US554786A - Windmill - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ANCIL B. 1WIORSE, OF BARABOO, \VISCONSIN.

WINDMILL.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent N0. 554,786, dated Fbruaryl8, 1896.

App1ication fi1 =d J'u1y 10, 1895. Serial N0. 555,550. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom it mag c0ncern:

Be itknown tha1z1, ANOIL B. MORSE, a citizen of the United Soaces, residing ab Baraboo, in the county of Sauk and State of VVisoonsin, have invented a new and useful Tindmill, of which the follow1'ng is a specification.

The invention relates to improvemenvs in windmills.

.The objeot of the present invention is 110 improvo the oonstruction of windmills, more espeoially the gearingfor transmitting power from t-he windmill-shaft 130 a pump, 01 t0 a maohine or the like, and to enable Ehe windwhee1 to face he Wind squarely ab all times, aud 130 mount the gearing on ehe tower Wihoun interfering With the operation of the wind-wheel.

The inven'oion consists in the oonstruction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully desoribed, illustrated in the aeoompanying drawings, and pointed In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspeetive view of a portion of a winc'lmill construeted in aooordanoe W113h this invenuion. Fig. 2 is a vertical seotional view of the same, haken 1011 gitudinally of oho braoket for supporting the gearing. 'Fig. 3 is a similar view haken transversely of the gearing.

Like numerals of referenoe indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawmgs.

1 designates he upper portion of a Windmil1 tower provided W113h a tubu1ar bearing 2, reoeiving a turn-table 3, whioh has a horizontal arm 4:, provided with bearings for the reoeption of a horizontal wind-wheel shaft 5. The wind-wheel shaftextends ounward from the trn-oab1e and carries a wind-wheel 6, and its inner end is arranged over the turntab1o and has fixed so it a pu11ey 7.

A holt 8 is arranged on the pu1ley 7 and extends downward therefrom, anal one -side or lea-f of 1she be113 forms a loop 9 and passes around a pulleyl0, and extends upward from the turn-table, and is arranged on guide- pulley 10, 11, and 12 of a substantially rectangu1ar braoket 13. The holt also passes around a pulley 14 of a shaft 15, Whieh is mounted in suiable bearings of the tower ab a point be1ow the turn-table, and which also carries a orankwheel 17 for the attaohrnent of a pump-rod; but tho holt may be continued, and eonneoted With any othermeehanism o1 machine 130 be operated ab he base of the tower 0r a distanoe from it.

The braeket is composed of a lower horizonta1 arm, 18, extending outward from the p1aoform o1 other desired portion of the EOW1,

a ver1aioal standard. 19 extending upward fro1n the outer end of the arm 18, and an upper horizontal arm, 20, extending inward from the top of the standard and provided ab its inner end with a depending sooket 21. The depending socket 21 reoeives and swivels the top of a supporting-frame 22. The supporting-frame 22 is oomposed of converging sides, secured ab their lower ends rigidly 110 the turntable, and rotating with the same, and pro- Vided ab their upper ends W113]1 a vertioallydisposed tubular pivot fitting in oho SOC-ket 21.

The guide- pulleys 10 and 11 a1e looated ab he ends of the upper horizontal arm of the bracket, and the guide-pulley 12 is loeat-ed on the standard 19 at a poinu to cause the be1t 130 form an open loop of sufficient sizo to permia oho passage of the wind-wheel when the turn-tablo Totates. By his construction the gearing does 11011 interfere w1'th oho operation of the wind-wheel, whioh is adapted. to shift its position freely, so as to oatoh the Wind properly.

113 Will be seen that the gearing is simple and inexpensive in construction, that the pulleys with the' exception of those carried by the turn-table have rigid supports, and that the arrangement of the be1t 1's such that it does noo interfere With the rotation of the turn-table.

Ohanges in the forma, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted 130 without departing from the principle 01 saorifioing any of the advantages of this invention, such as the arrangemen of the pul- 1eys and the like.

What I c1aim is- 1. In a windmill, the oombination of a tower, a turn-table mounted thereon and provided wi'oh a vertically-disposed. supportingframe, a braoket rigidly mounted on the tower and extending outward therefrom and inward over the supporting-frame and having the 12L0L101 swi.vc1e l t0 it, said brackets funning an opening t0 p01mit Lhe assage 0f a wind-wheel, a wind-wheel shaft, a pulley fixed t0 ehe wind-wheel shaft, guide-pulleys mounted 011 the bmoket, and a be1 arranged 011 said pulleys and forming a 100p o0 permit the assage 0f a wind-wheel, substanbially as described.

2. In a windmill, the combination 0f a tower, a tnrntable mounted theteon, a supporting-frame extending upward f1om the turn-table and rigid with the saane, a substantially recmngnlar braeket rigid With the tower and swiveled 00 the supporting-frame, a windwhee1 shaft, apul1ey fixed 130 ehe wind-wheel shaft, a guidepulley 10 located adjacent '00 the said pu11ey, guide-pulleys mounted 011 the bracket, und a be1t arranged 011 the pulley 0f the wind-wheel shaft an l provided with L100p arranged 011 uhe pulley 10, said be1t being arranged 011 the guide-pulleys of 13119 bracketa and forming an open 100p to permit Lhe assage of a wind-whee], substantially as dcscribed.

b. In a windmill, the combination 0f a tower, a rectangular bmeket; rigid wi1zh the t0wer and having an upper horizontal arm located above the tower and provided with a depending socket, a turn-tablo mounted on the tower a11d provided with a supportingfmme disposed vertioally an(1 pivoted in 13110 socket, a wind-wheel shaft, a pu11ey fixe(1 t0 Ehe smne, gnide-pulleys arran ge(1 011 tho bracket, and abe1c m*mnged 011 sind pulleys and forming an open 100p 130 permit the passage 0f a wind-whee], substantially as deseribed.

In testimony that I c1aim tl1e foregoing as 1ny own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence 0f uwo witnesses.

A. B. MORSE.

\Vitnesses EDWIN SELLECK, O. W. LAMBERTON.

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