US2261944A

US2261944A - Water motor

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Publication number: US2261944A
Application number: US342370A
Authority: US
Inventors: William J Winslow
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1940-06-25
Filing date: 1940-06-25
Publication date: 1941-11-11
Anticipated expiration: 1958-11-11

Description

Nov. 11, 1941.

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A iiorney Patented Nov. 11, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WATER MOTOR William J. Winslow, Greenleaf, Idaho Application June 25, 1940, Serial No. 342,370

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a water motor or wheel, the general object of the invention being to provide a wheel or motor actuated by flowing water and one which is of sturdy construction and can be manufactured to sell at low cost and which will produce maximum power from a minimum amount of water flowing past the same.

Another object of the invention is to so arrange and construct the parts that a number of the devices can be placed adjacent to each other so as to be operated by the same stream of water without one device interfering with the action of the water on other devices.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the invention.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view of one of the wings or vanes of the wheel.

Figure 4 is a view showing the trunnion means for supporting one end of the hub of the wheel from a part of the casing.

Figure 5 is an edge view of one of the wings or vanes.

Figure 6 is a View somewhat diagrammatic showing how the movement of the wheel can be transmitted to a take-01f shaft.

Figure 7 is a view showing a number of the devices placed in a row with the take 01f means therefor.

Figure 8 is a fragmentary plan view showing how a blade is connected with the hub.

Figure 9 is a sectional view through the hub and looking toward the rear face of a blade.

As shown in these views the wheel includes a hub A and a plurality of vanes or wings B. The hub is formed of two caps I and angle members 2 having their ends connected with the caps so as to provide a hub of square shape in cross section.

Each wing is formed of a plate-like member 3 having an arcuate main edge, a straight forward edge I, an inner stepped edge and a, diagonal rear edge 1. The stepped edge is composed of part extending rearwardly at right angles to the forward edge I and the part b extending at right angles from the short part a to the edge 1. Member 4 and a short angle-shaped member 5 are connected with the rear face of the member 3 and these

members

4 and 5 have portions flush with the stepped edges and provide with certain of said edges a recess 6 for receiving portions of the hub A. The short member 5 has its inner end connected with one side of the hub and the long member 4 has its inner end connected to the opposite side of the hub and rearwardly of the point of connection of member 5 with the hub. Thus the vane or member 3 is held in a diagonal position on the hub with the sloping end edge 1 at the rear and the straight end edge 1 forward to be first engaged by the water entering the device. A brace member 8 of angle shape in cross section has one end connected to the rear face of each vane adjacent the end I and the other end portion is connected with the hub on that side of the hub which is opposite the side bridged by the end wall of recess 6.

As will be seen there are four vanes and the long members 4 of the vanes are connected to the four sides of the hub and each vane has its major part extending from one side of the hub and its minor part, or the part between the

members

4 and 5, extending from an adjacent side of the hub.

Trunnions ID are connected with the end pieces I of the hub and pass through the front and rear end walls of a casing C for rotatably supporting the wheel in the casing and said casing is formed with the openings II at its ends so that when the casing is placed in a stream of K water or the like the water will flow through these openings H and thus act on the vanes B to cause rotary movement of the wheel. Figure 1 shows arrows l2 indicating the direction of the flow of water through the device and the arrows 13 indicate the direction of rotation of the wheel.

One of the trunnions ll) may be provided with a sprocket I4 to receive a chain [6 which passes over another sprocket on a take-off shaft I1, see Figure 6, which may be provided with a pulley I8 or the like so that it can be belted or otherwise attached to a device to be driven.

Figure 7 shows a plurality of these devices at D arranged in a row with a take-01f shaft l8 connected at its ends by the chain and sprockets IS with the trunnions H] at the ends of the devices, each wheel being connected to the adjacent the short part a. and a longer part b, the short Wheel as shown at I0. Pulleys 20 may be arranged on the shaft l8 to drive different mechanisms by belts or the like.

It; is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall Within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the claimed as new is:

A water wheel of the class described comprising a hub of rectangular shape in cross section, a plurality of wings ofplate-like form, each wing having an artcuate outer edge, a diagonal rear end edge, a straight forward edge which extends inwardly from the front end of the arcuate edge and a stepped inner edge connecting the forward edge to the diagonal edge, the stepped inner edge including a first and short part extending rearwardly and substantially at right angles from the forward edge and a second part extending at invention, What is right angles from the rear end of the first and short part to the diagonal end edge, a pair of bars connected with the rear face of each wing with one bar extending along the forward edge with the inner end of said bar projecting beyond the first and short part of the stepped inner edge, a distance equal to the width of the hub, and said projecting portion being connected to one side of the hub, the other bar having a portion extending along the second part of the stepped edge and the other end of the bar being located adjacent the arcuate edge with an intermediate part of the last-mentioned bar connected to the opposite side of the hub and at a point rearward- 1y on the hub from the point where the first bar is connected with the hub and a brace bar connecting the rear end of the wing to the hub on a third side of the hub with the first and short portion of the stepped edge engaging the fourth side of the hub, the brace bar being connected with the hub rearwardly of the points of connection of the first two bars to said hub.

WILLIAM J. WINSLOW.