US1155881A - Water-power. - Google Patents

Description

F. BRUNGESS.

WATER POWER.

APPLICATION HLED JULY 22.1914.

Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

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' WATER POWER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22.-19\4.

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FRANK BRUNGESS, F PORTLAND, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-rowan.

Specification of Letterslatent.

Application filed July 22, 1914. Serial No; 852,501. r

power in which is embodied an endless traveling motor element including endless belts and blades WlllCll connect them together, the blades being arranged to operate chute so that the power and weight of the water are both utilized in the operation of the motor element and a water power or maximum efliciency is provided.

()ne object of the invention is to effect improvements in the construction of the water power so that the motor element, together with the chute may be shifted to either operative or inoperative position.

Another object is to effect improvements in the construction of the water power to provide for the support of the chute and relieve the pivot of the chute of the weight of the chute and of the column of water therein.

' The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed. V

In the accompanying drawings :Figur 1 is a side elevation of a water power constructed in accordance with my invention showing the same in working position in full lines and in inoperative position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the same. Fig. 1 is a detail vertical sectional view of the same on the plane indicated by the line of Fig. 1.

The support for my improved water power is here shown as a frame 1 but in practice the support may be a structure of masonry or any other suitable material and may be of any suitable design. The supporting frame 1 is here shown as comprising a pair of side members 2 each of which consists of a sill 3, a pair of inclined upwardly converging posts t, a plate 5 connecting the upper ends of said posts and a supporting bar 6 which also connects said posts and is arranged in a horizontal posiflume 9 is supported on the bar 8.

tion and at a suitable distance above thesill. The side members of the frame are connected together by lower and upper cross bars 78 on one side. The discharge end of the A pair of bearing blocks 10 is secured on the plates 5 and a shaft 11 is mounted in said bearing blocks and is provided with a power transmitting wheel 12'for operating a power belt or the like and the said shaft is also provided. with a pair of sprocket wheels 13. A. chute 14- is provided onone side, at its upper end, with a pair of hanger bars 15 which are pivotally mounted on the shaft 11 so that the chute is suspended from the said shaft and may be moved toward and from the discharge end of the flume; when moved to the discharge end of the flume the chute re ceives the water from the flume at the upper end of the chute so that all of the water from the flume is caused to pass down through and be discharged from the chute. hen the chute is moved from the flume the water is discharged from the latter without passing through the chute, as will be understood. To relieve the shaft 11, which forms the pivot of the chute of the weight ofthe chute and prevent undue stress from being imposed upon said shaft I provide the chute at its sides with supports 16 which bear on the supporting bars 6 andhave their lower ends rounded and arranged slidably on the same side with the hanger bars 15 with -a pair of downwardly extending arms 17 which are provided with vertical slots 18 and are'adjustably secured to the chute by means of clamping bolts, 19 which admit of the vertical adjustment of the arms. A shaft 21 is journaled in bearings 22 at the lower ends of the arms 17 and is provided at its ends with sprocket wheels 23. Endless sprocket chains 24 connect the sprocket wheels 23 and the sprocket wheels 13 and said sprocket chains are hence arranged so that one lead thereof passes through the chute. The sprocket chains are connected by blades 25 which are of such size and shape as to enable them to extend transversely across, fit snugly in and pass readily through the chute from its upper end to its lower end in succession when the power is in Patented Got. 5, rain.-

operation. These endless chains, connecting blades and the sprocket wheels or pulley elements on which the chains are mounted constitute a flexible endless traveling motor element as will be understood.

When the chute and the motor element are moved so as to close the upper side of the chute against the discharge end of the flume the weight of the water in the chute, as well as its downwardly moving current is eX- erted on the blades in the chute and on one side of the motor element so as to cause the motor element to move as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1, and all of the blades are successively acted upon by the water in the chute and the full force of the water as well as its weight is availed of in the operation of the power. The upper shaft which is revolved by the endless traveling motor element transmits the power to the point desired.

When it is desired to discontinue the operation of the water power this may be effected by moving the chute so as to space it from the discharge end of the flume thus preventing water from passing through the chute and operating on the blades of the flexible endless traveling motor element.

While I have herein shown and described one form of my invention I would have it understood that changes may be made in the construction, form and proportion of the various parts without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope of the appended claims. I or instance enclless belts may be substituted for the endless chains and pulleys may be substituted for the sprocket wheels as will be understood.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A water power of the class described comprising a chute inclosed on all sides and an endless traveling motor element having one of its leads arranged to move downwardly in and through the chute and blades carried by and forming a part of said motor element, said chute being mounted for adjustment, and a flume arranged to dis charge in the upper side of the chute when the latter is adjusted to operative position.

2. In combination, a flume, a pivotally mounted chute arranged for adjustment toward and from the discharge end of the flume and an endless traveling flexible motor element having one lead arranged for movement downwardly in and through the chute.

3. In a water power of the class described, a supporting structure, a shaft mounted in bearings thereon, a flume, a chute having its upper end pivotally connected to said shaft and arranged to be moved toward and from the discharge end of the flume to receive or avoid water discharged from the fiume,

revoluble elements mounted at the lower end of and supported by the chute, revoluble elements on said shaft, endless flexible elements connecting said revoluble elements and blades connecting the said endless flexible elements and arranged, together with said endless flexible elements for movement downwardly and through the chute.

4:. In a water power of the class described a supporting structure, a shaft mounted in bearings thereon, a fiume, a chute having its upper end pivotally connected to said shaft and arranged to be moved toward and from the discharge end of the flume to receive or avoid water discharged from the flume,

revoluble elements mounted at the lower end ranged, together with said endless fieXible elements for movement downwardly and through the chute, and supporting means for the chute, independent of said shaft, to relieve the latter of the weight of the chute.

In testimony whereof I afiix my sigma ture in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK BRUNGESS.

Witnesses:

CHARLns FULs, WM. J. TRANsUn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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