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Publication number: US297468A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-04-22
Anticipated expiration: 1901-04-22

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(No Model.)

H. R. STEVENS.

TANK FOR WINDMILLS; No. 297,468. Patented Apr. 22, 1884.

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TANK FOR WINDIVHLLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,4:68, dated April 22, 1884.

Application filed March 10, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY R. STEVENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and 'useful Tank for Windmills, of which the fol.-

lowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Heretofore the watertanks used in connection with windmills for holding large quantithe bottom and the body and renders the tank useless.

My object is to obviate these defects; and to this end the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is aview in perspective of the tank. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View. Fig. 3 is a view of the hoop, and Fig. 4 is a view of the strengthening-wire.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the bottom of the tank,

which is of redwood, or other Suitable wood;

and b is the body of the tank, which is made of two or more widths of sheet iron, galvanized, to give it the requisite height.

edges of the widths united by rivets, as shown,

The end are then lapped and riveted together, forming 4o the vertical seam z. The wooden bottomisdriven down into the body to within about two and a quarter inches from its lower edge, and the hoop c is then driven over the body until it occupies the space directly opposite the edge of the bottom. The tank is then turned bottom uppermost, and the wire ring dis laid on the bottom within the projecting edge e, and the latter is then hammered in over the wire ring d, and its edge driven into the under face of the wooden bottom to clinch it and hold the wire and bottom securely in place.

This water-tank is simple, cheap, and durable, as it will not be injuriously affected by exposure to the weather.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-' The hereindescribed water-tank, consisting of the galvanized sheet-metal body, having the wooden'bottom fitting tightly therein within a short distance of the lower edge of the body. in combination with the encirclinghoop directly opposite the edge of the wooden bottom, the wire ring below the under face of the bottom, and the lower projecting edge of the body bent inwardly over the wire ring and clinched into the under face of the bottom, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in p resence of witnesses.

HARRY R. STEVENS.

W'itnesses:

THEO. MUNGEN, G. B. HARRIS, E. G. SIGGERS.