US674634A - Self-recording water-gage. - Google Patents

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No. 674,634. Patented May 2|, IQUI. 0. C. PATTON.

SELF RECORDING WATER GAGE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT.

OLIVER. C. PATTON, OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO.

SELF-RECORDING WATER-GAGE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 674,634, dated May 21, 190' 1.

Application filed October 4:, 1899. Serial No. 732,656. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER C. PATTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Grand Junction, in the county of Mesa and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Self- Recording Water-Gages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in self-registering water-gages for all kinds of ditches, the object being to provide a machine adapted to be placed at or near the head-gate of ditches or in ditches at any point or in laterals and to register the amount of water used or taken through the ditch at all times and to indicate the exact amount taken or used during each and every hour of the day by means of an automatic recording device.

With the foregoing object in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a view of the registering paper or sheet.

The base or foundation plate 1 is mounted on suitable piles or posts. (Not shown.) A float 3, made of tin or other sheet metal, hollow and concaved at the bottom, extends be low the base or foundation plate and moves freely with the rise and fall of the water upon which it rests. Adjustably secured to this float by means of the set-screw 4 is the floatstandard 5. Said standard passes loosely through guide- boxes 6 and 7, which confine its movements to an endwise vertical direction. On one side of the float-standard rackteeth 8 are formed. A horizontal shaft 9 is revolubly supported in bearings 10 10, and on this shaft large and small gear-wheels l1 and 12 are secured, the teeth of the larger gear-wheel 11 meshing with the teeth on the float-standard and deriving motion from the rising and falling movements of said standard as it fluctuates with the changes in Water elevation in the ditch. A horizontally-disposed recording-bar 13 is held in boxes 14 1,4, and it has teeth 15, extending approximately its entire length on the lower surface thereof, which mesh with the teeth of the smaller gear-wheel 12, from which said recordingbar derives its motion. This recording-bar carries a clasp 16 at or near one end, in which a pen or pencilis removably secured.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the motion of the water in the ditch is communicated, through the float, float-standard, horizontal shaft, and connected gear-wheels, to the recording-bar and its pen or pencil, which results in sliding said recording-bar back and forth endwise in a horizontal direction.

Immediately beneath the pen or pencil a suitable recording-sheet is carried. This recording-sheet is shown in Fig. l and, as indicated, is marked in squares by lines drawn both lengthwise and crosswise thereof, the cross-lines being heaviest on the inch or hour divisions and numbered consecutively from 1 to 12 to correspond-with the hours on the clock. Each inch is divided on the paper into twelve divisions and represent each five minutes of the hour by light lines running crosswise of the paper, and the lines running lengthwise are also light lines and spaced at about one-eighth of an inch apart. The roll of paper preferably contains about two hundred feet and is adapted to run about three and a half months, or one irrigating season. 'This paper is drawn 0d of a roll 17 and is drawn across a table 18 beneath the recording pen or' pencil. Another roller 19 at the other side of the table receives one end of the paper, and the latter is pulled thereby at the rate of one inch per hour. The roller 19 has teeth or pegs 21 thereon to engage the paper and insure its movement over the roller as the latter turns. An upper roller 22 immediately above roller 19 holds the paper in place upon these pegs. A clock 23, preferably an eight-day clock, is connected with the axle of roller 22, whereby a continuous motion is imparted thereto and the paper is pulled at the rate of one inch per hour from the paper-roll. Thus it Will be seen that while the float, with its recording-bar, and the paper are actuated by independent forces, yet, nevertheless, they cooperate to effect the unitary result of recording the water fluctuation in the ditch or laterals.

It is the intention in addition to the mechanism described to equip the gage with an electric bell, so that ,on occasions of emergency the bell will give an alarm to the parties interested. To this end the contact-bar 25 is attached to the upper end of the floatstandard in position to close an electric circuit by connecting the ground-wire 26 and the line-wire 27 when the float and floatst-andard drop to a certain predetermined to the exact construction herein set forth; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is"

1. The combination with a float, a standard carried thereby and contactbar upon the standard adapted to make and break an electric circuit according to the position of the standard, of a recording pen or pencil operated by the movements of the floatand floatstandard, a recordingsheet and means independent of the mechanism for operating the pen or pencil for drawing the sheet at a predetermined and uniform speed.

2. The combination with a float and standard adjustably connected therewith, said standard having a contact-bar thereon for making and breaking an electric circuit according to the position of the float and standard, of a recording pen or pencil operated by the movements of the float and standard and a recoi'dingsheet drawn at a predetermined and uniform speed across the path of the pen or pencil.

3. 'lhecom bination with a float and floatstandard having teeth thereon, a shaft having gear-wheels thereon one of which is engaged by teeth on the standard and a toothed recording-bar, the teeth of which are engaged by the other gear-wheel said" bar carrying a pen or pencil holder, of a recording-sheet, a

' table over which thelatter is drawn, a roller standard having teeth thereon, a shaft having two gear-wheels thereon, one in engagement with the teeth on the standard, a toothed recording-bar with the teeth of which the other gear-wheel engages said bar having a spring pen or pencil holder thereon adapted to removably hold a pencil, of a recordingstrip, rollers therefor, a table over which the latter is drawn and a. clock mechanism for imparting motion to one of said rollers for pulling the paper at a uniform and predetermined speed across the path of the pen or pencil whereby the reciprocating movements of the pen or pencil are registered upon the strip.

5. The combination with a framework, a float-casing and float-carrying a toothed standard, of a recording-bar carrying a pen or pencil, means for communicating motion from the standard to the bar, a recording-strip and means for pulling the latter across the path of the recording pen or pencil at a uniform speed.

6. The combination with a recording-sheet, and means for imparting astraight rectilinear movement thereto, of a float, an extensible standard connected therewith, and a recording device actuated by the float for marking upon the sheet during the continuous endwise movement of the latter.

7. The combination with a float, a toothed standard, and a shaft having large and small gearwheels thereon, one meshed with the teeth on the standard, a rack-bar carrying a recording device, the teeth of this bar intermeshed with the teeth .of the other gear-wheel on the shaft, of a recording-sheet and means for imparting a continuous endw-ise movement thereto.

8. The combination with a float, an extensible standard and a shaft having large and small gear-Wheels thereon, one meshed with the teeth on the standard, a rackebar carrying a recording device, the teeth of this bar inter-meshed with the teeth of the other gearwheel on the shaft, of a recording-sheet and means for imparting a continuous endwise movement thereto.

OLIVER C. PATTON. In presence of J. S. OARNAHAN, T. R. SULLIVAN.

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