US178737A - Improvement in water-motors - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE. A

' ISAAC ORANDELL AND SAMUEL -P. BROWER, OF GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK,

ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF THEIR RIGHT TO FREDERICK J. P. OHITTY AND ISAAC J. DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-MOTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,737, dated June 13, 1876; application filed May 17, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC ORANDELL and SAMUEL P. BROWER, of Gle'ns Falls, in the county of VVarrenand State of New York, have invented certain new-and useful Improvements in Water-Motors; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the let ters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings shows a plan of my invention, the cap of the casing being removed. Fig. 2 is a section showing the water-supply tubes and the water-wheel in elevation. Fig. 3 is a section of the terminus of the supply-tubes, and of the buckets.

A represents a casing or box adapted to be screwed or otherwise secured. to a table or bench, from which a waste-pipe or drain of suitable character leads to carry off the water. Upon the sides of this box or in the upper edges thereof, suitable bearings B B a are provided, in which the shaft of the waterwheel 0 is mounted. Upon the extremity of this shaft-is secured a driving-pulley, D, for..

transmitting the power of the wheel to any desired point or mechanism. Leading through the side of the casing are a series of pipes, E, arranged in the same vertical plane, having their delivery regulated at about the angle shown, so that the water passing therethrough will strike the buckets nearly at right angles with the plane of the bottom thereof. It is obvious that these supply-pipes may be made of different diameters. There are also provided at the extremity'of these pipes bushings e e, for the purpose of regulating, when desired, the amount of water admitted to the wheel.

Another means of regulating the quantity of water to be used is through the medium of a valve, which will form the subject of a separate application, by which the water from a single large supply-pipe may be shut off from any one or more of the pipes 'E. By the means referred to the most complete control of the amount of water to be used is obtained, thus adapting a wheel of a given size to perform work of greatly varying degrees of power without any waste of water whatever. This motor is intended for light work where there is a limited supply of water, and where it is important to economize the use of the same. F represents the buckets of the waterwheel made substantially in the form shown that is to say, the bottom of the buckets are slightly curved in longitudinal section, and

having sides so as to partially confine the water. These buckets are secured to the side of the rim of the wheel, and receive the force of the Water from the pipe or pipes E, as before stated, at about right angles with the plane of their bottom. The application of the water is upon the under side of the Wheel, making it what would be technically termed an undershot-wheel.

By constructing the wheel and bucketsin the form shown, and applying the poweras setforth, considerable power may be obtained from a wheel of small dimensions, and with a very small quantity of water, having no great degree of head-that is to say, the greatest available amount of power is obtained from a given small quantity of water, and this too, with a perfect clearance ,of the water from the wheel at a point where it is readily conducted away by the waste-pipe. A cover, however, is provided to the casing, which confines all of the Water or spray from a rapid motion of the wheel, so that this motor may be used in any part of a dwelling 'for propelling sewing or other machinery without difficulty.

It will be observed that a shoe, 2', is connected with the extremity of the pipes,'and

projects laterally withinthe rim of the wheel which is constructed for this purpose and thereby retains the pipes in their relative positions. It will also be observed that the ends of the pipes are bent inward to deliver the water properly to the buckets while constituting no obstruction to the revolution of the wheel.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The wheel 0 consisting of a disk, from one side of which project theslightly-ourved buckets F, having sides so as tojpartially confine the water, the construction and operation being as described.

2. The combination, with the pipes E, of bushings, as'and for the purposes specified.

3. The combinatiomwith a series of supplypipes and wheel, of theconstruction shown, of the supporting and guiding show, as set fort-h.

4. The combination, with the wheel shown,

of bent pipes E, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination, with the wheel shown,

of the series of pipes E, and a single regulat ing valve or cook for causing thewater to flow through either one or more of the series of h ,pipes,tas set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, weaffix oursignatures in the presence of two witnesses.

. ISAAC ORANDELL.

SAMUEL P. BROWER. Witnesses:

WM. A. WAIT, A. W. MORGAN.

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