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WATER ELEVATOR.

No. 514,616. Patented Feb. 13, 1894.

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GEORGE XVILLIAM CAMPBELL, OF EL PASO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO F. J. MOMURRAY, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,616, dated February 13, 1894.

Application filed August 16, 1893. Serial No.483,294. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE WILLIAM CAMP- BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at El Paso, in the county of El Paso and State of Texas,have invented a new and useful W'atear-Elevator, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to water elevators; and it has for its object to provide an improved water elevator of that character intended to elevate large quantities of water from an ordinary well for large ranch use and irrigating purposes.

To this end the main and primary object of the present invention is to construct awater elevator which can be easily operated by the direct pull of a single animal, which passes and repasses the well during the operation of raising and lowering the well bucket, and by this means contemplates dispensing with the necessity of winding drums or windlasses and horse powers, which are usually employed in connection with water elevators of the character noted.

With these and other objects in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawingsz-Figure l is a perspective viewof a water elevator constructed in accordance with this invention, showing the well in section, and a draft animal hitched to the hoisting or elevator rope. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional view of the water elevator. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line m-os of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective of the bucket slide frame. Fig. 5is a similar view of the bucket.

Referring to the accompanyiny drawings, A represents a well of the ordinary construction dug out many desired depth and accommodatin g therein the vertical and parallel guide bars or rods B. The vertical guide bars B, are suitably secured at their lower ends in the bottom of the well, and extending above the top of the well and the well platform C, are connected at their upper extremities by the cross beam D, and such. upper projecting ends of the opposite guide bars are securely and firmly braced to the upper well platform 0, by means of the brace frame E, secured to the guide bars near their upper ends and arising from the well platform 0. The well platform 0, is located as usual at the top of the well, and is provided with a squared or rectangu ar opera ing F, therein, of a width equaling the space between the two vertical guide bars B, and 6c the opening in the well platform is designed to accommodate the vertically moving slide frame G, which passes through said opening in its ascent and descent. The vertically moving slide frame G, is designed to work between 6 5 the parallel guide bars B, and is of an approximately U -shape. The approximately U-shaped slide frame G, is provided with the opposite Vertical side portions H, which slide at one side or the inner edges of the vertical 7o guide bars B, and the said vertical side por-' tions H, are provided at their upper and lower extremities with the parallel off-standing guide ears or lugs I, which embrace the op' posite side edges of the vertical guide bars 7 thereof one end of the hoisting or elevating rope K. The slide frame G, which moves up and down between the vertical guide bars B, is further provided with the upper transverse stop rod L, which connects the upper ends of r the side portions H, below the loop J, and also go with the lower stationary pivot rod M, which connects the lower extremities vof said side portions. The said stationary pivot rod M, forms a supporting pivot for the elongated well bucket N. The well bucket N, is of an 9 5 approximately rectangular shape and of a depth sufiicient to carry a considerable quantity of water, and the well bucket N, carries the stationary transverse bearing sleeve 0.

The bearing sleeve 0, passes transversely through the bucket N, at one side of and below the center of such bucket, and loosely fits The said slide frame B, 8ov

over the stationary pivot rod M, so that the bucket will be free to turn or tilt on said pivot rod, in order to discharge its contents at the top of the well, and by reason of the disposition of the bearing sleeve at one side of and below the center of the bucket, such bucket is normally overweighted or overbalanced at one side of its pivotal support, so as to normally hold it in an upright position between the opposite side portions H, of the slide frame, and is held in such normal vertical position by the stop shoulders P, formed in the top edges thereof and adapted to engage at one side of the upper transverse stop rod L.

p The well bucket N, is provided in the bottom thereof with an upwardly opening valve Q, which, when the bucket is lowered into the well, opens upwardly within the bucket so that the latter can readily fill with water, but which closes immediately upon the ascent of such bucket. After the bucket has been filled with water, the same is hoisted in a manner to-be presently described up to the top of the well and through the opening in the well platform 0, until the side trip arm R, engages with one edge of the well platform or a similar suitably arranged strike projection. The said trip arm R, is pivoted at one end on one extremity of the bearing sleeve 0, and has the free end thereof normally project beyond one end or side of such bucket, and said trip arm is held inits proper position by means of the keeper loop S, attached to one side of the bucket so that the trip arm will freely adjust itself to its proper position after the bucket has tilted back to its normal position.

' The said trip arm normally rests on the stop pin T, projecting from one side of the bucket near one edge thereof, so that as the trip arm engages one edge of the well platform it presses on said stop pin, and thereby causes the bucket to turn or tilt on its pivot and discharge its contents out of the top thereof and at one side of the well into any suitable receptacle or trough adapted for its reception. Now it will be apparent that as the bucket is hoisted to the top of the well, the trip'arm R, will engage under one edge of the well platform and cause the bucket to tilt or drop to one side to discharge its contents, and the side tilt of the bucket is limited or checked by the transverse stop bar U, secured to one side of the bucket near its bottom, and having the opposite projecting ends thereof adapted to come against one side of the guide bars, thereby holding thebucket checkedin its tilted position until the contents thereof are discharged. The hoisting or elevating rope K, which is attached at one end to the upper end of the slide frame G, passes over the upper guide pulley V, located above the top of the well. The guide pulley V, is journaled in a pivoted sheave W, having at one side and the top and bottom thereof the projecting pivot pins X, journaled or bearing in the top of the frame F, and the cross beam D, thereby providing a support for the pulley whereby the same may be turned in any direction during the operation of raising andlowering the well bucket. The upper end of the hoisting or elevator rope which passes over said pivoted guide pulley, is especially adapted to be attached to the pommel or horn of a horse saddle Y, fastened to the back of any suitable draft animal. Now by reason of the specific pivotal support of the upper guide pulley, it will be apparent that during the operation of the elevator, the horse can pull out to one side of the Well until a bucket of water is drawn and discharged, and can then turn and start in an opposite direction and continue in said opposite side direction until the bucket has been lowered into the well of its own weight, filled, and again raised and discharged, thereby avoiding the turning of the animal frequently.

Many advantages will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art from the operation just described.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. In a water elevator, the combination of upright parallel guide bars adapted to be arranged in a well and extending above the same, a vertically moving slide frame arranged to work between and against said guide bars, said slide frame being provided with a transverse stop rod near its upper end,a normally overbalanced well bucket pivotally mounted in said sliding frame and provided at its upper edges with stop shoulders adapted to engage at one side of said stop rod, an automatic trip for said bucket, and a transverse stop bar secured to one side of the bucket and adapted to have its ends engage against the upright guide bars when the bucket is tilted, substantially as set forth.

2. In a water elevator, the combination with a well and a strike projection at the top thereof; of a vertically moving frame working in the well, means for raising and loweringsaid frame, and a tilting well bucket normally upright and pivoted to said vertically moving frame, said well bucket being provided with a self adjusting strike arm adapted to come in engagement with said strike projection at the top of the well, substantially as set forth.

3. In a water elevator, parallel upright guide bars adapted to be arranged in a well and extending above the same, a rope pulley pivotally supported at the upper ends of said guide bars, a U-shaped slide frame arranged to move between the vertical parallel guide bars and having at both sides thereof offstanding guide ears or lugs embracing the opposite side edges of the guide bars, a single draft hoist rope attached at one end to the top of said slide frame and passing over the upper pivoted rope pulley, a well bucket piv- IIC oted at one side of and below its center to said slide frame and normally overloalanced, and a self-adjusting trip arm pivoted to one side of the bucket and adapted to have its free end engage a strike projection at the top of the well, substantially as set forth.

a. In awater elevator, the combination with a strike projection arranged at the top of a well; of vertical parallel guide bars arranged in the well and projecting above the same, an

approximately Ushaped slide frame moving between the guide bars, means for raising and lowering the slide frame, a valved normally upright well bucket pivoted within the slide frame and having at one side thereof a keeper loop and a stop pin, the latter being located near one edge of the bucket, and a self adjusting trip arm pivoted at one end on the pivot of the wellbucket, said trip arm being adapted to be disposed above the stop and having its projecting end come in engagement with the strike projection located at the top of the well, substantially as set forth.

5. In a water elevator, opposite upright guide bars adapted to be arranged in a well and project above the top of the same, aslide frame moving between said guide bars and having an upper transverse stop rod and a lower stationary pivot rod, a tilting well bucket arranged within the slide frame and having a stationary transverse bearing sleeve located at one side of and below its center and loosely fitting over the stationary pivot rod of the slide frame, said well bucket being also provided at its top edges with stop shoulders adapted to normally engage at one side of the stop rod of said slide frame, and in its bucket, a pulley sheave having opposite projecting pivot pins journaled at the top of the braced guide bars, the pulley journaled in said sheave, and the draft hoist rope passing over said pulley and attached at one end to said slide frame and at its other end to a draft animal, substantially as set forth.

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

GEORGE WILLIAM CAMPBELL.

\Vitnesses:

J AY Goon, E. S. KAULLOUD.

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