US319303A

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Publication number: US319303A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 1902-06-02

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(men J. NOUGUES, PILS AINE.

GANAL AND THE MODE OF NAVIGATING THE SAME.

' No. 319,303. Q Patented June 2, 188 5.

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Nrrnn JEAN NOUGUES, FILS AlNE, or OGEN, FRANCE.

CANAL AND THE MODE OF NAVIGATING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 319,303, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed March 11, 1885. (N0 model.) Patented in France August 5, 1884, No. 165,650.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LJEAN NoUGUEsFils ain, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Ogen, in France, have invented new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Canals and to the Navigation thereof, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to do away with the necessity for haulage and for towing in canals and canalized rivers by transforming their waters into reversible or returning currents into continuous ones, enabling boats to travel upstream or downstream without recourse to any other motor but the natural feed of the canal. The application of this system to all canals and canalized rivers consists, first, in constructing in each reach a dike or dam parallel to the axis of the canal, the dike then forming two water-ways, one for going upstream, the other for going downstream. This dam stops short at somedistance from the sluice.

Figure 1 is a plan of acanal embodying this invention; Fig. 2, longitudinal section thereof Fig. 3, section on a b through one sluice; Fig. 4, a section through c (1 across the canal. Fig. 5 is a section on line a f, showing one wall, side, or wing of a lock and the feed or supply channel therein.

The like letters show like parts in all the figures.

A is a feed pipe or channel and causes motion of the water in the canal. B are the boats or the like; 0, the upper reach of the canal; G, the lower reach. D is the dike or dam. E, the tubular outfall or flume for the upper sluice; E, a like connection for the lower sluice. F is the lock. G is the outfall into the stream corresponding in capacity with the supply; It, the stream or river. For the motive power usually employed for setting boats into motion currents are in this system substituted which are produced by the difference of level in the various reaches and by means of the tubular connections, channels, or flumes A,which are proportioned in accordance with the supply, and passing through one wing or side of the lock connect two reaches with one another. The channels A receive water from the reach O by the mouth E, and allow it to escape by the outfall E, this causing a fall or current which, being repeated at each reach, causes movement of the waters in the direction shown by the arrows; consequently the boats or vessels in the canal move with the water in the direction of these artificial currents, which may be repeated or extended to any extent, and allows vessels to be readily navigated in either direction and to be brought back to the starting-point. The outfall G, which delivers into the stream R, must be of a capacity proportioned to that of the outfalls E, so that the same quantity of water flows into the stream as is supplied by the channels A. Speed in this system is in direct proportion to the feedthat is to say, the speed increases with the diameter of the channels A.

I claim- A system of navigation for use in canals or canalized rivers, which consists of the various reaches thereof provided with the central 1ongitudinal dikes, D, and the locks provided with feed tubes or channels A, having outfalls E E at their ends, which arrangement has for its object the production of currents which carry the vessels or boats and allow them to be navigated upstream or down, according to the side of the dike at which they are placed.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JEAN noneuns, FILS AlNE.

Witnesses:

J US'I'IN ANDRE LACOMBE, E. Bonrronnn.