US246609A

US246609A - goldsmith

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Publication number: US246609A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1898-09-06

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PfJ. GOLDSMITH.

WINDMILL.

N0. 246,609. Patented Sept. 6,1881.

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UrTEn STATES PATENT FRANCIS J. GOLDSMITH, OF PAINESVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HORACE W. TIBBALS, OF SAME PLACE.

WINADMILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,609, dated September 6, 1881.

Application nien July 24, 1ero. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS J. GoLDsMITH, of Painesville, in the county of Lake and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful 5 Improvements in Windmills; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had r o to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a well with its tubing projecting above ground, the apparatus shown being constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the windmill apparatus suggested in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the anti-friction roller of the larger vane, showing its iiattened or locking face.

A is the tubing of any well, constructed either from metal or wood-metal, however, preferred. This tubing extends above the earth, as shown. Suitable guys, A', should be employed to maintain the tubular standard A steadily in its upright position, and these guys I prefer should be provided with tightening apparatus-such as a right-and-left-handescrew arrangement or its equivalentso that from time to time they maybe made shorter or longer, as is necessary. Likewise one of the guys may be in the forni of a ladder for mounting to the windmill apparatus; or, instead of this construction, steps may be fixed of any sort or in any manner to the standard portion ot' the tubing A, for the same purpose as before mentioned in speaking of the ladder.

B is the wind-wheel, the revolution of which operates a cam or crank for imparting a reciprocating movement to theplunger of the 4o pump. It will be observed that I have placed my wheel B directly in line with the axis of the tube A, instead ot' balancing it to one side thereof. The wheel B is journaled in the bifurcated arm C, which is so attached to the top or upper portion of the tubing A as to permit of such a revolution that the wheel B may face in any direction that the wind may be coming from, and, as usual in structures of this character, I provide vanes D E, whereby the force ofthe wind will always insure a proper 5o facing of the wheel. The normal position of the larger vane D is in a line at right angles to the plane of the wheel B, but when the wheel is at rest or is desired to be turned out of gear, then the vane D is moved until it is brought into line parallel with the plane ofthe wheel B, so as to present the edge of said wheel to the wind, thus stopping it.

The smaller vane E is designed to guard against the damaging eect of too strong a 6o breeze, and may bc termed the governingvane.77 This vane is rigidly fixed so as to be located on a line parallel to the plane of the wheel B, so that the action ofthe wind against it has a tendency to throw the wheel B out ot' 65 gear. This vane E, I preferably make adjustable' by any suitable means to suit either different-sized wheels or so as to increase or diminish the speed of the wheel B, according to the strength ot' the wind-current. Thus, if 7o lengthened, the wheel would go slower, and vice versa.

The tendency of the vane D in its function is to present the wheel more or less quartering to the wind, and if a sudden breeze should spring up this vane would operate to turn the wheel and its support until it was completely out of gear, and in this position the two vanes D and E would be together, or nearly so. In order, however, that the vane D should not 8o act too sensitively, I have provided an adjustable inclined tramway, F, the degree of whose pitch correspondingly regulates and determines the sensitiveness of the vane D. This tramway I construct circular or semicircular. Upon this tramway nieves the roller D', revolvin g upon the arm ofthe vane D and rolling upon the tramway F. One portion of the roller D is made more or less flattened, and it is designed that when the vane D is in the 9o position to face the wheel B to the wind this 'iiattened portion d shall rest upon the trainway. Thus it will be apparent that an extra force must be exerted upon the vane D before the roller Dl will be started, and this serves as an additional check to any oversensitive action of the vane D, inasmuch as it is undesirable that every insignificant or immaterial difference in the strength of the breeze should- In testimony whereof I have signed my name be constantly disturbing` the position of the to this specification inthe presence of two sub- 1o wheel B. seribing witnesses.

What I claim is- 1 5 The combination, with the vane I) and in- FRANQIS J' GOLDSMITH elined tramway F, of the roiler D', having a Witnesses: flattened 1oekingface, 61,'substar1tialiy as set JNO. GROWELL, Jr., forth. WILLARD FRACKER.