US942811A - Water-wheel. - Google Patents

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PATENT @FFEQE JCI-IN LORRAEN BEEL, 0F GALEA, ILLINOIS.

WATER-VHEEL.

Patented Dee. "t, i909.

Appteaton filed June 17, 1909. Serial No. 502,703.

5531 Specification of Letters Patent.

To oil ywho/m may confiera: the other end being journaled in the bearing lie it known that', l, doi-i3: LORRAIN BEIL, a plate 2 before mentioned, and seeured to the citizen ot the United States, and a resident shaft is a hub 16, having at each end an anot Galena, in the eonnty of lo Daviess, State nular flange 17 which are connected at 5 oi illinois, have invented certain new and spaced intervals by pairs of vertical pins or 60 useful improvements in VVater-YWheels, of rods 18, the members of each pair beingr ar- \\'hirh the 'following is a speeication. ranged radiall with respect to the shaft and My invention is an improvement in water spaced a art trom each other.

wheels, and consists in certain novel con- A bla e or vane l5) is connected with eaeli 1e .strut-,tions and combinations of parts hereinpair of rods, each pair of rods forming a 65 after described and claimed. guide for the respective vane, by means of 'the object of the invention is to provide rollers 20, each blade being provided with a water wheel adapted to be partially iinfour pairs, two pairs en'ibraeing each rod. mers-ed in a stream in a horizontal position, Asshown in Fig. 5 the rollers are periph-- l5 aud wherein the rotor comprises a plurality erally grooved, and one member of each 70 ol. vertically movable vanes, which by the pair is arranged on oneside of the rod, and n'iovement of the rotor are moved out of and the other member on-tbe other side. The into the water. arrangement of the rollers permits the vane Heter-ring to the dra\\.'ings forming a part to move up and down on the rods, while at 20 bereut: Figure l is a plan view of the iur the same time it is constrained to retain a 75 provement.; Fig. 2 is a transverse section; lvertieal position with its plane lierpendicui"ig. I' is a seetion on the line 3 of Fig. l; lar to the plate 1. As shown in Fig. 3, the Fig. l is a side view oiIg a blade 1)artly in secvanes are. of lesser width than the length tion: and Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig. 4. ofthe rods, so that tl1ey.1m1y move a dis- 25 'the embodiment otthe invention shown in tance equal to their width, that is, they may 80 the drawings eomprises a trame which is be displaced bodilyvertically. substantially a halt eylinder` and is adapted The vertical movement is brought about to be placed horizontally' in a stream of by the eam plate before mentioned. As the water with the tlat sidethereotc substantially blades emerge from the open side of thel 3o parallel with the direction ot iiow of the trame and meet the torce of the current, in- 85 water, the rotor to be presently described dir'ated by the arrows in Fig. l, the rotor being supported in the easing and projecting eomprising the hub and vanes is rotated on through the open tlat side ot' the trame. the shaft, and as each blade engages the y'the trame is open, eomprising a substanam plate it is gradually lifted out of the .'55 tially seniieireular plate l ot' wood or other water until it rests upon tbt-i'horizonial por- 90 suitable material. and a bearing plate 2 artion of the plate. When again near thti" ranged above and ronrentrie with the plate, place ot emergence from the trame the blade and ronneeted therenith by radial arms 3 begins to tall, and when it. emerges it. is whirh radiate trom the bearing plate, aud again in lowered position. lt will be underto are provided with tuigularportions t whieh stood ythat tbe't'rame is intended to be half 95 are riveted to the plate l, as at 5. submerged in the Water, the upper half be- A\t approximately the center of the flat ing above the surface, and that the power side ol the plate l an extension t) is provided, may be transmitted from the shaft by any and a curved (fain plate or .guide plate 7 suitable means.

3. is seven-ed to the extension by one end, as Jaen blade is provided on its lower edge l00- at tu, `l'rom n'henee it rurves around eoneenlwith spaced bearings Q1. and with recesses trie'with the center ot the frame, gradually 22 between the bearings, and a roller 23 is rising. :is at t?, then extending subfiantially journaled in each recess, the rollers having horizontal `for fome distanee, as at t0, and trnnnions 24 journaled in the bearings. A'

.,o tht-,n jaduallydeseending,asat11,11ntilit guide or track 25 is arranged eoncentrie l05 inet-t the plate to wbir'h the other end is sewith the shaft near the periphery of the aureo, as at 4trame for engagement by the outer roller,

'theliame is 'n'ovided at the eenter of its and the inner roller engages the cam plate. lower t'aee with a .step l'iearing lf in which Tt will be understood that the guide 2:1 fol- 5 isV journatmlotlxe lower end ot a shaft: 14, lows the earnl plate and assists it to move 'H0'l the blades in the manner described, both tofA l. A water wheel comprising a' substan tially semicylindrical frame adapted to be partially immersed in a horizontal position in a stream, and `with the flat side thereof substantially parallel with the direction uof flow of the current, a vertical shaft jonrnaled at the center of the frame, a hub on the shaft within the' frame and provided at cach end with a marginal annular flange, radially arranged pairs of rods connecting the flanges at spaced intervals, a blade or vaney rfor each Iair of rods and provided with upper and ower'pairsof grooved rollers for engaging the rods ol the pair, rollers on the lower edges of the blades, and earn plates on which the rollers run, each plate compris ing an elevated horizontal portion offset from the bottoni of the frame and connected thereto by inclined portions, for the purpose shaft, a blade for each pair, each of said blades having an upper or lower pair of grooved rollers for engaging the rods of the pair, rollers onthe lower edges of the blades, and cam plates for engagement by the rollers to raise and lower the blades. i

A water Wheel comprising a. frame, a shaft journaled therein, a rotor on the shaft, said rotor col'nprising a hub, pairs or rods supported by the hub in spaced relation, the

members of each pair being in alinenient and radial to the hub, a blade supportedby cach pair, each of said blades having a plurality of pairs of grooved rollers tor each rod and engaging the rod between the memeeaje i 1 bers of the pairs, and a. cam late for raising and lowering the blades or the purpose specified.

4. A water Wheel comprising a frame, a shaft journaled therein,a rotor on the shaft, said rotor comprising a hub, pairs of rods supported by the hub in spaced relation, the members of each pair being 'Y in alinement and radial to the hub, a blade supported by each pair, each of said blades havinga plurality of pairs or" grooved rollers tor each rod and enga-ging the .'od between the members of the pairs, and means for raising and lowering the blades, for the purpose specified.

5. water wheel comprising a frame, a

shaft journaled therein, arotor on the shattw,

said rotor comprising a hub, pairs of rods" supported by the hub in spaced relation, the members of each pair being in alinement and radial to the hub, a blade for each air, means for connecting the blade to the ro s to permit said blade to` move longitudinally thereof, while retaining it perpendicular and -radial to the hub, and means for lifting the blades, for the purpose specified.

6. In a water wheel, a rotor, comprising a hub provided with spaced annular flanges, pairs of rods connecting the flanges at spaced intervals, the members of each pair oi? rods being arranged in alinement radial to the hub, a blade for each pair, l each of said blades having upper and lower pairs of grooved rollers for engaging the rods of the pairs, and means for lifting the blades in succession and permitting them to drop, for the purpose specified. r

7. In a waterwheel, a rotor, comprising a hub having spaced annular flanges, blades between the flanges and radial to thehub and in spaced relation, means for connecting the blades to the hub to permit them to move longitudinally 'thercoi while retaining them vertical and parallel to the longitudinal anisy of the hub, and means for lifting the blades, for the purpose set forth.

JOHN LORRAIN BEIL. Witnesses FRANK H. KNonnnn-n, FRANK R. Bain.

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