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(No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 1. J. F. DURHAM. WATER ELBVATOR.

No. 595,153. Patented Dee.7,189'7.

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J. F. DURHAM.

WATER BLBVATOR.

No. 595,153. PatentedDeo. 7,1897.

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JOIIN F. DURHAM, OF CALDVELL, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTIIS TO PERRY A. GROVES AND EDWTARD D. WVOOD, OF SAME PLACE, AND `WILLIAM II. MARTIN, OF SILVER CITY, IDAHO.

VVATlER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,153, dated December '7, 1897.

Application filed December 23, 1896. Serial No. 616,803. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN F. DURHAM, a citi Zen of the United States, residing at Caldwell, in the county of Canyon and State of Idaho, have invented a new and useful VateiElevator, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to contrive some inexpensive mechanism whereby the water of a river or other natural source 0f supply can be lifted to a sluice-box or other waterway, from whence the same may then be distributed to wherever wanted for mining or irrigating purposes. This I accomplish by the mechanism illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is an end elevation; and the group of views Figs. 4 and Fig. 5 are details of construction, which will be more fully described in the body of this specilication.

The numerals designate the parts referred to in the description of my invention.

The horizontal timbers l, l, 1", 1, 1d, and 1Q, having mounted thereon the inclined timbers E2, 2, 2b, 2C, 2d, and 2C, and the upright timbers 3 3 constitute the support or frame in which my invention is mounted. These parts are rmly united and the two uprights 3 3fL and 3b 3C have respectively mounted on their tops a pair of caps 4 4 and 4b 4, each of such pairs of caps being united bya block 5 5, provided with a threaded vertical aperture in which depend the adjusting-screws 6 6, which support from their lower ends the adjustable bearings of the large wheel 7. The latter is stronglybuilt and carries on its periphery an endless series of tubular buckets S, such buckets being constructed in the form of a V, so as to admit and discharge water from either one or both of their open ends.

On the shaft D of the wheel 7 is rigidly mounted a gear-wheel 10, the teeth or cogs of which mesh with the endless screw l1, the shaft 13 of which is journaled in the bearings 12 12, mounted on an extension from the adjustable bearings in which is journaled the wheel 7, and at the end of such shaft 13 is rigidly mounted the sprocket-wheel 14. To this sprocket-wheel the operative power is transmitted by means of an endless sprocketchain. The operatin g power may consist of horse, steam, or other suitable power.

In the group of views Fig. 4 is shown a side and end elevation and plan of the adjustable bearings for the wheel 7, as seen from the driving side. Such bearings consist of the upper box 15, provided with front and back flanges 15rb 15b, embracing the uprights 3 3, the upper half of the box l5 being provided with a socket 1U, in which to insert and by which to hang such bearings from the foot of the ad j Listing-screw 6, the base of such screw being provided with a flange or enlargement, which is inserted into the enlargement of such socket 16, and the upper and lower halves of such box 15 being united by bolts l5, the connection 17, and the block 18, the latter also having iianges 1S 18b for embracing the uprghts 3 3 and carrying the boxes 12 and 12a, in which the shaft of the screw 13 is journaled. Thus by means of the adjusting` screw 6 the bearing on the driving side may be adjusted to a suitable height, thereby lifting or lowering the wheel 7, as may become necessary with the rise and fall of the water. The bearing 20 for the opposite end of the shaft of the wheel 7 is like the box 15, and the adj Listing-screw 6 is connected with such opposite bearing in the same way as has been described of the parts on the driving side, the adjustment of the screw 6 being made to conform with that of the screw 6.

The buckets 8 may be provided with small apertures 19 to permit the escape of the air contained in such buckets while filling with Water.

My invention operates as follows: The frame of my water-lift is, in the rst place, firmly set in the bed of the river or watersource, and thereupon the same is connected with the power driving the bucket-wheel 7 in the direction indicated by the arrow seen in Fig. l. It will be observed that any lurch of my invention, either to the one or the other side, caused by a shift in the bed on which the same is mounted, will not aifect its operating, for the power-transmitting means will IOO ' adapt themselves or may be adapted to any position. The Wheel 7 in its revolutions will dip the buckets into the Water, there to fill themselves, and thereupon. elevate the lled buckets to the top of the Wheel, and in the ascent the buckets will empty the Water they hold into any suitable receptacle or receptacles which may be disposed at the sides of l the Wheel Where the buckets discharge.

Wheel and suitable means for driving the same, said Wheel having a peripheral series of buckets, said buckets each consisting of cylindrical or tubular sections arranged obliquely to the Wheel and meeting at the central plane thereof, substantially as described.

2. A Water-elevator comprising a Water- Wheel and suitable -means for driving the same, said Wheel having a peripheral series of buckets, said buckets each consisting of cylindrical or tubular sections arranged ob.

liquely to the Wheel and meeting at the central plane thereof, and said buckets having an air-outlet at the apex, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

J OI-IN F. DURI-IAM. Witnesses:

GEO. W. HAZEN, T. J. GEISLER.

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