US99614A - Improvement in current-wheels - Google Patents

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CtntellA Statler- @www Leners Patent No. 99,614, mea February@ 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURRENT-WHEELS.

The Schedule referred to in these`Letters Patent and making peutI of the same I, EUGENE A. WHITE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Tide and Current-Wheel, of which the following is aspecication.

My invention relates to the arrangement and combination of oats, pins, frame-work, 85o., in such a manner that by thetloatso'ering resistance upon one side of the wheel, and no resistance on the other side, the action of the water causes the wheel to turn in the same direction, whichever way the current of the water may run.

The accompanying drawing represent my wheel in a sluice-wayy d representing the sides;

c, the bottom.

I will state however, that the more common way,

and probably more convenient way of building and securing my wheel, Wllbe b'y dispensing with a sluice-` way, and resting it upon some rock on the bottom, or upon some composition placed there for that purpose, and using pilesv instead of the sides d of the sluiceway represented.` r Y a represents an upright shaft,"plaeed and revolving in the bottom c, and secured 'at thev top by means of the cross-bar b. l

k is a pinion or axle,ipassing through the bar b.

e f and g are floats, iu different positions.

s s are the arms, holding the floats.`

h h are connecting rods,'passing across from arm to another, strengthening'them. f r

p p are pins, which project upward from each arm s, excepting the top ones. l

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. In practical operatiomsupposing the current to be running in the direction indicated by the arrow ,in the drawing, the current strikes the floats e c, g g, and ff.4

The floats e e lay closely against the pins behind" them, resisting the pressure of the current.

The current in pushing them, pushes that side of the Wheel partly-round.' At the same time the-floats f j' rise as high as the connecting-rods h h will allow them to, and the water passes under them. The

floats g g, it will be noticed, are just commencing to rise.

When the iloats f f swing round to the place now `occupied by the lloats e e, they will assume the posi- 4tion of theoats e e, and help movethe wheel.

ln some cases it may be necessary to place weights on the floats, in order to makeV them drop readilyI at the right instant. l

By extending my floats, and making them wider, I

ner above described.

EUGENE A. WHITE. Witnesses: f N. P. KEMP,

KAEN MAHONEY.

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