US100623A - Marshal hays - Google Patents

Description

tuted garten geuert-wt (Militia.

MAR-SHA1. HAYs, orros'rom, onto.y

Letters Patent No. 100,623, dated .March 8, 1870.

Han- IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-GATES.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part: of the same.

Toall whom it ana/y concern.:

`Be it known that I, MAnsHAL Hays, of Fostoria, in the county ofjSeneca, andin the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Gates; and'do hereby declare that the following isa fnll,.c1ear, and exact description thereof, lreterence'being had tothe accor'npanyingV drawings and to the letters of .reference marked thereon, making a .part of this specification. i i

The nature of myinvention jconsists in the'constru tion and arrangement of a water-gate which will rise and fall withthe rise andvfall of the water, and at all i times present an obstruction above the surface of the waterfor preventing cattle from passing through.

In order to enable others skilled in Jthe art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed `to describeits construction and operation, referring to the annexed diawings,,which rep- 'resent a front-view of my gate.

. A A represent' two fence or gate-posts, placed one. Aon each side of a stream, andfconnected at their upperends by. means of a bar or beam', B.

''lo the under side of theb'ar 1,3', between the posts A A, is hinged a board,0,fin such amanher that itz,

can swing in eitherl direction.

. l .'To the lower edgeof the board G is, in like manner, hung ,another board, and so on as many as may be necessary., f I i To the under side of the last board is Vhiing a square .ban D, to make the gate heavy."

and always keeps on the surface ofthe water, so as to present an obstacle for cattle, 85e. Y

lam aware that a iiexible water-gate is not new. 4Having thus fully described my invention,

tels Patent, isf-f' l A l l"'llie herein-described flexible water-gate, formed of the boards C C and weighted boardfD,.when they are connected together by the ilatmetal plates D', having lperforations at each end, through which pass` the rings X, whereby thegate may operate ill either direction, Vas herein set forth.

, In' testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of August, 1869. MARSHAL HAYS.

Witnesses: JOHN BUCK,

JosIAn M. Davxi..

What I-cla'ini' as new, and desire to secure by Let-

Images