US1111350A - Current-motor. - Google Patents

Description

E. S. BAYLEY.

CURRENT MOTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1913.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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Emery .5 507/67 THE NORRIS PETERS 60.. PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHING TON u r E. S. BAYLEY.

I CURRENT MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1913. 1,1 1 1,350, Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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' jamm s. BAYLEY; or! SPOKANE, wAsnIneToN; Assrcnon, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, or ONE-HALF. TO nAnn-IsoN A. DENNEYMAND ONE-HALFMTO ROBERT T; LAURENCE.

To all wh'o m itmdy concern -Be it known that I,'-EMERY S. 'BAYLEY, a

citizen' of the United States; residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and adapted to be submerged in a flowing stream and presenting improved features for taking power and motion from the motion of the fl wing water. I

a vertical shaft with horizontally and radially extending shafts extending from the 1 main shaft with'blades operating in pairs and mounted upon the radially extending shafts in improved manner to take power 7 from the moving stream.

A further object of the invention is" to provide improved structure for supporting the radially extending arms and the blades carried thereby.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved means for connecting the radial shafts with the main shaft.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain .novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved current motor removed from supporting frames or struc-v tures -F1g. 2 1s a transverse sectional v1ew "of the improved motor taken on a vertical plane and seen from the down stream side.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views. I i of I The improved current motorwhich forms the subject matter of this application comprises a vertical shaft 10 which may be Imounted in any approved supporting frame: I work; here hown for example as suspended from floats 11 by a framework 12 but it is to be understood that any; means 7 of submerging the motor within the flowing stream is equally within the scope of this invention. About thecentral shaft 10 a plurality of rings as 13, Hand 15 are provided concentric with the shaftand rigidly Specification of LettersPatentL:

ngr r h objea of the mventionlis it'd v provide a'submerged current motor having replaced or a new blade cURRENT-iuoron.

Patented spt. 22, 1914..

V hpplication filed Mayl2, 19 13. Serial No. 767,193..

connected therewith loy means of rods 16 and 17. I The rods' 16 are connected di 'rectly to the lower ends of posts 18"while the rods 17 are connected directly to the lower endsof posts 19 with the ring 14 connected to both the tops of the posts 19 .and the bottoms of the posts 18, while the ring 13 is connected with the tops of the posts 18 and the ring lo with the bottoms of the posts-19- By'this arrangement a rigid structure connected with the central shaft is provided with the posts .18 and 19 properly spaced vertically and in "staggered rela ion about such shaft. vertical shaft; 10. sleeves =or pipes 20. and 12 near the top are inserted, which said sleeves are squared upon their insides or otherwise proportioned to receive squared or multiangular Shafts 22 inserted therein, the opposite ends of said shafts finding bearings in the tops of posts 18 many ap proved manner as by forming trunnions 23 thereon which are inserted through said posts. Intermediate the sleeves 20 and the bottom of the shaft other sleeves 2 land 25 are also inserted of similar construction and also adapted to receive shafts 26 which likewise are provided with bearing means in the posts 19, as for instance the trunnions 27. I

Upon the squared or multiangular shafts 22 and 26 blades are secured as 28, such securing meansbeing in any approved manner but preferably by means of ears 29 secured rigidly to the blades and attached to the squared shafts 22. and 26 by means of set screws 30. The ear at the side of the blade adjacent the vertical shaft 10 is so positioned as to abut against the extrem- 'ities of the sleeves 20 or 24 and to holdsuch sleeve in position and hold the shafts '22 and 26 in their bearings in the posts 18 and 19. It will be apparent that when the set screws 30 are loosened the shafts 22 and 26 may be slidably moved into the sleeves 20 and 24: to displace the trunnions 23 and 27 whereby the shafts may be taken out and put in position as circumstances may requir It will be understood that in operation the current flowing in the direction of the view of Fig. 1 will impinge against the blades 28 at the right hand side offthe figure and hold such blades against the rods 16 at the bottom sides to present the broad Through the side to the current but at the opposite side the blades will be feathered or in horizontal position to present/little or no resistance to the passageof the current. The blades upon opposite ends of the connected shafts are feathering its companion blade. It will be, thelfefore, apparent that upon one side of a the shaft 10 all ofthe blades Will present broadsides t0 the current While'upon the opposite side of the shaft all ofthe blades. Willhe feathered presenting little or no reist c and tha the bladfls-Will automatically. change fr.0m $11 211 broad side to feathered positionas-the structure rotates ab ut it ve t cal axis v lr laim:

a .currentmotor, a frame, a Vertically diseased shaft'ietatable'with said frame, a

sl e e r ,ta able extending ally e dradiaHy a 'seetion, v

ing an interior of polygonal H pairpof blade shafts ha ing polygonal inner ends'non-rotatively fitted in the ends of said sleeve and having shouldered outer ends rotatively journaled in said frame,

blades "having'ears non-rotatively fitted on said blade shafts to dispose theblades at right angles to each other, and means, for

securing bneofthe Tears of eachbladeito its blade $111111 in abuttin-g relation with one end of said sleeve to prevent longitudinal:

'movement ofthe bladeshaftsfout of'bearingg relation "with said frame, substantially. as "40 described.

In testimony whereof l afiiii rnysign atirre in presence of two Witnesses;

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HAROLD. SGANTLEBURY, v EDNA l31aorn1ts.-. a

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