US52224A - Improvement in water-wheels - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

FREDERICK SWATZEL, OF GERMANTOWN, OHIO.

IMPROVEM ENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Speccation forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,224, dated January 23, 1866.

buckets, showing` the top part of the spout.

Fig. II is a side elevation ofone ofthe buckets with its spout detached from the wheel. Fig. III is a reversed view ofthe auxiliary buckets and the ltop ange detached from the flange d, shown in dotted line at the top of the wheel.

To enable others to construct and use my improved wheel, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings.

' My wheel is designed to revolve horizontally and to discharge the water at the bottom of each bucket. The buckets a a a are formed at an angle ot' about forty-five degrees, with an opening at the bottom, as represented at I), for the discharge of the water. Each bucket is extended by a iiange at the periphery of the wheel, (denoted by the letter (6.) This extension or flange of the bucket stands at an obtuse angle with the two sides ofthe bucket, and is upon nearly the radius-line of the wheel and projects beyond the two angular lian ges, d d, (one not seen in the drawings,) at the top and bottom of the buckets a, and by which anges the buckets are held to constitute the body of the wheel. Upon the top ange, d, there are auxiliary buckets e c projecting outwardly two inches beyond lange d, and these auxiliary buckets are capped and held in position by the angular iiange f, as represented in Fig. III.

The dischargewent l) is provided with a curved spout or mouth, g, with its open side backward in relation to the motion of the wheel, as seen in the drawings. This spout or mouth is connected with the inner side of the face a of the bucket and extends downward in a curved form below the bottom flange of the wheel about two and one-half inches. The discharge-opening b communicates with the spout or mouth g. The distance from the discharge-opening b to the back of the spout gis about two inches and its width is about four inches, and corresponds in width with the width of the face ot' the bucket, exclusive of the flange a". Its length, as above stated, is about two and one-half inches. The back of the spout g is curved, or it may be inclined at an angle ot' forty-tive degrees, more or less. This form serves as an inclined plane, upon which the gravity ot' the water will act in its passage down from the buckets until it is discharged, and thereby assists, while being discharged, in propelling the wheel.

When in operation the wheel will revolve l in the direction ofthe arrow, the water being conducted tangentially upon the face ot' the buckets by means of a continuous scrollspout. This spout may extend entirely round the wheel. The spout will be fitted to the anges d Z at the periphery ofthe wheel, and the auxiliary buckets e e are designed to receive the action of all the waste water which may escape between the scroll-spout and flange d. A similar arrangement of buckets maybe arranged at the bottom ofthe wheel to receive the action ofthe escaping current of water at that point.

This improved wheel is designed to be used where the amount of water is comparatively small. It is the intention to conduct the water from near the bottom otthe forebay upon the entire series of buckets through the scrollspout, and it is believed that this is the most economical way of using the water.

I have found by experiment with my invention that it has great advantages over such of lthe submerged wheels as I have used.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The buckets a aa, in combination with the inclined or curved spout g, operating in the manner substantially as described.

2. The auxiliary-buckets ee, in combination with the wheel, as described.

FRED. SWATZEL. Witnesses:

H. P. K. PEcK, SHEM. THOMAS.

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