US1750901A - Water-regulating sluice gate - Google Patents

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March 18, 1930. EW 1,750,901

WATER REGULATING SLUICE GATE Filed April 7, 1928 Q Q 25 3 2 .42 27 INVENTOR 26 RED NEWELL A TTORNEY.

Patnted Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRED NEWELL, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA WATER-REGULATING SLUICE GATE Application filed. April 7, 1928, Serial No. 268,290, and in Canada May 30, 1927.

My inventionrelates to improvements in Water regulating sluice gates.

An important object of the invention is to provide means for properly heating the embedded parts of the gate, and other parts adjacent to such parts, to prevent the formation of, or to melt, ice from around portions of the gate and the guide means for the same.

A further object of the invention is to provide heating means which is integral with or forms a part of portions of the guide means, producing a simplified construction, which not only affords heating facilities but strengthens the guide means.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same, v

Figure 1 is a plan view of a sluice gate, and guide means therefor, the same being partly diagrammatic,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same,

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on line 3-3 of Figure 4,

Figure 4 is an enlarged horizontal section through one end of the gate, and associated guide means,

Figure 5 is a detailed horizontal section, showing a modified form of guide means upon the up side of the stream,

Figure 6 is a similar view, showing a modified form of guide means, upon the down side of the stream, and,

Figure 7 is a similar view, showing a still further modified form of guide means upon the down side of the stream.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 10 designates a vertically movable sluice gate, extending between piers 11. These piers have vertical recesses 12, formed therein, receiving the ends of the sluice gate 10. The sluice gate may be of any well known or preferred type, but for the purpose of illustration, I have shown the same as embodying plates 13 and 14, connected by horizontal I beams 15. The

plate 14 is upon the up side of the stream and the plate 13" upon the down side.

Arranged at each siderof the sluice gate 10, upon the down side thereof, are rollers 16, rotatable Within brackets 17, rigidly attached to end plates 19, which are in turn rigidly attached to the I beams 15 through the medium of angle irons 20 or, the like. The end plates 19 are'also attached to the up stream side plate 18 through the medium of angle irons 21, and a wear plate 22 is attached to the plate 14, adjacent to the angle irons 21.

Arranged within the recesses 12' is a trans verse vertical face plate 23, suitably anchored therein. Upon the down side of the gate 10, is arranged a channel'iron'24, located within the recesses 12, and includedin the guide means. A wear-plate 25 is secured to the channel iron 24, upon the inner-side thereof. An I beam 26 is arranged upon the outer side of the channel iron 24, and is rigidly attached thereto by welding orthe like.- The numeral 27 designates an angle iron which is arranged between the channel iron 24 and the I beam 26, and is rigidly attached theretoby means of welding. The assembled channel iron 24, I beam 26, and angle iron 27 -provide a verti-' cal tube or passage 28, which'is adapted for the reception of heating means,such assteam, which may be supplied thereto by any-suit able means. The uppe-rend of this passage or tube may be opened or closed, as desired. Instead of employing steam as a heating medium, I may arrange. an electrical heating unit Within the tube or passage 28. Particular attention is called to the fact that the I beam 26 and angle iron '27 which are assembled with the channel iron 24, which channel iron constitutes the guide means for the rollers 16, serve to strengthen and reinforce this channel iron. The rollers .16 travel upon the wear plate 25. v I v Arranged upon the upstream side of the gate 10, at each end of the gate, are guide 9 means embodying a vertical channel iron 29, rigidly attached to the plate 23, by an angle iron 30, or the like. The channel iron 29 coacts with the wear plate 22, to limit any possible movement of the gate in an upstream 7 32 isrigidly attached to the channel iron 29 by Welding jorthe like, "to provi'de a tube or;pas

sage 34; *This tube or passage is adapted for receiving a heating, medium, such a's ste'a'm," although an electricall heating unit maydbe arranged therein. The upper end of the tube 34 may be closed, if desired. Particular at ,tention is calledto the fact that the channel iron 32, when assembled with the guide means channel iron 29,;to produce theltube 34, serves to lstrengthen and reinforce the channel i 0l 2 l s Attachedto each end of the ,gate 10 are rollers 35, arranged to engage a track. orguide element 36. This guide element 36 is in the rm-m of a channel iron,,is verticallygarranged,

and rigidly attached to the plateg2-b,v The numeral 127 designates a co-acting ichannel iron, assembledwith' -tjhe channeliron 26 to. provideia tu-beor passage 38, these channel 'inons' beingwelded together. The channel iron-37 serves to reinforce and stifien the" channel iron 36. v

:Itlis thusseen th i-t the construction such that a heating medium may be zanolied ad- 'jacent tothe tracks or guide means, and the sealing means, to prevent the formation of icelin proximity thereto or to melt the ice thus,,f0rmed, .THeating means may be applied to these bartsthroughouttheir entire length.

The guide means embodying, the channel irons 29an1d 32,;Figure 4,isshownas mo dified inFigure 5. This guide means is shown in I Figure 5 as embodying avertical angle iron 3 9, the vopen side of wh ichis covered by, a

cnrvediron 40, these parts being welded to-' geth'er providing .a tube or passagel. I

The track or? guide means, uponthe down.

stream side, of the gate,Figure 4, which includes the channel iron, is modified in Figure '6. Thismo'dified track or guide means embodies'the vertical channel iron 42, attached to the p1ate'23, and an I beam 43, welded to v the channel iron 24., A Qhannel ir on '44 is weldedto the I beam 4:3 and to the plate 23,.

theseparts forming, when assembled, a tube medlum. s V

In F ignre 7, ,thearrangementrshown; in Figure 6 is duplicated, whereby the: tube or passage is provided. A second tubeor passage 46 is provided by employing an'angle. iron .47 which is welded or rigidly attached .to the channeliron 42, and I beamr 473..The' passages 49 5 and 46 are adapted for receiving steam or other heating means;

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3, which lead into the lower ends ofthe'tubes or passages, for conducting therefrom any condensation of which may collect therein.

These passages discharge upon the down stream sidejof the gate '10. I r It is to be understood that the forms of my invention, herewith shown and described, are

to be taken as PIIQfGIl BQl examples of the 7 same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted. to withoutdepa-rting from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of the subs- Having thusdescribed my invention,

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'Gulde means-for the end of aslulceigate,

comprising a channeliron, rollers canriedby V thegate and co-acting with the channe l iron, an I beam rigidly securedto the outer side of the channel iron, an iron rigidly secured to one side of the I beam and rigidly con-- nected with the channel iron, thesie vpartsj being assembled to produce a tube for tireceiving a-heatingmedium, and an angle iron arranged upon the opposite side of the Ibeam and rigidly connected with the -I beamand a heating medium;

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

FRED NEWELL- or passage 45, for the reception of a heating It is preferred that a drain befprovidedfor the lower end of each tube'or passage, and this'isindicated by, drain passagefilts Figure ichannel iron to provide a tube forflreceiving

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