Bedplate from bob wall
Bedplate from bob wall
Cornish pumping engine, by Harvey & Co., Hayle, 1863; comprising the metallic parts and wooden parts of the engine house from Carpalla China Clay Quarry, near St. Austell
Bedplate from bob wall
32 new brasses for gudgeons (made in Museum; require fitting to items 2)
Working beam or bob; lacks pin for back links of parallel motion; otherwise complete.
Cylinder bottom
4 holding down bolts for item 5 with nuts & washers
Cylinder cover with gland and packing and lubricator
Piston with rod, piston rod cap and piston rings.
Pair of great links of parallel motion complete
Back links of parallel motion complete
Pair of parallel bars of parallel motion, complete with brasses etc & 2 nuts each
Arbor with loop to which item 12 (parallel motion) are secured.
Pair of radius rods of the parallel motion
Arbor for anchorage point of items 14 with pair of bolting brackets.
Top nozzle with valves and 2 of 3 bonnets (one missing) for stop valve steam inlet and equilibrium valve. Spindle of equilibrium valve is bent
Flanged elbow of short pipe section, possibly for steam inlet pipe
Perpendicular pipe with brasses for exhaust valve weigh shaft, gland ring for joint in bottom nozzle, bottom nozzle & exhaust valve complete, all assembled together
Upper part of eduction pipe with guides for plug rods complete with glands
Lower end of eduction pipe and condenser body joined together (rust joint)
Air pump body with foot (rust joint) and head (bolted joint)
Air pump bucket, rod, cap and pin and cover with gland complete
Air pump rod complete with brasses, keeper, gib & cotter
Top part of pump spear with 2 hanging plates and 2 flitch plates
Bearing block for pump spear and gib and cotter
1 stay to sword with loop; cotter and nuts fitted
2 heavy stools; purpose unknown but perhaps to catch blocks
Cylinder false cover (cleading) ;in 2 parts, one part with mechanical lubricator fitted.
Feed pump rod with brasses, keeper gib & cotter
Feed pump complete with plunger and clevis, suction valve with relief valve and delivery valve. Clack of relief valve & rod to hold it down removed to item 64
Wrought iron pipe with elbow & flange (2.5" nom) being suction line to feed pump.
Galvanised tank that was used as the hot well
Injection valve body (for valve & rod see item 49)
Left weigh post with brasses for arbors & pin for catches
Right hand weigh post with brasses for arbors and two pins for catches with collars washers & pins
Head of weigh frame with 2 glands for plug rod guides
Weigh shaft with 3 levers and 4 pillars (1 detached) and 2 other pillars to support the spindle guide.
3 Valve spindle loops (stop steam of equilibrium), spindle guide for these (fits on pillars of item 39); exhaust valve spindle cap and lifting link, exhaust valve weighshaft with 2 levers and rod to exhaust valve arbor, 3 catches with weights
3 arbors with all levers, sectors etc in place
2 rods from steam & equilibrium arbors to levers on weighshaft
3 hanging rods for the arbors, 2 to attach to balance boxes item 44, and one with hook end
2 balance boxes on beams with trunions. (Beaming stools item 78; old iron from boxes amongst item 67)
Rod from exhaust arbor to work injection valve
Arbor with two levers to go below working floor for working injection valve, with one bearing plate (of 2).
Rod to go from item 46 to item 48 (arbor to arbor)
Arbor with 2 levers to straddle condenser cistern, with two plummer blocks
Steam and exhaust cataract complete
Improvised cock spanner to control steam exhaust cataract being an iron pipe with end squared and a lever pinned on complete with bearing plate
Steam and exhaust cataract rod (forked lower end with elongated loops)
Steam and exhaust cataract loop and two guides for loops and rod (bushes loose)
Equilibrium cataract complete, with drop link to item 55
Lever on arbor on pair of light stools, used for resetting equilibrium cataract
Control rod for equilibrium cataract in two lengths - lower cranked with 2 nuts, upper with lantern screw, hand knob and bracket
Equilibrium cataract rod with roller head and guide
Spindle for stop valve, with handwheel, bearing pillar, forked end with clevis screwed on, bevel wheel & lever for automatic regulating gear
Light rod with ball weight for engaging automatic regulating gear
"St. Austell Govenor" comprising arbor with double gathering pallet striking arm and counterpoise arm on 2 pillars screwed to 2 bars, counterweight detached.
Left plug rod with two tappets, nut & pin
Right plug rod with cut-off slide nut & pin
Upper plug rod with horizontal head of plug frame, and strap, brasses, gib and cotter
4 tappets and clack and pin with clevis of feed pump relief valve
4 'U' shaped bars. 4 large & 4 small plates with holes, presumably keepers for holding down bolts & 4 cotters from cylinder holding down bolts.
A quantity of stud bolts, nuts and washers, many of these would suit the steam joints
Some springs (from U.S. piston rod packing ?), clevis pins (from gear?) and a quantity of rough iron components including 2 chaudron wheels. Many of these served as balance weights for the cataracts and balance boxes (see photograph in technical file)
Spare piston rod cap.
Two wooden beams for driving floor
5 wooden beams for middle chamber floor
Quantity of tongue & grooved floor boards (6 1/8" in face x 1 3/4" thick) from engine-house
"Plug door" (bob wall of house) and four parts of doorcase (incomplete as lacks short upright for top light. There was no cill)
Posts and rails from staging outside plug door
Staircase from driving floor to middle chamber
Simple staircase (either from driving floor, down floor or from middle chamber, up floor)
Length of handrail from staircase item 74
Short length of handrail, 2 handrail end posts, a quantity of balusters for staircase and horizontalk rail in middle chamber and a piece of side skirting for a staircase
A quantity of cylinder cleading boards (about a full-set; no cleading bands found)
One spring beam [ie longitudal timber from top chamber floor; there should be two]
Crank, to fit 1 3/4" nom base arbor (purpose not known).
A set of engineering drawings associated with the Carpella engine.
Part of the steam supply pipe to the engine, originally partly built into the house structure and removed when the engine house was dismantled.