US110912A

US110912A - Improvement in rotary engines

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Publication number: US110912A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-01-10
Anticipated expiration: 1888-01-10

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. ROTARY ENGINE. 110.110,912. Pa1en1ed-1an-1o, 1871.

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proved steam-engine.

` SAMEL GIBSON, OF LANCASTER, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF, ALEXANDER L. HAYES,

`or SAME PLAGE, AND J. W. e. WIEnMAN, or YORK', PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 110,912, dated January 10, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT `IN no1-Am! ENGINES.

The Schedule referred to in there Patent and mung part o! the lame.

` .To allwh'om it may concern.-

on,"making a part of this specification.

My present invention is intended as an improvement uponthe centrifugal rotary 'engine for which "Letters" Patent were granted to me October 4, 1870;

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It consists in tbe-construction and arrangement of an outer and an inner wheel, the outer wheel being stationary vwhile the inner revolves.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to I which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will uo'w proceed to describe its `construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, inv which-' Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, and Figure 2 a transverse vertical' section of my iin- A represents the outer wheel or circula-r casing,

Erovided on one side in the center with asteam-chest,

intov which the steam is admitted through the pipe C.

Around the entire inner circumference of the wheel or casing A, which is stationary, is placed a series of buckets, a a, as shown in g. 1.

In the center of the casing A' is placed a circular box or chest, D, provided with two journals b and d., The journal b passes4 through the center ofthe offsde ot' the casingfand has a. bearingat any suitable point on the outside thereof. u

Unthis journal, which is solid, is placed a pulley or cog-wheel, E, to communicate motion to any machinery desired to be driven. llie other fournal, d, is hollow, and passes into the steam-chest where it has its bearing in adisk, e,

attached by suitable arms Vto the nut j, which closes the outer end of said steam-chest.

Thus, a communication is established between the steamfchest B and the box 1), so that the steam admitted into said ohest may pass through the hollow journal dintothe box D.

From the box D two hollow arms h, curved, as shown, lead to two bucketsf i formed in the inner rim or wheel G. Y

as to form with each of the buckets a in .succession a steam-box, into which the'steam passes from or through' 'the hollow arms h. causingy the inner wheel G to revolve in a direction opposite to that at which the steam is admitted.

lhe buckets-11 t are further so arrangedv with relation to each otherthat when one of them forms such a steam-box as just mentioned the other isopen, and cioe versa, thus alternating to cause the steam to produce said rotar;r motion ofthe wheel. Y v

The -steam is exhausted b y passing through holes in the wheel G tdthe inside thereof; and thence through the pipe H to any point desire Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure -by Letters Patent, is

1. The stationary wheel or' casing A, provided with aseriesof'buekets, a @extending around itsentire revolving wheelG provided with two buckets t' t', 4all constructed and operating substantially'as aud`for the purposes herein set forth.l

2. '.lhe combination of the outer stationary wheel d, disk e, armslth, inner-revolving wheel G, buckets arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

" InV testimony thatI claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of November, 1870.

' SAMUEL GIBSON.-

Witnesses: f

GEO. ll/I. KEINE,

THOMAS J. Davis.

rIhis wheel is'ot` such site as to fit close to the ends ofthe buckets a a., and the buckets i t are of such size linside circumference, inV combination with the inner A with bucketsoaa., .steam-chest B, box D, journals ,b

t' @and outlet or exhaust-pipe' H, all constructed and