US142228A

US142228A - Improvement in water-wheels

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Publication number: US142228A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1873-08-26
Anticipated expiration: 1890-08-26

Description

E. HAGKETT.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT EEreE.

ELYMUS HACKETT, OF ULYSSES, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. l1.2,228, dated August 26, 1873; application filed May 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELYMUs HAGKETT, oi Ulysses, in the county of Potter and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Direct and Reaction Water-Wheels; 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 forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a top view, partly broken out. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a detail view, of the gate-slide. Fig. 4t is a detail bottom view, showing .the relative position of the two crown-wheels.

The invention relates to modes of utilizing `the reactionary power of water; and consists in the meanshereinafter fully described and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A is the casing, and B a reaction water-wheel, having the buckets C, end-curved at c, and provided with an inl wardly and rearwardly dipping flange, c.

The curve c serves to hold the water from contact with the side of chutes after the impact, and thereby prevents the water from spending its force anywhere but on the wheel itself.

By this construction, the impact of water vis first received upon the curved surface c,

which forms `a vertical cavity, and then thrown back with a reacting force upon the curved surface c, which forms an oblique cavity that runs out near the hub D, from which the main body G of buckets radiate. This serves to utilize, to a great extent, the reactionary force ofthe water after striking the wheel, so as to add its impulse in the same direction as that of the direct action.

E is the wheel-shaft, on which rotates the loose hub D, which has the radial buckets that have affixed beneath their discharge ends a crown-wheel, F, that works in a pinion, j', on a shaft, E', to turn machinery. Of course vthe power may also be applied to machinery through the shaft, and in the usual manner. Gr are a series of rigid chutes in which work the gates H that regulate the water to be admitted to the buckets. These gates have lugs h, which Work in guide-grooves a a of the case. These gates are connectedv by rods I with a rotary disk, J, that is vibrated in a small arc to adjust the gates. a2 are slots made through the casing, and in which the rods I move, their movement being limited by the length of the slots, and their direction necessarily correspondent thereto.

By this arrangement of the gates, they may be conveniently adjusted in the chutes, their close proximity to the outer edges of buckets being always preserved.

Below the wheel B is a secondary wheel, K, of much less diameter, and rotating loosely on the shaft E. It is provided with the series of buckets k, curved backward. As the water is thrown from the curved surface c of buckets C, the reacting force sends it against the buckets k, and causes them to rotate the wheel K. This wheel has a crown-wheel, E2, on its periphery that works in a pinion, c, o n the shaft E. Now, in order to enable this wheel to exert any power upon shaft E', the pinion c must tend to move at a greater velocity than the shaft E would do under the impulse ofthe wheel B alone. Hence the pinion c is made very small, and has but few teeth compared to those of the crown-wheel.

Having thus described my invention, what- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The buckets G endcurved at c, and provided with an inwardly and rearwardly dipping flange, c', as and for the purpose specified.

2. The backwardly-curved working faces k of wheel K, combined with the faces c of bucket C, forming an oblique cavity running out near the hub D, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of two water-wheels, one placed above the other, both revolving about the same center, and each provided with its own crownwheel,.of the unequal pinions ef, arranged and operating on the same shaft E', as and for the purpose set forth.

- ELYMUS HAGKETT.

Witnesses SoLoN O. KEMON, T. D. DURBIN OUEAND.