US789993A

US789993A - Wind-wheel.

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Publication number: US789993A
Application number: US18027303A
Authority: US
Inventors: Aurel Von Muntean; Samuel Birtler
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-11-07
Filing date: 1903-11-07
Publication date: 1905-05-16
Anticipated expiration: 1922-05-16

Description

No. 789,998. a

w UNITED STATEs Patented May 16, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WIND-WHEEL.`

- sPEoIFIeA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,993, aated May 16, 1905.

' Application fiied November 7,1908; sensi No. 180,278.

T0 all whom it nuty concrn:

Be it known that we, AUREL VON MUNTEAN 'and SAMUEL BIRTLER, subjects of the King of i Austrla Hungary, residing. at Szaszvaros, i

Austria-Hungary, havel invented a new and useful VVind-Vheel, of which the following is va full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to windwheels; and its object is to 'provide'a wheell which will always be rotated in one direction by the wind whatever the'direction of the latter may be without the necessit'y of first adjusting the position of the wheel. Simple and convenient means for stopping the wheel are also provided.

in section on line CD of Fig. i; Fig. 6, a plan,

partly in'horizontal section, of a modified form of wheel; and Fig. 7 a secti'onal elevation of Fig. 6.

The wind-wheel consists of the upper and lower horizontally-disposed disks a and b, which are mounted to rotate on a verticallydisposed shaft e, and between which the sails o, of canvas or other flexible material, are mounted. These sails are curved in plan View and are fastened to the top 'and bottom disks, along their edges, in any suitable manner. The lower disk is mounted in. the device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 so as to be capable of movement toward the upper disk, and when the dis'ks are thus closed up against each other the sails will be folded and the wheel will cease rotating,because the wind will no longer have access to the sails. In order to raise the lower disk Z) and close it against the upper one, a, the former is provided with a ring g, by which it is coupled to the shaft by means of a key or feather and recess in the known manner so that the disk will rotate with the said shaft, but will be free to slide on the same. The disk g runs on a ball-bearing, the lower cup of which isv formed by the upper "flange e' of a sleeve L, mounted onthe 'standards k, the said sleeve being held against rotation -by means of a key or feather Z and recess in the standard-top. This sleeve is provided with a rack m, and a pinion engages in the same at the upper part, said pinion being mounted o n a suitable shaft journaled in the upper-part of the standards lc. The shaft 0 'of the pinion p is provided with a crank-handle n, so that whenthe handle; and with it Vthe pinion, is turned the sleeve /t may be raised up and closed against the upper disk a, whereby the sails will be folded between the two disks.

The shaft is journaled at its lower end in a thrust-block bearing f and may carry a suitable gear at its lower end for transmitting power to any desired mechanism.

In the device illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7 the wheel is formed to a turbine-wheel,-the wind entering the same in a horizontalv plane and leaving it in avertical direction.A In this case the upper plate r is provided with a central dip W, and the lower plate 8 is also provided with a downwardly-extending central fiange 8', leaving a central downward opening, the said lower plate 8 being attached to the ring g by means of bars or spokes t. Around the wheel is mounted a stationary ring a, having guide-blades o therein to guide the wind into the wheel. The means for raising the lower disk to close up against the upper one and the arrangement of the sails in this modification are similar to that of the device first described, with the difference that the inner ends of the sails are of course defiected in the known manner, as will be clearly seen on reference to Fig. 6 of the drawings.

VVe claim as our invention- 1. A horizontally-disposed wind-wheel consisting of twov superposed disks, having the sails attached along the tops and bottoms between them a Vertical shaft to carry the said disks, means for normally keeping the sails `stretched, and means for moving the disks to close them together and fold the sails in the manner and for the described.

2. A horizontally-disposed wind-wheel consisting of two superposed diSkS having the Sails attaehed along the tops and bottoms between them, means for normally keeping the Sails stretched, means for elosing the disks together, the said Sails being eurved radially, in plan view in the manner and for the purpose substantially as deseribed.

3. A horizontally-disposed wind-wheel consisting of two superposed disks having the Sails attached along the tops and bottoms between them a Vertical Shaft to carry the whole, means for normally keepingthe Sails stretched, and means for raising the lower disk to close against the upper one and fold up the Sails in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

4. A horizontally-disposed wind-wheel,eonsisting of a pair of superposed disks, a Vertically-mounted shaft to carry the said disks, a Series of Sails of fiexible material having their top and bottom edges attaehed respeetively to the upper and lower disks, and means for moving one of the Said disks longitudinally on the supporting-Shaft in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

5. A horizontally-disposed wind-wheel,eonsisting of a pair of Superposed disks having purpose substantially as their central portions annularly defleeted to form a lower Outlet, a Series of fiexible Sails mounted between the said disks, means for moving one of the Said disks toward the other, a vertically-disposed shaft to carry the whole` and a stationary ring surrounding the said wheel and having guide-wings therein in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

6. A horizontally-disposed wind-wheeLconsisting of an upper and a lower disk having a series of fiexible Sails mounted between the same, a Vertical Shaft to which the upper disk is fixed, and on which the lower disk is slidably mounted on a key or feather, a sleeve Surrounding the lower part of the said shaft and a frame to support the Same, ball-bearings inserted between the top of said sleeve and the lower surface of the lower disk, and means for raising and lowering the said sleeve at will in the manner and for the purpose Substantially as described.

ln witness whereof we have hereunto Set our hands in presence of two witnesses.

AUREL V. MUNTEAN.

SAMUEL BIRTLER.

Witnesses:

MARCELL PXTOR, LOUIS VANDoR.