US48724A - Improvement in water-wheels - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY ROSE, OF CORTLANDVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WH EELS.

Speciii cation forming part of Letters Patent No. l45,7211, (lated July 11, 1865.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY RosE, of the town of Cortlandville, in the county of Cortland and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement-in Water-Wheels 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, in which said drawing a perspective view of said improvement is given.

The wheel is represented in a vertical position, and to revolve in the direction indicated by the lower arrow. 1t is used with ascroll fitted in the ordinary manner.

a a is the drum or hub ofthe wheelsay sixteen inches in length. Upon this hub I place angular floats or buckets b b, presenting the apex ofthe angle at c c, the angles heilig on,

or nearly on, the central line passing around the hub. These I call the central iioats or buckets.7 At d d these central buckets are joined by orto the outside buckets, (represented by dotted lines e 6,) in the usual shape of bucketsin reacting wheels, and discharging through the oritices at f f. Around the outside of' these end or reversed buckets is placed a rim, g g, of the same depth with these end buckets. The water is let onto the wheel at the angles in the central floats and in the direction indicated by the upper arrow.

The main advantages I claim for this wheel are:

First. That it may be used in a vertical or horizontal position, and it will revolve in one direct-ion or the other by reversing or changing ends.

Second. That there is increased power attained, in that thereis lirst a direct action of the water upon the central buckets, and, second, both .a direct and reacting force or action upon the end or reversed buckets. In other words, the power obtained from the action of the water upon the central floats is in addition to the power obtained from the usual reacting wheel, which the end buckets in this wheel are intended to represent.

Third. This wheel, by means of the angular central tloats, itself divides the column of Water as it comes onto the wheel. Heretofore this division has been effected by a stationary dividing-block in the scroll. vSuch a block retards'the passage of water to the Wheel and detracts more or less from its velocity and power. Here theangular bucket acts as a dividing-block, and one that constantly moves with the wheel. Fourth. Byenlargingtheissuesupon theone end of the wheel, and a corresponding movement of the angles of the central oats farther from such enlarged orifices, the column of water may be divided unequally, and the wheel thus be balanced, the pressure of the Water being thus used to keep the Wheel from lifting or bearin g down or pressing'to one side or'the other when used horizontally.

What 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The central angular oats or buckets, b b, in connection and combination with the reversed end buckets, e c, as above set forth, and working in the manner herein described.

l TIMOTHY ROSE. -fitnessesz i GHAs. FOSTER, T. M. DORWIN.

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