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Claymills Pumping Engine Linkage Apparatus
The flywheel and pump parallel linkage in the Claymills sewage pumping station at Stretton near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, UK
Two mirrored-pairs ( i.e. four engines ) were installed by Gimsons of Leicester in 1885 for the purpose of pumping sewage in the Burton treatment works where special arrangements were needed to deal with the effluent of the local major brewing industry.
The engines were always worked in balanced pairs, with the other pair on standby.
They are Wolff double-compound jet-condensing Watt-type beam engines. Each unit has a 24-inch bore 6-foot stroke high-pressure cylinder exhausting to a 38-inch 8-foot low-pressure cylinder. The valve apparatus is of the Cornish pattern.
Each unit rocks a wrought-iron beam that powers a 24-foot diameter 24-ton flywheel via a Watt parallel linkage.
The sewage is moved by the illustrated reciprocating ram mechanism that has a 21-inch bore pump cylinder of 6-foot stroke that thus draws 0.4087 metric tonnes of wastewater per stroke. Accordingly each balanced pair shifts about three-quarters of a long ton per stroke.
Claymills Pumping Engine Linkage Apparatus
The flywheel and pump parallel linkage in the Claymills sewage pumping station at Stretton near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, UK
Two mirrored-pairs ( i.e. four engines ) were installed by Gimsons of Leicester in 1885 for the purpose of pumping sewage in the Burton treatment works where special arrangements were needed to deal with the effluent of the local major brewing industry.
The engines were always worked in balanced pairs, with the other pair on standby.
They are Wolff double-compound jet-condensing Watt-type beam engines. Each unit has a 24-inch bore 6-foot stroke high-pressure cylinder exhausting to a 38-inch 8-foot low-pressure cylinder. The valve apparatus is of the Cornish pattern.
Each unit rocks a wrought-iron beam that powers a 24-foot diameter 24-ton flywheel via a Watt parallel linkage.
The sewage is moved by the illustrated reciprocating ram mechanism that has a 21-inch bore pump cylinder of 6-foot stroke that thus draws 0.4087 metric tonnes of wastewater per stroke. Accordingly each balanced pair shifts about three-quarters of a long ton per stroke.