US14535A - Water-wheel - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES .IOHN HASELTINE, OF GOFFSTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WATER-WH EEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,535, dated March 25, 1856.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN HASELTINE, of

` Goffstown, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Vheels 'and I do hereby declare that the same are described and represented in the following specication and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art torina-ke and use my improvements, I will proceed to describe their construction and operation, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the tigures.

Figure l is a plan or top View of the wheel surrounded by`a scroll which conducts the water onto the wheel. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the shaft wi th one fioatvor bucket extending from each side. Fig, 3 is a representation of the Linder side of the wheel.

The nature of my invention consists in inaking the outer portion of the lloat upon which the water acts first radial, the inner portion, which receives the second action of the water, tangential, and the lower portion, upon which the water acts by its weight, to incline downward from the shaft or center of the wheel and from the tangential portion of the floats.

In the abovementioned drawings, A is a scroll by which the wheel B is supplied with water. It is iliade so deep as to allow the radial and perpendicular portion f of the floats to turn freely in it while it gradually diminishes in width to its termination. The radial portionof the float f is connected to the shaft D of the wheel B by the tangential portion C of the iioat, which is made perpendicular or parallel with the shaft D, as represented. The inclined portion Cf of the float is joined to thelower edge ofthe tangential portion so as to incline downward from `the tangential portion to its edge, and from the shaft to its periphery, or where it joins the hoop E, which hoop E surrounds the extremities of the inclined portion C of the floats and may be joined tothem. ThehoopEis representedin sectioninFig. 2. The shaftD is provided with pivots Gr G, which may be fitted to turn in appropria-te boXes tted for them. The floats above mentioned may be made of wood orof wrought or cast iron, or the wheel may be cast whole,

as preferred. The water enters the scroll A, as indicated by the arrows, and acts rst on the radial portions f j' of the iioats, and as it is confined on the outside by the scroll it necessarily turns toward the shaft of the wheel and acts on the tangential portion C of the floats, and after it has communicated its inotion to the radial and tangential portions of the iioats it- (the water) acts by its Weight on the inclined portions C of the floats, which slip from under it as it Ydescends and leaves the wheel, and as the inclined portions C of 'the iloats descend from the tangential portion and from the shaft D the Water has a tendency7 to iiow or run toward the periphery of the wheel as it descends through it, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2.

It is confidently believed by those who use l this wheel that it yields a greater amount of effective power than any other in proportion to its cost and the quantity of Water'applied to it..

I believe thatI have described the construction, operation, and use of inyiinprovenients so as to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use them. I will now specify what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, to wit:

I claim- Making the outer portion f of the floats radial, the second portion C tangential, and the third and last portion C to incline downward from the shaft D and from the tangential portion C when the same or the several parts are constructed, combined, and arranged substantially as described, so that the water will y act against the two first by propulsion and upon the latter by its weight.

JOHN HASELTINE.

Witnesses:

- JOSEPH B. CLARK, J No. D. IEVING.

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