US495816A - Water-wheel and elevator - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. B. LOGKWOOD.

WATER WHEEL AND ELEVATOR.

No. 495,816. Patented Apr. 18. 1893.

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JOHN B. LOOKWOOD, OF HELMVILLE, MONTANA.

WATER-WHEEL AND ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,816, dated April 18, 1893.

Application filed January 6, 1893. Serial No. 457,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. LooKWooD, of Helmville, in the county of Deer Lodge and State of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Water-\Vheel and Elevator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in water wheels and elevators; and the object of my invention is to produce a very cheap and simple apparatus which may be supported above any stream where there is a perceptible current, and with its lower part slightly submerged so that it will be revolved by the current and will elevate and discharge sufficient water for irrigating purposes, or to supply power to run machinery, the amount of water raised depending, of course, on the size of the wheel.

A further object of my invention is to construct and arrange the wheel in such a way that it may be easily adjusted to suit the different heights of water so that it may be run most effectively. By the use of the wheel, which will be hereinafter described, irrigating water may be raised and the expense of building reservoirs and employing pumps be done away with, and as it also raises water for power, it dispenses with the necessity of building dams, &c.

To these ends my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part'of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a central vertical cross section of the apparatus embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 is a broken sectional plan 011 the line 22 in Fig. 1.

The apparatus is provided with a suitable framework 10 which is adapted to be supported on abutments 11 and 12 so as to extend horizontally above the surface of a stream, and the frame has at its ends vertical and parallel side pieces or posts 13 between which are held the bearing boxes 14, which have side flanges 15 overlapping the posts 13 to prevent the displacement of the boxes and which serve as bearings for the journals of the main shaft 16 which extends longitudinally across the frame and horizontally above the water, and the boxes 14 are supported by chains 17 connecting with windlasses 18 journaled between the posts 13 near the top, each windlass having suitable operating levers 19 and a ratchet wheel 20 and pawl 21 to prevent its turning in the wrong direction.

The shaft 16 carries a cylinder 22 which has flanges 23 forming the ends of the wheel proper and formingthe sides of the buckets to be hereinafter described. Arranged circumferentially on the cylinder are tangentially extending paddles 24 which are provided on one side with parallel guide strips 25 which align with the inner edges of the flanges 23, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, and which serve to guide the water as it is delivered from the paddles to the sluice. Beneath each paddle and abutting against the same are plates 26 having reduced front edges 27 which enable the water to pass easily over them into the buckets 28, which buckets are formed between the flanges 23 and beneath the paddles 24 and plates 26.

On one side of the wheel and about opposite the center thereof, is a sluice 29, which may be given any desired inclination and which is supported on a cross timber 30, this sluice being adapted to carry away the water raised by the wheel and deliver it at any desired point. WVhen the wheel is to be used the boxes 14 are adjusted by means of the windlasses 18 so that the lower portion of the wheel will dip into the water, and the current striking the paddles 24 causes the wheel to be revolved, the wheel turning in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1, and as the wheel revolves the buckets 28 are successively filled and raised on the back side of the wheel, and as they pass over the center at the top, the water is discharged from them and passes from each bucket over the paddle 24 beneath and out between the guide strips 25 into the sluice 29. In this way a constant stream of water. is made to run into the sluice.

It will be noticed that the paddles extend outward beyond the rim of the wheel, thus giving the wheel great power, and this may be still further increased by widening or lengthening the paddles.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An improved water wheel and elevator, having tangential paddles around its periphery, buckets arranged between the paddles, guide strips produced upon the paddles and adapted to align with the sides of the buckets, and a sluice to receive the water discharged from the buckets, substantially as described.

2. A Water wheel and elevator, comprising a supporting frame, a vertically adjustable shaft journaled in the frame, windlasses journaled in the frame and operatively connected with the shaft to adjust the same, and a wheel carried by the shaft, the wheel having peripheral tangential paddles, buckets arranged between the paddles, and guide strips secured to the paddles and aligning with the sides of the buckets, substantially as described.

3. An improved water wheel and elevator, comprising a cylinder secured to a shaft and provided with end flanges, tangential paddles projecting from the cylinder to a point beyond the periphery of the flanges, cross plates extending from flange to flange and abutting with a portion of the paddles so as to form buckets between the paddles, and guide strips secured to the paddles and aligning with the sides of the buckets, substantially as described.

JOHN B. LOOKWOOD. Witnesses: 1

HENRY G. SANDFORD, DANIEL W. SPRANKEL.

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