US114211A - Improvement in water-wheels - Google Patents

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Improvement in Water '-Wheels.

Patented April 25,1871.

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Patented April 25,1871.

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Letters raient No. 114,211daad Annet; 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN lWATER-WHEELS. ,V

The Schedule rei'erred to in these Letters .Patentland makingpaxt of the same.

in the county of Champaign and State of Ohio, have invented a new and improved Direct-Action Triple- Vent Water-Wheel; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing .making a part ot' this specification, 'in which- Figure l is a top View of the case;

Figure 2 is a horizontal section and wheel; i

Figure 3 is a sectional central elevation;

, Figure 4 is a rear elevation of the bucket; and

Figure 5is a perspective view of the gate.

This invention relates to awater-wheel constructed nn the theory that all the eect produced by the water is due to its direct action on the buckets, the idea that there is' a reactive force being a mistaken one, the fact being that, after its direct action has ceased, the Water is simply a dead weight on the wheel, andshonldbe gotten'ridof as quickly as possible.

The invention therefore consists in such a construction of the gates, chutes, wheel, and case as facilitates, to the greatest extent, bot-h the direct action oi' the water and its escape from the wheel after the direct action has ceased.

Referring to the drawinga, figs. 2 and 3, alle the stationary'blocks placed between the upper and lower plates ofthe case, and havingr between them the chutes l).

The longer sides of the chutes are tangential'to the wheel, and, consequently, conduct the water square againstthe buckets.

The shorter sides of the chiites are inclined toward the longer sides as they approach the wheel up to the points c, from which points the shorter sides-arc parallel with the longer ones, and at a distancetherefrom equal to the width of the front flanges ofthe buckets.

This construction brings the point 0i con'ipression in each chute next to the wheel, and therefore causes the water to be delivered in a solid body to the bucket without spreadl'ig, and in a condition todproducc the best eii'ect. Friction is also confined chiefly to the parallel sidcsofthe chutes.

The buckets are constructed with a vertical front flange, d, a vertical side llangc, c, and an inclined bottoni ila-nge, f. n

The front flanges el are oi' the saine width as the inner mouths of the chutes, and stand in radial lilies relatively to the wheel, and, consequently, they stand at right angles to the line of entrance ol' the water;

through `*the case or,'in other words, receive the impact of the latter squarely. p

The side and bottom lianges e f serve to hold the water long enough in contact with the front anges to cause it to expend'its force thereupon without spreading or flying o".

lfhe side anges stand atan angle equal to onehalf the width of the front flanges, so as to give the water vent toward the center `of the wheel when necessary, and the bottom flanges are inclined downward both longitudinally and transversely,l so. as to give'ample vent at the bottom.

The measure of thelongitudinal pitch of the bottom flanges is one-half the width of the side anges,

and the measure of their transverse pitch is one-halt' the width ofthe front ilanges. l

. The lower-,ring g stands olf from the inner edge of the bottom `plate a distance equal tothe width ofthe front ianges clso as to allow the Water that falls from the bottoni llanges, under the centrifugal action ofthe wheel, a suicieut opportunity for escape.

The gates h, gs.,2, 3, and 5, are cylindrical blocks, with tapering openings il located between the blocks a, and having their seats in said blocks .and in the upper'and lower plates.

The gates h are made to rotate on their truunions by any'suitable means. When closing they do not displace the water, nor are'they at all liable to be affected in their movements by the water operating entirely independent thereof. As long as they are in any degree open the gates direct the water against the tangential sides of the chutes. Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire Letters Patent, is

l. The chutes b, having their longer sides tangential to the wheel and the parallel parts oftheil shorter sides at a distance from the longer sides equal to the width of the front ilanges d, and their narrowest parts or points oi' compression next to the wheel, as specilied.

2. rlhe bucket, composed of the vertical flanges d c standingr at angles to each other, the former standing in lines radial to the wheel, and the bottom ilange f inclined downward and outward, both longitudinally and transversely, as described.

to secure by 3. The gate h, provided with the tapering openingI i, and placed between the blocks a, as explained.

Witnesses: E. L. SMALL.

SoLoN C. KEMON, '.liros. l). D. OUnANn.

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