US718739A

US718739A - Irrigator.

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Publication number: US718739A
Application number: US10877702A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward Ernest Steude
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-05-24
Filing date: 1902-05-24
Publication date: 1903-01-20
Anticipated expiration: 1920-01-20

Description

No. 718,739. PATENTED JAN, 20,1903.

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ANITE STATES EDWARD ERNEST STEUDE, OF NEVVOASTLE, CALIFORNIA.

IRRIGATOR.

SPESIFICATION formingoart of Letters Patent No. 718,739, dated January 20, 1903.

Application filed May 24, 1902. Serial No. 108,777. (lflo model.) I

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I. EDWARD ERNEST STEUDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newcastle, in the county of Placer and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Irrigators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to irrigators, and has for its object to provide an improved device of the class described which will possess points of advantage in convenience,utility, inexpensiveness, simplicity, effectiveness, and general eiiiciency.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved device of the class described which will distribute the water over a large area.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of an irrigator embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the upper end of the main water-pipe.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are denoted by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the support, which in the preferred form consists of a tripod 2, having an annular opening 3 in its top. A pipe, preferably forming a rightangle elbow, has its upper portion 4 secured in the annular opening 3 and its lower portion 5 provided at its end with means of attaching thereto a connection with a water-supply. (Not shown.) Such means in the form shown consist of an interiorly-screw-threaded collar 6, secured on the end of the lower portion 5 of the pipe. The upper end of the upper portion 4 of the pipe is provided with diametrically opposite projecting perforated ears 7 and has connected with it at points on each side intermediate such ears the lower ends ofa pintle 8, the lower part of which is U-shaped and the upper part of which is screw-threaded atits upper end. Asleeve 9, having its outer surface ground smooth, fits snugly over the upper portion 4 of the pipe and is provided at its top with hooks 10 to engage the perforated ears 7. An annular flange 11 is secured to the upper portion 4 of the pipe below the sleeve 9. 'A fountain-nozzle 12 is provided with a projecting nozzle portion 12, which may, if desired, have at its end a spray 14, and with a tubular body portion 12*, which fits over the sleeve 9, and has a smoothlyground bottom which rests on the flange 11. A water-wheel 14:, having the usual buckets 15 around its periphery, has its hub 16 fitted upon the lower part of the tubular body portion 12 of the fountain-nozzle 12. Below the wheel and resting upon the flange 11 is a disk 17, which extends beyond the periphery of the wheel 14 to distribute the water evenly. A small pipe 18 is tapped into the upper portion 4 of the main pipe below the flange 11 and extends outward and upward and then inward and is provided at its end with a nozzle 19, which directs the water against the buckets 15 to turn the wheel 14. The pipe 18 may be provided with means to control the flow of water, which means are herein shown as a valve 20. The tubular body portion 12 of the fountain-nozzle is interiorly screw-threaded at its upper end, and a cap 21 is screwed thereon. The cap 21 is provided centrally with an aperture 22 to receive the pintle 8, and a suitable cap 23 is provided to screw on the end of the pintle 8 after all the parts are in place.

The operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood and appreci ated.

A connection having been made with a suitable water-supply by means of a hose or other suitable device screwed into the collar 6, the valve 20 is opened and the water passes through the pipe 18 and nozzle 19 and is thrown against the buckets 15 of the wheel 14, driving it around, carrying the fountainnozzle 12 with it, and distributing the water over a large circular area. The projecting part of the disk 17, which forms a rim around the wheel 14, just below the buckets 15, serves to also distribute the water passing through the nozzle 19 similarly around the location of the irrigator. The speed with which the wheel 14 is turned, and consequently the distance to which the water is thrown, can be regulated by the valve 20.

I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the details of construction and arrangement as herein described and illustrated, as it is manifest that variations and modifications may be made in the features of construction and'arrangement in the adaptation of the device to various conditions of use without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention and improvements. I therefore reserve the right to all such variation and modification as properly fall within the scope of my invention and the terms of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An improved device of the class described, comprising a support, a pipe carried thereby and adapted to be connected with a water-supply, a sleeve fitting over said pipe and connected to its upper end, a nozzle having a tubular body portion revolubly supported on said sleeve, and means operated by a secondary jet of water for revolving said nozzle.

2. An improved device of the class described, comprising a support, a main pipe carried thereby and adapted to be connected with a water-supply, a sleeve fitting over said pipe, a nozzle having a tubular body portion revolubly supported on said sleeve, a Waterwheel revoluble with said nozzle, and a pipe leading from said main pipe and having a nozzle to direct a jet against the Water-wheel.

3. An improved device of the class described, comprising a support, a pipe carried thereby and provided with means of connection with a Water-supply, a tubular sleeve having its outer surface ground smooth and fitting about the pipe adjacent to its open end, a fountain-nozzle provided with a tubular body portion revoluble about the sleeve, and means operated by a secondary jet of Water for revolving said nozzle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of the subscribing witnessesl EDWARD ERNEST STEUDE.

\Vitnesses:

A. G. HATCH, P. H. STEUDE.