It will be seen that at the point in the im-

peller where the water is reversed from an

upward to a downward direction there will

be an upward hydrostatic pressure due to the

weight of the water column in the uptake.

This pressure tends to lift the impeller and

its shaft, and by properly proportioning the

parts this lift can be made to counterbalance

the rotating parts, so that the shaft will re-

quire no step-bearing, but will float, as it

were, on the water. In order to regulate this

counterbalancing effect so as to maintain the

impeller automatically in substantially the

same position irrespective of the fluctuations

in the water-pressure, I provide above the |

disk of the impeller a chamber 17, formed =

inside the inner shell of the upper section of ©

the casing. At its upper end the chamber is

made water-tight by a stuffing-box surround- |

ing the shaft 1. The gland 18 of the stuffing- 4

box is flanged, forming a cup to receive the

upper end of the hub 6 of the impeller, which 4

has a snug fit in the flange 19. Through said j

flange are cut ports 20, and the longitudinal

motion of the hub inside the flange will open

and close these ports. One or more eseape-

duets 21 are made through the impeller from

the upper end of the hub to points below the #

disk 7 and opening into the supply-passage 12. 9

In the operation of the pump the pressure §

of the water column causes a certain leakage

of water past the periphery of the impeller

into the chamber 17. As this leakage accu-

mulates in the chamber it counteracts the

lifting effect of the pressure on the under

side of the impeller, and if allowed to go on

unregulated it would soon become so great as

to balance that pressure and destroy the value

of the water column as a balancing agent for}

the rotating parts. The ports 20 are there-

fore so located that when the back pressure

in the chamber 17 reaches a predetermine

954

point, at which the differential pressure on

the disk of the impeller is just sufficient to

properly balance the rotating parts, then the

downward movement of the impeller has been

sufficient to open the ports 20 and permit an

escape of all subsequent leakage into the

chamber to the suction side of the impeller.

The device is thus self-regulating, and the im-

peller will maintain its normal position irre-

spective of the actual pressure of the water

column in the uptake. This automatic regu-

lating action is also secured by the impeller

shown in Figs. 25 and 26, which operates by

forcing the water outward in radial lines into

the lower end of the upper section of the

easing. Said upper section is similar to

that used for the reversing-impeller; but the

lower section is less intricate, being merely

a pedestal 22, containing a lower bearing for

the shaft 1 and having at its upper end a ecy-

lindrical shoulder 23, into which fits a cylin-

drical packed flange 24 on the impeller. The

peripheral flange 8 on the impeller extends

upward instead of downward, as in Fig. 1.

Under the disk 7 are one or more eccentric

webs 25, beginning at the flange 24 and end-

ing at the periphery of the disk and joined

to the flange by horizontal plates 26. When

two such webs are used, as shown in the

drawings, they each run half-way around the

impeller. When this impeller is rotated,

these webs, whose inner ends are in advance,

continuously cut the water and force it ra-

dially outward into the upper section of the

casing, where it passes up through the com-

partments between the helical partitions,

and so on to the uptake. The hydrostatic

pressure of the water column is exerted in-

wardly on the webs and upwardly on the

disk and plates. The water leaking past

the flange 8 is received in the ehamber 17.

and its escape is regulated by the ports 20

and the ducts 21 and hub 6, just as in the

ease of the reversing-impeller hereinbefore

described.

In using these pumps in deep wells I place

two or more of them at different depths, each

delivering water into a common uptake, or I

May arrange them tandem, all acting on the

same water column, so that the lower pumps

each deliver into the one next above.

Having thus described my invention, what

I claim is—

1. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to

the hydrostatic pressure of the water column

in the uptake, of a casing having a chamber

above said impeller and in which said im-

peller is free to move longitudinally, and

means controlled by the impeller for regulat-

ing the pressure in said chamber.

2. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to

the hydrostatic pressure of the water columi

in the uptake, of a casing containing a leak-

age-chamber above said impeller, and means

now

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735,692 3

controlled by the impeller for regulating the

escape of leakage-water therefrom.

3. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to?

the hydrostatic pressure of the water colum

in the uptake, of a casing containing a leak.

age-chamber above said impeller, and means

whereby the longitudinal movement of said

impeller automatically regulates the escape |

of leakage-water from said chamber.

4. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to

the hydrostatic pressure of the water column

in the uptake, of a casing fitting the periph-

ery of said impeller and forming a chamber

above it, and escape ports and duets leading

from said chamber and controlled by the lon-

gitudinal movement of said impeller.

5. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to

the hydrostatic pressure of the water column

in the uptake, of a casing forming a cham

ber above said impeller, a cupped element in

said chamber into which the hub of the im- 9

peller enters, ports in said cupped element

controlled by said hub, and escape-duets

through said impeller.

6. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to %

the hydrostatic pressure of the water column

in the uptake, of a casing forming a cham-

ber above said impeller and in which said im-

peller is free to rise and fall, a stuffing-bor

for the shaft in said chamber, having a gland 1

provided with a flange containing ports and |

fitting the upper end of the impeller-hub, and _

escape-ducts extending from the upper end

of said hub to the suction side of the impeller.

7. Ina rotary pump, the combination with 1!

an impeller having its under side exposed to

the hydrostatic pressure of the water column

in the uptake, of means for automatically con-

fining the water which exerts a pressure on

the upper side of the impeller, and means for ll

automatically governing the escape of said

water, so as to produce a differential pressure

on the under side of the impeller substan-

tially equal to the weight of the rotating

parts. Ml

8. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller having its under side exposed to

the hydrostatie pressure of the water column

in the uptake, of means for automatically con-

fining the water which exerts a pressure on J!

the upper side of the impeller, and means for

automatically governing the escape of said

water, so as to produce a differential pressure

on the under side of said impeller substat-

tially equal to the weight of the rotating !

parts, and means for maintaining said differ-

ential pressure constant.

9. A rotary pump having an impeller pro-

vided with a concentric flange one or more

portions of which veer outwardly from a lon- }}

gitudinal to a radial position, and one or more

webs extending between said flange and the.

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bub of the impeller and running from a radiai

to a longitudinal position simultaneously with

the change in the flange, and forming with

the impeller a passage substantially constant

in cross-section.

10. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller adapted to reverse the flow of the

water, of a casing having concentric commu-

nieating passages arranged to reverse the flow

of the water again.

11. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller delivering the water downwardly,

of a casing having concentric passages adapt-

ed to receive and reverse the flow of water.

12. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an axially-movable impeller adapted to de-

liver the water downwardly, of a casing hav-

ing concentric passages arranged to reverse

the flow of water, and means for automatic-

ally counterbalancing the upward reaction on

the impeller.

13. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an axially-movable impeller delivering the

watet downwardly, of a casing containing a

leakage-chamber above said impeller, and

means eontrolled by the impeller for regulat-

ing the escape of leakage-water from said

chamber.

14. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an axially-movable impeller delivering the 3

water downwardly, of a casing containing a

leakage-chamber above said impeller, and

means whereby the axial movement of the

impeller automatically regulates the escape

of leakage-water from said chamber.

15. Ina rotary pump, the combination with

an axially-movable impeller delivering the

water downwardly, of a casing fitting the pe-

riphery of said impeller and forming a cham-

ber above it, and escape ports and ducts lead-

ing from said chamber and controlled by the

axial movement of said impeller.

16. In a rotary pump, the combination with

an impeller delivering the water downwardly,

of a casing forming a chamber above said im-

peller, a cupped element in said chamber into

which the hub of said impeller enters, ports

in said cupped element controlled by said

hub, and escape-duets through said impeller.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature

in presence of two witnesses,

Ss ae

JOHN WATSON ALVORD. |

Witnesses :

R. L. OTWELL,

V. K. Morris.

Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

956

Defendants’ Exhibit ‘‘A-10.”’

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 957

[Endorsed]: In the United States District Court,

Northern District of California, Southern Division.

In Equity—No. 485. Layne & Bowler Corporation,

Plaintiff, vs. Western Well Works, Inc., a Corpora-

tion, et al. Defendants. Defendants’ Exhibit

“A-10."" Hattie B. Lehman, Notary Public.

Filed Sep. 2, 1920. W. B. Maling, Clerk. By J.

A. Sehaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No. 3627. United States Circuit Court of Ap-

peals for the Ninth Circuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921. F.

D. Monckton, Clerk.

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Defendants’ Exhibit ‘‘D.”’

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

To all to whom these presents shall come, GREET-

ING:

THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the annexed is a

true copy from the Records of this Office of the File

Wrapper and Contents, in the matter of the

Letters Patent of

MAHLON E, LAYNE.

Number 821,653, Granted May 29, 1906.

for

Improvement in Well Mechanism.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF IL have hereunto

set my hand and caused the seal of the Patent Office

to be affixed at Washington, in the District of Co-

filed...

Division of App. No...........

958 Western Well Works, Ine., et al.

lumbia, this 28d day of August, in the vear of our

Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and

of the Independence of the United States of Amer-

ica the one hundred and forty-fifth.

[Seal] M. H. COULSON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Case 6.

1903.

Number (Series of 1900.)

154,704.

3x9.

(Ex’rs Book)

5 5 {2

50-837

PATENT No. 821,653.

Name Mahlon E. Layne,

of Houston,

County of

State of Texas.

Invention

Well Mechanism.

ORIGINAL. RENEWED.

2 ( Petition, April 28, 1903 190

= | Affidavit, “ <¢ 9006 , 190

= | Specitication, “< +, 1903 190)

g 4 Drawing 4 Shts. “ “1203 , 190

e Model or Specimen, ae , 190

First Fee Cash, $15, April 28, 1903 , 190

E 5 * Cert. 190 , 190

* LApp. tiled complete — Apl. 28, 19038 , 190

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 959

Examined F. M. Tryon, Ex., Oct. 30, 1905 190

Countersigned, J. W. Melsey, , 190

For Commissioner , 190

For Comnnissioner,

Notice of Allowance, Noy. 6, 1905 , 190

Final Fee Cash + W. May 4, 1906 . 190

a * Cert. 190 190

Patented May 29, 1906

Associate Attorney,

Attorney PAUL SYNNESTVEDT,

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Hon. Commissioner of Patents,

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Sir:

Herewith I hand you my check #7091 for $15 to

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PETITION,

To The Commissioner of Patents:

Your Petitioner, Mahlon E. Layne, a citizen of

ass ae ee

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 961

the United States of America, residing at Houston,

County of Harris and State of Texas (his postoffice

address being Houston, Texas), prays that Letters

Patent may be granted to him for the new and use-

ful improvements in

WELL MECHANISM (Case 6)

set forth in the annexed specification; and he

hereby appoints PAUL SYNNESTVEDT (Reg-

istry No. 106-4518 Frick Building, Pittsburg,

Pa.), his attorney, with full powers of substitution

and revocation, to sign his name to the drawings, to

prosecute this application, to make alterations and

amendments therein, to receive the patent, and to

transact all business in the Patent Office connected

therewith.

MAHLON KE. LAYNE.

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OATH,

State of Illinois,

County of Cook,—ss.

Mahlon E. Layne, the above-named petitioner,

being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is a citi-

zen of the United States of America, residing at

Houston in the County of Harris and State of

Texas, and that he verily believes himself to be the

original, first and sole inventor of the new and use-

ful improvements in

WELL MECHANISM

described and claimed in the annexed specification;

that he does not know and does not believe that the

same was ever known or ever used before his inven-

hes a

962 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

tion or discovery thereof; or patented or described

in any printed publication before his invention or

discovery thereof, or more than two years prior to

this application; or in public use or on sale in the

United States for more than two years prior to this

application; and that no application for patent on

the said invention has been filed by him or his legal

representatives or assigns in any country foreign to

the United States.

MATILON E. LAYNE.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 3d day

of April, A. D. 1908.

[Seal ] PAUL CARPENTER,

Notary Public in and for the County in the State

aforesaid,

153704.

Case 6.

SPECIFICATION,

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be It Known That I, MAHLON E. LAYNE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Houston,

County of Harris and State of Texas, have invented

certain new and useful improvements in

WELL MECHANISM,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the apparatus used for

drawing water from driven or artesian wells, and

particularly to the means for adjusting a pump

therein. The objects of the invention are, to pro-

vide means by which the piping and the pump may

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be all assembled in proper shape before inserting it

into the well; to provide means by which a pump

may be placed in any desired position in a well, cen-

tered, raised or lowered and fixed in position by

manipulating from the outside entirely; to provide

means for adjusting the length of the piping lead-

ing from the pump to the surface at will and to

lower the pump from time to time without taking it

out of the well; to provide improved means for

centering and fixing the pump in proper position

in the well casing; to provide improved means for

manipulating the packing of the pump shaft, and

proper adjustment of the pump in place by means

at the surface of the ground; to provide for the

proper action of a pump without stopping up the

well, so that water may be either flowed into or

pumped out of the same at pleasure; to provide ¢

superior mounting for a centrifugal pump in the

well, manipulated from the surface of the ground;

to provide an extensible pump shaft separately sup-

ported at intervals along its length; to provide an

automatic centering device for the pump in_ the

well; to provide for mounting the pump and the

shaft in a closed casing which is open to opeate

from the top; to obviate the necessity of making

large wells for descending into them in order to ar-

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‘ange the pump, and to generally improve and

cheapen the apparatus used for the above purposes.

The above objects, as well as other advantages

Which will hereinafter appear, I attain by means

of the construction and assemblage of parts as illus-

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trated in preferred forms in the accompanying

drawings, wherein—

Figure 1 represents a section of a well showing

the preferred form of my apparatus in place

therein.

Figures 2, 3 and 4 are horizontal sections of the

shaft casing respectively taken on line 2 of Figure

1, and lines 3 and 4 in Figure 5.

Figure 5 is an enlarged central vertical section

taken through the pump and the casing of the well.

Figure 6 is a horizontal section of Figure 5 taken

along the line 6.

Figure 7 is a section of a top of the well casing

containing the pump shaft and its mounting: Fig-

ure 8 is a similar section taken at one of the joints

of the pump shaft casing.

Figure 9 is a section taken through the ‘asing

containing the pump shaft at the collar 28 in Figure

Figure 10 is a vertical section of a well having a

modified form of the apparatus therein.

Figure 11 is a side view and partial section of a

centrifugal pump mounted by a modified method.

Figure 12 is a half plan and half section of the

pump shown in Figure 11, taken along the line 12

therein.

Figure 13 is a partial vertical section taken

through the shafting and its mounting shown in

Figure 10 at the point marked 68.

For convenience of illustration the apparatus is

shown as applied to a well which passes through

two water bearing strata separated by an impervi-

ous stratum, the top surface of the ground being

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also an impervious layer of earth. The upper

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chamber 15 of the well may be protected by wooden

framing as customary, or it may be but a continua-

tion of the chamber enclosed by the casing 16, which

may be carried to the surface if desired, and the

chamber 15 dispensed with. Below this is a screen

17 in the sand layer, and still below the screen 17 is

another casing 18, into which extends the suction

pipe 22, from the pump 21, and below this another

screen 19.

In the approved form as illustrated in Figure 1,

I use a centrifugal pump 21, single or in a series,

as may be desired, and having a top discharge. It

is attached to a casing 20, which runs to the top of

the well and encloses the driving shaft 39 of the

pump, which may be driven by a pulley 25, mounted

in the framework 24, in any approved manner. An

outlet pipe 23 leads from the pump to the surface

to carry off the water. As shown in Figure 2, the

shaft casing 20, and the outlet pipe 23, are bound

together by means of the block-and-strap arrange-

ment 26. These connecting devices are distributed

at intervals along the length of the shaft casing. In

order to previously assemble all the parts and then

put the pump into the well and fix it in position

therein, I provide a system of wedges 3°, which

serve to fix the pump in place and hold it in the

proper vertical position, designed to be operated by

means from the top of the well, avoiding the neces-

sity of a man’s going into the well in order to fix

the pump in place. Pivoted to an extension on the

966 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

head of the centrifugal pump, casing 37, I provide

a series of toggle links 34, which are carried in slots

in the extension 36 of the casing, and at their outer

ends bear wedge blocks 35, which embrace and co-

operate with the vertically movable wedges 33,

placed against the casing 16. The wedges 33 may

be attached to links 39, which are carried by a slid-

ing collar 28 on the casing 20, the collar 28 being

operated by a rod 27, which runs to the top of the

well, so that from the top the wedges 33 may _ be

raised and lowered into place and can be tightened

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therein. The toggle links may be also connected

by links 32, to a collar 31, and the collar 31 to a rod

30, which extends to the top of the well as before,

in order to manipulate it withovt going into the

well. Thus in order to obtain greater power and

fix the wedges more securely in place, it will be ob-

served that by pulling up on the rod 32, the toggle

links 34 will cause the wedge blocks 35 to press with

great power against the wedges 33, and thus fix the

pump casing in place wherever desired.

The pump shaft 39 is enclosed in a shaft casing

20, which latter is made in joints and may be of any

desired length. The pump shaft also is made in

sections, 39, 39’ 39”, which are attached together by

means of sliding keys so as to allow of some vertical

play with relation to each other. From Figure 6 it

will be seen that the shaft 39 passes through a block

47, and at its top is fixed in the bearing block 48 by

means of the pin 50, as shown in Figure 4. The

next section of the shaft, 39’, is inserted into the

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block 48, and prevented from rotating by means of

the key 49, which is splined therein. The weight of

the shaft and pump below the block 47 is carried

by the block 48; and from Figure 8 it will be seen

that a similar arrangement is made at the top of the

next section of the shaft casing, where the block

47’ supports the weight of the section of shaft 39’

by means of the collar 48’, connected by a pin and

key as before.

At the top, the casing 20 is closed and is provided

with a stuffing-box 50, closed by the cap 51, at the

top of the shaft 39”. The shaft 39 is fixedly keyed

to the vanes 38 of the centrifugal pump, and below

the pump casing 21 is a pipe 22, which extends

down below the water level and is extended any de-

sired depth in the well.

The casing 20 also contains a tubular rod 44,

Which has a bearing in the block 47 on top of the

pump casing 37, as shown in Figure 5, and is pro-

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vided with a square opening which co-operates with

the head of the screw 42, used for adjusting the cap

+1 of the packing box 40 for the pump, and compress-

ing the packing in place. In order that this cap

41 may be raised and lowered evenly, the screw 42

is provided with a sprocket wheel, and two other

screws of a similar kind are distributel about the

cap, as shown in Figure 6, and connected by means

of the sprocket chain 46, so that by means of the

tubular shaft 44, all three of said screw 42 may be

turned at once to compress the packing in box 40,

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This pipe is tubular shaft 44 also serves the pur-

pose of providing convenient means for forcing the

liquid out of the pump shaft casing. By forcing

air in at the top of the casing 90, by means of the

pipe 52, the liquid can be forced down to the bot-

tom of said casing 20, and by means of the small

opening 45, in the pottom of the tubular shaft 44,

the fluid can be forced out at the top 54, and keep

the casing clear in order to leave the bearings clean

therein and not interfere with the working of the

pump, or by forcing fluid in at the top 54, the oper-

ation will be reversed, and the fluid ejected from

pipe 52.

It will be noticed that the weight of the pump

and its shaft is supported at each end of the sec-

tions of the casing by the blocks 47, 47’, ete. By

reason of this arrangement the pump shaft and the

shaft casing can be made in separable sections, and

consequently the pump may be inserted at any de-

sired depth and the parts assembled before putting

them into the well. The wedge system illustrated

for tightening the pump casing in place may also,

if desired, be used to center it with respect to the

casing. The outlet pipe 25 is also preferably made

in sections to correspond with the sections of the

pump shaft casing.

In Figures 10 to 18 I have shown a modified form

of the apparatus which uses a simple series of

wedges for fixing the pump in place, as illust rated

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best in Figure 11. The pump casing has a_plat-

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form 61, and a depending ring flange 66, and a

series of wedges 63 are placed around the depend-

ing flange 66, and are connected to the top platform

by means of a series of screws 65. <A series of co-

| operating wedges 62 may also be provided, sus-

| pended from the platform 61 by means of the screw

64, and the two series of wedges surround the whole

casing. It will sometimes be convenient to dispense

with the outlet pipe 28, and extend the casing 16 to

the top, to act itself as the conveying channel for

the liquid. In each case, of course, the pump cas-

ing 21 and platform 61 will be made water-tight

Within the casing 16, and for this purpose the

wedges 62 will be made in overlapping sections, in

order to break the joints seen in Figure 12. The

pumps will then deliver directly into the upper cas-

ing. It will be plain that by turning the screws 65,

the bottom wedges are drawn upward against the

wedges 62, by which the casing of the pump is fixed

in any desired place and tightened in the well cas-

ing 16. The screws 65 may be operated by means

of a socket wrench placed upon a long rod and

reached from the surface of the ground, or may

be extended to the surface of the ground, as desired.

In the case illustrated, the top of the pump shaft

may be provided with a pulley 25, as before, and a

bearing fixed on some part of the framework, as on

the cross beam 57. Extending downward from the

beam 57 may be provided a timber 56, and part way

down a bearing and support providing for the casing

of the pump shaft 60, by means of the block 67,

Which is carried upon a cross frame 68; and a pack-

ing box therein, 71, is closed by a screw 70, the whole

970 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

being attached to the timber 56 as shown in Figure

13. Below this point the shaft 39 may be en-

closed in a casing 60, which is screwed in the block

67, as shown in said Figure. For additional se-

curity the block 67 may be attached to the timber

56, by means of the strap 69, which surrounds the

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same. The casing 60 may be in sections and of any

desired length.

I prefer, generally, to allow for free flow of water

down the well outside of the pump casing and the

pump, in order that water may be drained into the

well when desired, rather than pumping the water

out; which I attain by dropping the wedges 63 and

thereby loosening the wedges 62 from the casing 16,

permitting water above pump to pass into the strata

supplying the well.

I generally prefer to extend the piping 22 en-

tirely through the first water bearing stratum and

into the second, as shown in the screen 19; it being

understood that the water from the first stratum

will flow down the casing 18 to the second when the

water level falls sufficiently therefor.

In general I prefer the form of apparatus as

shown in Figure 1, both because the means for fix-

ing the pump in place is more easily adjusted, and

because of the superior mounting of the pump shaft

inside the sectional casing as therein shown, and

making the pump shaft in sections. But in cases

where the pump will not be moved for a long time,

the device of Figure 11 may be used for wedging

it in place.

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It will be seen that by fastening the pump within

the casing in such position as to leave an unob-

structed passage around it, I provide for draining

water into the well in cases where this is desired,

as often happens when fields are flooded, and when

it is desired to drain the fields. The whole appara-

tus being self-contained, can be put together in

proper form and lowered into the well at once. It

will be seen also that the toggle levers used for ac-

tuating the wedges may be used or not, as desired,

since the wedges alone will be amply sufficient in

the apparatus of Figure 1, as well as in that of

Figure 10. I consider it of great advantage also to

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arrange the pump shaft in a closed casing with

stuffing box at surface of ground at top of pump,

so that by the use of the packing boxes an air-tight

chamber can be maintained, and water kept out of

the casing 20, or kept filled with clean liquid, if de-

sired, thereby providing an efficient lubricating sys-

tem for all bearings of the pump.

The many advantages of this apparatus will be

apparent to those familiar with the use of such de-

vices from inspection of the drawings.

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972 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

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974 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

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976 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my

hand this 3rd day of April, A. D. 1903, at Chicago,

Illinois.

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

Witnesses :

PAUL CARPENTER.

ALBERT C. HOWARD.

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437

Room No. 120. Paper No. 1.

All communications should be ad- All communications respecting this

dressed to application should give the

“The Commissioner of Patents, serial number, date of

Washington, D. C.” filing, and title of

invention.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

Washington, D. C. June 1, 1903.

Patent Office

June—1903

Mailed

Mahlon E. Layne,

Care, Paul Synnestvedt,

\18 Frick Bld’g.,

Pittsburg, Pa.

Please find below a communication from the

EXAMINER in charge of your application, for

Well Mechanism, filed April 28, 1903, Ser. No.

154,704.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 977

This application has been examined.

Claims 1, 2, 9, 21, and 22 are rejected on Caval-

laro, #524,666, Aug. 14, 1894, Artesian and Oil

Wells, Tubing and Packing.

Claims 3, 4, and 7 are rejected on Cavallaro above

cited and Crannell, 425,933, April 15, 1890,

Pumps, Rotary, Single Piston.

Claims 5 and 6 are rejected on Cavallaro above

cited, and Northam, #633,474, Sept. 19, 1899,

Pumps, Rotary, Single Piston.

Claim 8 is inaccurate, since it states three sets of

wedges and only two sets are shown. Properly cor-

rected this claim will be allowed.

Claims 12, 13, and 18 are rejected on the ground

that it would not require invention to form the ex-

tensible shaft shown in the patent to Northam with

joints such as are shown in the patent to Barker,

$264,997, Sept. 26, 1882, Journal Boxes, Pulleys

and Shafting, Shafting.

Claim 14 is rejected on Redmond, #59,319, Oct.

30, 1866, Artesian and Oil Wells, Tubing and Pack-

ing, and Rhodes, #644,638, March 6, 1900, Artesian

and Oil Wells, Drilling and Boring.

Claim 17 does not define the construction. More-

over, so far as seen the hollow rod and the air inlet

at the top of the casing are one and the same thing.

The claim is rejected.

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Layne.—2,

Claims 19 and 20 are allowable as at present ad-

vised.

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978 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

Claim 23 is rejected on Northam above cited and

Cook, #603,260, May 3, 1898, Journal Boxes, Pul-

leys and Shafting, Journal Boxes, Lubricating.

Claim 24 can be read only on the construction

shown in Figs. 10 to 13 inclusive and should not be

presented in the same application as the remaining

claims.

Claims 10, 11, 15, and 16 are allowed.

F. M. TRYON, Ex.

350

WHITEHEAD,

Asst. Ex.

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Feb. 1, 1904

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February 1, 1904. Division IX.

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vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 979

In re Application of Mahlon E. Layne

For WELL APPARATUS

Filed April 28, 1903.

Serial No. 154704

(Room 120).

Cls. 20-22

Pittsburgh, Pa., January 30, 1904.

The Hon. Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

In response to the Examiner’s letter of June 1,

1903, in the above case, the applicant amends as

follows:

Claim 4, line 4, after ‘‘casing’’ insert; / and seal-

ing it off from the water in the well. /

Claim 5 line 2, erase ‘‘and.’’ At the end of the

claim insert a /comma / and the words: / and inde-

pendent supports for the shaft. /

Claim 6 line 2, at the end of the line after the

word “‘pump”’ insert; / and shaft.

Claim 7 line 1, before ‘‘pump”’ insert / rotary. /

Claim 8 line 1, after ‘‘pump”’ erase the words;

‘a series of wedges with means for attaching them

to the pump.”’

Claim 13 line 1, after ‘‘pump”’ insert; /and a

closed shaft casing.

Claim 14 line 2, before ‘‘screws”’ insert; /a closed

the

shaft casing protecting the bearings from/water. /

Claim 17 last line, erase the words ‘‘same and”

and insert; / shaft casing and /

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Claim 18 line 2, after ‘‘sections’’ insert; / inde-

pendently supported and /. At the end of the

claim insert a/comma/and the words; /and a

closed casing around the shaft. /

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Claim 22 line 2, before the final word ‘*devices”’

insert; /a casing separating the pump and_bear-

ings from the well, and. /

Claim 23 line 1, before ‘‘sections’’ insert ; / inde-

pendently supported. Line 2, before ‘*pipe’’ insert

closed.

Claim 24 line 2, erase the word ‘‘and”’. Line 3,

insert a /comma after ‘position’? and the words

/and means. /

Erase claims; 1, 2, 9, and 21, and insert the fol-

lowing claims 21, 22 and 23: after re-numbering the

remaining claims:

9024. The combination of a well casing, a rotary

pump therein, and a line shaft for the pump en-

tirely closed off from the water in the well.

2122. The combination of a well cas-

12,9,04 ing, a rotary pump therein, means for

A desired

fixing it at any A desive point in the well,

an extensible line shaft for the pump and a shaft

‘asing entirely enclosing the shaft and bearings.

22 23. The combination of a well casing, a rotary

pump therein, means for fixing it at any desired

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point, a shaft casing, and a_ discharge

12, 23,04 outlet from the pump independent of

insert communicating with the pump casing only

12, 31, 04 at the bottom of the well.

C the shaft casing and A sealed ef from

The references have been carefully examined.

The Examiner’s attention is first called to the fact

that in applicant’s device the line shaft and all its

bearings are completely closed off from the water

in the well, and that the line shaft is supported at

various points in the various sections, and that

either in the device of Figure 5 or in the device of

Figure 10, the outlet for the water from the pump

is independent of the easing which surrounds the line

shaft, and in case the pump casing is sealed off com-

pletely as in Figure 10 the discharge may be through

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the upper end of the well casing and still the water

does not come in contact with any of the bearings

or the line shaft.

The patent to Cavallaro of course does not show

a pump casing separate from the pump of a casing

Which fits around the pump shaft and seals it off

from the inflowing water, as this is merely a device

for a constantly flowing well and amounts nothing

more than a valve for stopping the upward flow

therein. The patent to Crannell not only shows a

pump which cannot be fixed at any desired point

in the well and which does not operate directly upon

the water to raise it through an independent shaft,

but the lower bearings in the pump are directly ex-

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982 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

posed to all the sand and detritus in the water, and

the pump is virtually an air pump, being entirely

inoperative without the use of the air pump at the

top of the well forcing the air in through the pipe

90. There are of course shown no bearings for the

line shaft except the ones at the bottom and the line

shaft is not extensible, and it will be observed that

this pump cannot be used in a well in which the cas-

ing may serve as a conduit for water in any case,

and necessitates a large well which works on an en-

tirely different principle from applicant’s device.

It does not appear how the Northam pump can be

held to show an extensible shaft inasmuch as the

shaft that belongs to any one of the pumps is not

extensible and the only way to extend the shaft at

all is to put in a new pump. In other words each

one of the pumps and its shaft is independently

supported, but there is no extensibility of the shaft

to any one of the pumps. Moreover it will be ob-

served that all the bearings are directly exposed to

the sand and detritus in the water and this is the

particular thing which applicant is attempting to

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avoid. The Barker device is not applicable as a

reference to this case because it does not allow of

any play in the shaft itself; it merely allows the

entire shaft to move as a unit through the bearings,

and this is not a feature which is applicable to this

applicant’s device. Moreover being an_ entirely

foreign art it does not show any applicability to a

well screen.

The patent to Redmond merely shows a device for

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sealing off a small pipe from a large pipe, it does

not show a shaft nor any means for sealing off the

shaft therein. It is not supposed that this appli-

cant is the inventor of the broad idea of using a

wedge for fixing a device at a particular point in the

well casing, but only that he is the originator of the

idea of operating the tightening mechanism for the

pump by means entirely enclosed in the shaft cas-

ing and not exposed to the deleterious effect of the

water being pumped through the well. The Red-

mond device is therefore not a reference to any-

thing now in the claims. For this same reason the

patent to Rhodes is not applicable as a reference.

Original claim 23 was not met because it does not

show a shaft suspended within a glosed pipe as

specified, and it will observed that as amended it

entirely distinguishes from the prior art, as before

said the Northam patent does not show a pump

shaft which is extensible but a series of pump shafts

each one of which is integral, and moreover the

shaft is not enclosed in a casing independent of the

pump, Which is the essential feature of this device.

In fact none of the references show a closed driving

shaft casing which extends from the top of the well

means to fix

from the pump and A bene affixed to the pump in

the well casing. These two features are necessarily

combined because the essential thing of the inven-

tion is the drawing up of the water from below the

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pump and discharging it through an outlet which is

independent from the casing enclosing the bearings,

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984 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

whereby the bearings are entirely protected from

the flowing water. For this reason such claims as

original 3 are respectfully re-submitted for exam-

ination. The uncertainty in original claim 8 was

inadvertent owing to the repetition of a clause

therein which has been erased in lines 1 and 2. It

is respectfully submitted that the claims as now

written are allowable over these references, and in

case of rejection the Examiner is asked to point

out element for element the claims anticipated.

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

By His Attorney,

PAUL SYNNESTVEDT.

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“The Commissioner of Patents, serial number, date of

Washington, D. C.” filing, and title of

invention.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Washington, D. C., February 15, 1904.

-atent Office. Feb. 15, 1904. Mailed.

Mahlon E, Layne,

‘are, Paul Synnestvedt,

518 Frick Bldg.,

Pittsburg, Pa.

Please find below a communication from the EX-

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 985

AMINER in charge of your application, for Well

Mechanism, filed April 28, 1903, Ser. No. 154,704.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

This application has been considered as amended

Feb. 1, 1904.

The requirement that claim 20 (original 24) be

presented in a different application from the re-

maining claims is repeated, since, as pointed out in

the last Office letter, that claim can be read only on

the form of the device shown in Fig. 10.

In Claim 21, line 2, ‘‘desire’’ should be desired.

It should be stated before which word ‘‘pump”’

in line 1 of claim 5 the word ‘‘rotary”’ should be in-

serted, and this claim should be properly punctu-

ated,

Claim 2 is inaccurate, since the pump is not

sealed off from the water in the well. When prop-

erly corrected this claim will be allowed.

Claim 4 is rejected on the ground that it does not

| distinguish in terms from an aggregation of fea-

tures shown in Northam and Cavallaro, both of

record.

Claim 9 does not distinguish in terms from an

aggregation of Northam and Crannell, both of ree-

ord, and is rejected.

Claims 23 is not understood. So far as seen the

discharge outlet from the pump is not sealed off

from the well casing below the pump. If it is in-

tended that this claim shall read only on the form

shown in Fig. 10 then it should not be presented in

this application.

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The remaining claims are allowed.

F. M. TRYON,

Ex.

R. Fk. WHITEHEAD,

Asst. Ex.

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FRANCIS W. HL. CLAY,

Attorney and Counselor at Law.

In re Application of M. EK. Layne for Well Appa-

ratus. Filed April 28, 1908.) Serial No.

154,704. (Room 142.)

Pittsburgh, Pa., December 8, 1904.

Cl. 4.

lon. Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

In response to the Examiner's letter of February

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14, 1904, in the above ease, the applicant amends as

follows:

Kr ase the insert at the end of li line 4 4, claim 2 2, and

substitute , /“and sealing said shaft off from—? /

or.

water in the well, / (that is, change the word “It”

in the former ‘amendment to / said shaft). / /

Re- write claim 4+ as below:

4. The combination of ‘rota ry pump, “and | eX-

tensible pump shaft and ccs easing for the

shaft, and means for supporting the pump and shaft

and casing at any desired point within the well.

In claim 5. line I , the word “rotary Ai should. be

inserted before the first occurrence “of the word

“pump.” ‘Make a comma after this word

‘“pump,’? and in line 2 change “said” toy / the.

Claim 9, line 1 1, after ‘with’? insert /a pump cas-

ing, of. /

Erase claim 20.

Claim 22, line 2, spell the word ‘‘desired.”’

As to claim 23, it is submitted the Examiner mis-

apprehends. The discharge outlet is sealed off from

the well casing below the pump in all instances,—

that is, the water cannot enter the pipe 22 from the

well casing anywhere except at the bottom, so that

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the water from all strata, though it may enter the

‘asing 18 or the casing 17, cannot get into the out-

going stream without passing to the bottom of the

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whole well. It is believed the language makes this

clear when the claim is read as a whole, and does

not require change. Any suggestion as to clearer

wording which the Examiner may suggest will be

accepted, if it is necessary.

Respectfully submitted,

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

By his Attorney,

PAUL SYNNESTVEDT,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., December 20, 1904.

Patent Office. Dec. 20,1904. Mailed.

Mahlon E. Layne,

Care, Paul Synnestvedt,

Pittsburg, Pa.

Please find below a communication from the EX-

AMINER in charge of your application, for Well

Mechanism, filed April 28, 1903, Ser. No. 154,704.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

This application has been considered as amended

Dec. 9, 1904.

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 989

Claim 22 (original 23) is not clear. The expres-

sion ‘‘sealed off from the well casing below the

pump”’ is not seen to be accurate. It is true that

the pump has a closed casing with a suction pipe ex-

tending below the same so that any water that

would leak into the well could reach the pump only

through the suction pipe, but this would be true of

any pump of this tvpe which might be placed in a

well, for example that shown in Andrews, #4418,

March 14, 1840, Pumps, Rotary, Single Piston.

The remaining claims are allowed.

F. M. TRYON,

Ex.

WHITEHEAD,

Asst. Ex.

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990 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

In re Application of M. E. Layne for Well Appa-

ratus. Filed April 28, 1903. Serial No.

154,704. (Room 120.)

Pittsburgh, Pa., Dee. 22, 1904.

Hon. Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

In response to the Examiner’s letter of December

20, 1904, in the above case, applicant amends claim

22 (original 23) by erasing at the end the clause

’

‘‘sealed off from the well casing below the pump’

and inserting / communicating with the pump cas-

ing only at the bottom of the well.

The claim is distinguished from Andrews by the

several other limitations.

Respectfully submitted,

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

By his Attorney,

PAUL SYNNESTVEDT,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., January 13, 1905.

Patent Office. Jan. 13, 1905. Mailed.

Mahlon E. Layne,

Care, Paul Synnestvedt,

Pittsburg, Pa.

Please find below a communication from the EX-

AMINER in charge of your application, for Well

Mechanism, filed April 28, 1903, Ser. No. 154,704.

This application has been considered as amended

Dec. 23, and Dee. 31, 1904. F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

Claim 22 is allowed. —

Claim 23 is rejected in conformity with the Com-

missioner’s decision in ex parte Selle, 110 O. G.,

1728, since this claim covers merely a lubricating

shaft bearing and hence division will have to be re-

quired between this claim and the remaining claims

in the case, applicant having already elected the in-

vention before claimed. F. M. TRYON,

WHITEHEAD, Kx.

Asst. Ex.

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Mail Room. Oct. 24, 1905. U.S. Patent Office.

Division 9, Paper No. 9. Oct. 25, 1905.

U.S. Patent Office,

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PAUL CARPENTER,

Patent Attorney.

FRANCIS W. H. CLAY,

Attorney and Counselor at Law.

In re Application of M. E. Layne for Well Appa-

ratus. Filed April 28, 1903. Serial No.

154,704. (Room 142.)

Pittsburgh, Pa., Oetober 23, 1905.

Hon. Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

In response to the office letter of January 13,

1905, the applicant amends by erasing claim 23.

Claim 23 is the only claim under rejection, so that

this action puts the case in condition for allowances,

and an immediate allowance is requested.

Respectfully,

MAHLON E. LAYNE,

By his Attorney,

154704 PAUL SYNNESTVEDT.

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c/o Paul Synnestvedt,

518 Frick Bldg.,

Pittsburg, Pa.

Sir: Your APPLICATION for a patent for an

IMPROVEMENT IN Well Mechanism filed Apl.;

28, 1903, has been examined and ALLOWED

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Pittsburg, Pa.

Sir: Your application for a patent for an IM-

PROVEMENT IN WELL MECHANISM filed

April 28, 1903, has been examined and again

ALLOWED.

The final fee, TWENTY DOLLARS, in the

above-entitled case was received May 4, 1906.

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Inventor: Mahlon E. Layne.

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Name of Invention, as Allowed: Well Mechanism.

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Bo. 821,663. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

M. BE. LAYNE.

WELL MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 28, 1903.

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WELL MECHANISM.

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WELL MECHANISM.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAHLON E. LAYNE, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

WELL MECHANISM.

No. 821,653.

Application filed April 28,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MAHLON E. LAYNE, &

citizen of the United States, residing at Hous-

ton, county of Harris, and State of Texas,

have invented certain new and useful Im

provements in Well Mechanism, of which the

following is a specification.

My invention relates to the apparatus used

for drawing water from driven or Artesian

wells, and particularly to the means for ad-

justing a pump therein, The objects of the

invention are, to provide means by which the

piping and the pump may be all assembled

in proper shape before inserting it into the

well; to provide means by which a pump

may be placed in any desired position in a

well, centered, raised or lowered and fixed in

position by manipulating from the outside

entirely; to provide means for adjusting the

length of the piping leading from the pump

to the surface at will and to lower the pump

from time to time without taking it out of

the well; to provide improved means for cen-

tering and fixing the pump in proper position

in the well casing; to provide improved

means for manipulating the packing of the

pump shaft, and proper adjustment of the

pump in place by means at the surface of the

ground; to provide for the proper action of a

pump without stopping up the well, so that

water may be either flowed into or pumped

out of the same at pleasure; to provide a su-

perior mounting for a centrifugal pump in

the well, manipulated from the surface of the

ground; to provide an extensible pump

shaft separately supported at intervals along

its length; to provide an automatic center:

ing device for the pump in the well; to pro-

vide for mounting the pump and the shaft in

a closed easing which is open to operate from

the top; to obviate the necessity of making

large wells for descending into them in order

to arrange the pump, and to generally im-

prove and cheapen the apparatus used for

the above purposes.

The above objects, as well as other advan-

tages which will hereinafter appear, I attain

by means of the construction and assem-

blage of parts as illustrated in preferred

forms in the accompanying drawings, where-

in—

Figure 1 represents a section of a well

showing the preferred form of my apparatus

in place therein.

Figures 2, 3 and 4 are horizontal sections

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906,

1903. Serial No. 154,704.

of the shaft casing respectively taken on lize

2 of Figure 1, and lines 3 and 4 in Figur 5

raged Me — enlarged central vertices

section taken through the pu ;

ing of the well. . aetna ae

‘igure 6 is a horizontal secti ‘igure j

taken along the line 6. oe

Figure 7 is a section of a top of the wel

casing containing the pump shaft and its

mounting; Figure 8 isa similar section taker|

at one of the joints of the pump shaft casing

Figure 9 is a section taken through th

casing containing the pump shaft at the cd:

lar 28 in Figure 1

; Figure 10 is a vertical section of a well bar

ing a modified form of the apparatus therein

Figure 11 is a side view and partial sectio

of a centrifugal pump mounted by a modified

method,

Pi get 12 - a half plan and half section

of the pump shown in Figure

the line 12 ‘therein, : Pas

Figure 13 is a partial vertical section takes

through the shafting and its mounting show

in Figure 10 at the point marked 68,

For convenience of illustration the apps

ratus is shown as applied to a well whic

passes through two water bearing strat

separated by an impervious stratum, the to

surface of the ground being also an impe:

vious layer of earth. The upper chamber 15

of the well may be protected by wooler

framing as customary, or it may be buts

continuation of the chamber inelosed by the

casing 16, which may be carried to the sur

face if desired, and the chamber 15 dispens!

with, Below this is a sereen 17 in the sani

layer, and still below the sereen 17 is another

casing 18, into which extends the suctit

pipe 22, from the pump 21, and below thi

another screen 19.

In the approved form as illustrated in Fig

ure 1, I use a centrifugal pump 21, single

in a series, as may be desired, and having!

top discharge. It is attached to a casing 2)

which runs to the top of the well and incloe

the driving shaft 39 of the pump, which my

be driven by a pulley 25, mounted in th

framework 24, in any approved manner. A!

outlet pipe 23 leads from the pump to t®

surface to carry off the water. An shown it

Figure 2, the shaft casing 20, and the outkt

pipe 23, are bound together by means of th

block-and-strap arrangement 26. These cor

necting devices are distributed at interval

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along the length of the shaft easing. In or-

jer to previously assemble all the parts and

then put the pump into the well and fix it in

position therein, I provide a system of

wedges 33, which serve to fix the pump in

place and hold it in the proper vertical posi-

tion, designed to be operated by means from

the top of the well, avoiding the necessity of

,man’s going into the well in order to fix the

ump in place. Pivoted to an extension on

the head of the centrifugal pump casing 37, |

provide a series of toggle links 34, which are

tarried in slots in the extension 36 of the cas-

ing, and at their euter ends bear wedge blocks

33, which embrace and codperate with the

vertically movable wedges 33, placed against

the easing 16. The wedges 33 may be at-

tached to links 29, which are carried by a

diding collar 28 on the casing 20, the collar

28 being operated by a rod 27, which runs to

the top of the well, so that from the top the

wedges 33 may be raised and lowered into

place and ean be tightened therein. The tog-

ie links may be also connected by links 32,

toa collar 31, and the collar 31to a rod 30,

which extends to the top of the well as be-

fore, in order to manipulate it without going

into the well. Thus in order to obtain

greater power and fix the wedges more se-

curly in place, it will be observed that by

pulling up on the rod 32, the toggle links 34

will eause the wedge blocks 35 to press with

great power against the wedges 33, and thus

fx the pump casing in place wherever de-

sired,

The pump shaft 39 is inclosed in a shaft

easing 20, which latter is made in joints and

may be of any desired length. The pump

shaft also is made in sections 39, 39’, 39”,

shih are attached together by means of

diding keys so as to allow of some vertical

play with relation to each other. From Fig-

ure 5 it will be seen that the shaft 39 passes

through a block 47, and at its top is fixed in

the bearing block 48 by means of the pin 50,

as shown in Figure 4. The next section of

the shaft, 39’, is inserted into the block 48,

and prevented from rotating by means of the

tey 49, which is splined therein, The weight

of the shaft and pump below the block 47 is

carried by the block 48; and from Figure 8 it

rill be seen that a similar arrangement is

made at the top of the next section of the

staft casing, where the block 47’ supports the

weight of the section of shaft 39° by means

of the collar 48’, connected by a pin and key

38 before.

At the top, the casing 20 is closed and is

povided with a stuffing box 50, closed by the

ap 51, at the top of the shaft 39”. The

taft 39 is fixedly keyed to the vanes 38 of

the centrifugal pump, and below the pump

‘sing 21 is a pipe 22, which extends down

teow the water level and is extended any

isired depth in the well.

The casing 20 also contains a tubular rod

44, which has a bearing in the block 47 on top

of the pump casing 37, as shown in Figure 5,

and is provided with a square opening which

codperates with the head of the screw 42,

used for adjusting the cap 41 of the packing

box 40 for the pump, and compressing the

packing in place. In order that this cap 41

may be raised and lowered evenly, the screw

42 is provided with a sprocket wheel, and

two other screws of a similar kind are dis-

tributed about the cap, as shown in Figure 6,

and connected by means of the sprocket

chain 46, so that by means of the tubular

shaft 44, all three of said screws 42 may be

turned at once to compress the packing in

box 40.

This pipe or tubular shaft 44 also serves

the purpose of providing convenient means

for forcing the liquid out of the pump shaft

casing. By forcing air in at the top of the

casing 20, by means of the pipe 52, the liquid

can be foreed down to the bottom of said eas-

ing 20, and by means of the small opening

45, in the bottom of the tubular shaft 44, the

fluid can be forced out at the top 54, and

keep the casing clear in order to leave the

bearings clean therein and not interfere with

the working of the pump, or by forcing fluid

in at the top 54, the operation will be re-

versed, and the fluid ejected from pipe 52.

It will be noticed that the weight of the

pump and its shaft is supported at each end

of the sections of the casing by the blocks 47,

47’, etc. By reason of this arrangement the

pump shaft and the shaft casing can be made

in separable sections, and consequently the

pump may be inserted at any desired depth

and the parts assembled before putting them

into the well. The wedge system illustrated

for tightening the pump easing in place may

also, if desired, be used to center it with re-

spect to the easing. The outlet pipe 23 is

also preferably made in sections to corre-

spond with the sections of the pump shaft

casing.

In Figures 10 to 13 I have shown a modi-

fied form of the apparatus which uses a sim-

ple series of wedges for fixing the pump in

place, as illustrated best in Figure 11. The

pump easing has a platform 61, and a de-

pending ring flange 66, and a series of wedges

63 are placed around the depending flange

66, and are connected to the top platform by

means of a series of screws 65. A series of

cooperating wedges 62 may also be provided,

suspended from the platform 61 by means of

the serews 64, and the two series of wedges

surround the whole casing. It will some-

times be convenient to dispense with the out-

let pipe 23, and extend the casing 16 to the

top, to act itself as the conveying channel

for the liquid. In each case, of course, the

pump casing 21 and platform 61 will be made

water-tight within the casing 16, and for this

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purpose the wedges 62 will be made in over-

lapping sections, in order to break the joints

seen in Figure 12. The pumps will then de-

liver directly into the upper casing. It will

be plain that by turning the screws 65, the

bottom wedges are drawn upward against

the wedges 62, by which the casing of the

pump is fixed in any desired place and tight-

ened in the well casing 16. The screws 65

may be operated by means of a_ socket

wrench placed upon a long rod and reached

from the surface of the ground, or may be ex-

tended to the surface of the ground, as de-

sired.

In the case illustrated, the top of the pump

shaft may be provided with a pulley 25, as

before, and a bearing fixed on some part of

the framework, as on the cross beam 57.

Extending downward from the beam 57 may

be provided a timber 56, and part way down

a bearing and support provided for the cas-

ing of the pump shaft 60, by means of the

block 67, which is carried upon a cross frame

68; and a packing box therein, 71, is closed

by a screw 70, the whole being attached to

the timber 56 as shown in Figure 13. Be-

low this point the shaft 39 may be inclosed

in a casing 60, which is screwed in the block

67, as shown in said Figure. For additional

security the block 67 may be attached to the

timber 56, by means of the strap 69, which

surrounds the same. The casing 60 may be

in sections and of any desired length.

I prefer, generally, to allow for free flow of

water down the well outside of the pump cas-

ing and the pump, in order that the water may

be drained into the well when desired, rather

than pumping the water out; which | attain

by dropping the wedges 63 and thereby

loosening the wedges 62 from the casing 16,

permitting water above pump to pass into

the strata supplying the well.

I generally prefer to extend the piping 22

entirely through the first water bearing

stratum and into the second, as shown in the

screen 19; it being understood that the water

from the first stratum will flow down the

casing 18 to the second when the water level

falls sufficiently therefor.

In general I prefer the form of apparatus as

shown in Figure 1, both because the means

for fixing the pump in place is more easily ad-

justed, and because of the superior mount-

ing of the pump shaft inside its sectional cas-

ing as therein shown, and making the pump

shaft in sections. But in cases where the

pump will not be moved for a long time, the

device of Figure 11 may be used for wedging

it in place.

It will be seen that by fastening the pump

within the casing in such position as to leave

an unobstructed passage around it, I pro-

vide for draining water into the well in cases

where this is desired, as often happens when

fields are flooded, and when it is desired to

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drain the fields. The whole apparatus be

ing self-contained, can be put together in

proper form and lowered into the well a

once. It will be seen also that the to

levers used for actuating the wedges Px.

used or not, as desired, since the w

alone will be amply sufficient in the appara-

tus of Figure 1, as wellas in that of Figure 10,

I consider it of great advantage also to ar

range the pump shaft in a closed casing with?

stuffing box at surface of ground at top of

pump, so that by the use of the packing

boxes an air-tight chamber can be maip-

tained, and water kept out of the casing 20,

or kept filled with clean liquid, if desired,

thereby providing an efficient lubricating

system for all bearings of the pump.

The many advantages of this apparatus

will be apparent to those familiar with the

use of such devices, from inspection of the §

drawings.

Having thus described my invention and

illustrated its use, what I claim and desire to

secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. A pump provided with a closed driving §

shaft casing extending to the top of the well

from the pump, a pipe extending downwari

from the pump casing and means for fixing

the pump at any desired point in the well

casing, substantially as described, ’

2. A pump provided with a closed driving

shaft casing extending to the top of the well

from the pump, a pipe extending downward

from the pump casing and means for fixing

the pump at any desired point in the center!

of the well casing and sealing said shaft of

from water in the well, substantially as de

scribed.

3. The combination with a pump of an er

tensible pump shaft therefor means for sup-!

porting the pump at any desired point in the

well, and independent supports for the shaft

4. The combination of a rotary pump, and

extensible pump shaft and protecting casing

for the shaft, and means for supporting the!

pump and shaft and casing at any desirel

point within the well.

5. The combination with a rotary pump,

of a sectional pump shaft easing surrounding

the pump shaft and extending to the top of!

the well and means for fixing the pump it

position at any desired point of the well cas

ing.

6. In well mechanism in combination with

a pump, a series of wedges operated from the!

top of the well by means of links, a series of

wedges carried by the pump casing and op

erated by toggle links attached to a rod ex

tended to the top of the well, for the pur

poses specified. |

7. In combination with a well casing and

a pump, a series of wedges suspended by rods

from the top of the well for operating the

same to wedge the pump casing against the

well casing, substantially as described. |

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8, In well mechanism a pump casing pro-

sided with a series of wedges mounted upon

toggle links therein to wedge the said casing

inst the side walls of the well casing, sub-

stantially as described.

9, In well mechanism the combination

sith a pump casing, of a rotary pump of a

jointed pump shaft and a closed casing sur-

rounding the pump shaft from the pump to

the top of the well.

10. In well mechanism in combination

sith a pump and a closed shaft casing, a

pump shaft supported at intervals by blocks

pinned thereto and having splined joints in

sid blocks whereby the different sections of

the pump shaft may have vertical play with

relation to each other.

ll. A pump casing provided with a stuff-

ing box and stuffing box plug, a closed shaft

casing protecting the bearings from the wa-

ter screws for raising and lowering said plug

and means for moving all of said screws at

one and means for operating the screws

from the top of the well, substantially as de-

scribed.

12, In pump mechanism the combination

with wedges for fixing the pump in the well

casing, of a casing for the pump shaft, a col-

lar thereon and Jinks extending from said

cllar to the top of the well and to the said

wedges.

13. The combination with a pump and its

actuating shaft of a sectional casing therefor

provided at each end of each section with a

fred block with bearings for the shaft, the

asing being closed at the top and provided

with an air vent.

14. The combination with a pump of a

pump shaft casing closed at the top and bot-

tom and provided with an interiorly disposed

hollow rod for the escape of liquid from the

staft casing and an air inlet at the top of the

casing.

15. In well mechanism the combination

rith a rotary pump of a pump shaft made in

sections independently supported and joined

ty blocks and keys in the blocks and ends of

the shaft sections, and a closed casing around

the shaft.

16. A pump shaft made in sections, each

section being suspended on a bearing by

means of a block pinned to the shaft section

and the next section being splined into said

block to rotate therewith.

17. The combinatioin of a rotary pump,

of a pump shaft and shaft casing surrounding

the shaft, the shaft and casing being in sec-

tions and connected by bearings at each end,

and the shaft section being separately sup-

ported in each section of the casing, as de-

scribed,

18. In well apparatus the combination

with a pump and means for suspending it

from the top of the well, of a casing separat-

ing the pump and bearings from the well,

and devices for fixing it at any desired point

in the well casing, and means for operating

the fixing devices from the top of the well.

19. A pump shaft made in independently

supported sections and suspended in a closed 7

pipe and provided with bearings and means

for lubricating the same.

20. The combination of a well casing, a ro-

tary pump therein, and a line shaft for the

pump entirely closed off from the water in

the well.

21. The combination of a well casing, a ro-

tary pump therein, means for fixing it at any

desired point in the well, an extensible line

shaft for the pump and a shaft casing en- 30

tirely inclosing the shaft and bearings.

22. The combination of a well casing, a ro-

tary pump therein, means for fixing it at any

desired point, a shaft casing, and a discharge

outlet from the pump independent of the &§

shaft easing and communicating with the

pump easing only at the bottom of the well.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set

my hand, this 3d day of April, A. D. 1903, at

Chicago, Illinois.

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

Witnesses:

PauL CARPENTER,

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1006 Western Well Works, Inc., et al.

2—421. DIVISION IX.

1903

CONTENTS:

Application O. K. papers.

1. Rej. June 1/03.

2. Amendt. A, Feb. 1, 1904.

3. Rej. Feb. 15/04.

4. Amendt. B, Dee. 9, 1904.

5. Rej. Dee. 20/04.

6. Amendt. \/ Dec. 23, 1904.

7. Amendt. C, Dec. 31, 1904.

8. Rej. Jan. 13/05.

9. Amendt. \ Oct. 24, 1905.

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TITLE:

Improvement in Well Mechanism.

Class 103-PUMPS.

Rotary Single Piston.

154,704.

vs. Layne & Bowler Corporation. 1007

[Endorsed]: No, 485—Eq. Layne & Bowler

Corpn. vs. Western Well Works et al. Defts. Ex-

hibit “‘D.’”? Filed Sept. 3, 1920. W. B. Maling,

Clerk. By J. A. Schaertzer, Deputy Clerk.

No. 3627. United States Circuit Court of Ap-

peals for the Ninth Circuit. Filed Jan. 6, 1921.

F. D. Monckton, Clerk.

Defendants’ Exhibit ‘‘E.’’

In the District Court of the United States for the

Western District of Louisiana.

No. 925—IN EQUITY.

MAHLON E. LAYNE et al.,

Plaintiff,

Vs.

FRED I. GETTY,

Defendant.

OPINION.

This is a suit brought by Mahlon E. Layne, pat-

entee, and Layne & Bowler Company, his licensee,

for infringement of patent, with the usual prayer

for injunction, and an accounting for damages and

loss of profits. A preliminary injunction was re-

fused, and on appeal the ruling was affirmed with-

out prejudice on final hearing (222 Fed. 918).

The object of the patent in controversy is a pump-

ing apparatus for use with a rotary pump in a

drilled well, designed primarily for irrigation pur-

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poses. The invention claimed is not in the pump it-

self, but in the apparatus for the protection, lubri-

cation and alignment of the revolving shaft through

which the power is transmitted from the surface of

the ground to the blades of the pump near the bot-

tom of the well. From this rotary or centrifugal

pump, a pipe for discharging the water leads to the

ground, and this pipe and the shaft from a point im-

mediately above the pump are inclosed in a metal

easing extending from the pump casing to the sur-

face.

In this shaft casing bearings spaced about six

feet apart, and at each end, where the shaft passes

out of the casing, the specifications of the patent

call for an air tight packing box. This packing

box, however, has long since been abandoned and a

sleeve bearing, or bushing, is used in its place. The

shaft is oiled at the end above ground, and the oil

passes from bearing to bearing on down to the

end of the shaft where it escapes through the last

sleeve bearing or bushing, the clearance between

the shaft and the bushing being sufficient to permit

the passage of the oil. The patent originally pro-

vided a method of forcing the oil out of the eas-

ing from time to time by air pressure, but this is

not found necessary in actual use, since the sub-

stitution of the bushing for the packing box. The

effect of the constant feeding of oil during the

operation of the pump is to cause a pool to collect

above each of the bearings and the pressure of this

head of oil through the bearings and the bushing

at the bottom of the shaft keeps the water from

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entering. Thus, the casing is practically a closed

one against the entrance of dirt and sand which

would cut and wear out the bearings. These bear-

ings further serve the purpose of holding in a

straight line the shaft which otherwise would have

a tendency to bore out, or whip, when revolving at

high speed. These functions of the apparatus,

lubrication, protection and alignment, it is claimed,

are infringed by similar construction in the Getty

pump. The specifications covering the features of

the patent alleged to have been infringed are num-

bers 9 and 20, which read as follows:

**9. In well mechanism the combination with

a pump casing, of a rotary pump, of a joined

pump shaft and a closed casing surrounding

the pump shaft from the pump to the top of

the well.

20. The combination of a well casing, a

rotary pump therein, and a line shaft for the

pump entirely closed off from the water in the

well.”’

These two specifications, as held by the Court of

Appeals in Van Ness vs. Layne (213 Fed. 804), are

in effect the same, the only difference being that

in number 9, a jointed shaft is called for. No in-

fringement, however, is claimed because of defend-

ant’s use of a jointed shaft. Consequently, the two

specifications may be regarded as one and the same.

The defendant in answer first denies the validity

of the patent, anc second, denies, if the patent is

valid, that the Getty pump is an infringement. It

is claimed by defendant that several prior inven-

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tions, and particularly the Crannel pump, patented

several yeats before the Layne pump, embraced

substantially the same features as Layne’s patent,

and so anticipated the latter.

In the suit of Layne vs. El Campo Machine Com-

pany, from the Southern District of Texas (195

Fed. 83), involving this patent, the Circuit Court

of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, modified the decree of

the lower court sustaining the validity of claims

9, 13, 20 and others of the patent, by striking out

the finding of infringement as to all of the claims

except 18. The validity of claims 9 and 20 was

not passed on, but these claims were held not to have

been infringd.

Subsequently, in the case of Layne vs. Van Ness,

this court sustained the validity of claims 9 and 20

and held them infringed by the Van Ness pump.

The decree was affirmed by the Court of Appeals

(213 Fed. 804). The contention in the Van Ness

case, as in the case at bar, was that claims 9 and 20

of the Layne patent were invalid, having been in

effect, covered and anticipated by the Crannel

pump, previously patented.

The Crannel apparatus, which was not a com-

mercial success, provided for a closed casing around

the shaft transmitting power to a rotary pump,

but did not provide intermediate bearings along the

line of the shaft. This absence of intermediate

bearings is practically the only difference in prin-

ciple between the two mechanisms in so far as

claims 9 and 20 are concerned. It is urged by the

defendant that the adding of intermediate bearings

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to prevent the shaft from whipping does not in-

volve invention; that it is something that would

occur to anyone skilled in the art, and that, like-

wise, the method of oiling by letting the oil run

down from bearing to bearing, would occur to any-

one, and had always been the method of oiling

vertical shafts.

The Court is much impressed with this argument.

The insertion of additional bearings to prevent

whipping of the shaft where the distance between

bearings is too great, is as simple and natural a

thing to do as the putting in a fence of extra posts

to prevent sagging of a barbed wire, where the

posts of the panels are too far apart. Were the ‘

question a new one, I should be inclined to hold the

patent invalid, but the same issue was raised and

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directly passed on by this Court and by the Court F

of Appeals for this circuit, in the Van Ness ease :

sustaining the patent. :

It is contended by the defendant herein that the ‘

evidence in the Van Ness case was to the effect that

the Crannel pump would not work, whereas, by

physical demonstration on the trial of this case, the

contrary was shown, and the court therefore should

not feel bound by the ruling in the Van Ness case.

The opinion in the Van Ness case, however, does

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not appear to have been based on the evidence that ;

the Crannel patent would not work. The Court

held:

‘1. It seems quite clear that the idea of a

protected casing of a pump shaft without re-

strictive interpretation would contain no

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novelty and would not be patentable, and, if

this element in the patent is given the unre-

stricted meaning that its language admits of,

it would destroy the claim. The contention of

the defendant is that it should be given the

unrestricted generic meaning suggested by its

broad language, and that of complainant, that

the specifications should be looked to to inter-

pret the claim, and that it should be held to

mean only a protective casing of the kind and

with the functions set out in the specifications.

It seems that the complainant’s contention is

supported by the authorities cited in his sup-

plemental memorandum and that the argument

that the patent granted by the Government

should be construed so as to prevail rather

than be forfeited, since that must have been

the intention of the Patent Office, is a sound

one, for limiting the breadth of the language

of the claim to the disclosure of the specifiea-

tions of the patent, if necessary to sustain the

patent. If so limited, it would seem that the

protective casing intended to be covered by

the claim was one of the kind described in the

specifications and having the three functions

attributed to it by the specifications, namely:

(1) To exclude water and detritus from the

shaft and its bearings; (2) to provide a means

of lubricating the bearings of each section of

the shaft from the top of the well without re-

moving the apparatus from it; and (3) to align

the be

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