US61059A - elmee - Google Patents

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nitrh tat atwt @fitta W". H. ELMER, OF FAIR WATER, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 61,059, @lated January S, `1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, W. I-I. ELMER, of Fair Water, in the county of Fond du Lac, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved l/Vater-W'heel; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and'use the same', reference being` had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a vertical central section of my invention taken in the line :c x, iig. 2.

Figure 2, a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line y y, tig. l.

Similar letters oi' reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved horizontal water-wheel, and it consists in anovel andimproved manner of applying the water to wheel whereby several important advantages are obtained, as hereinafter fully shown andfdescrbed. l

A represents the wheel, which is of annular form, and has its shaft, B, stepped in a frame, O,.the wheel resting on a yoke, D, which is rmly keyed or otherwise secured on the shaft, as shown in g. 1. E represents a cylinder case, which is supported by standards, a, from the frame C. This case, it will be seen, is Xed or stationary, the shaft B extending centrally upward through the same. At the lower part of the case E there are four inclined spiral chutes, F, which conduct the water to the buckets G of the wheel1 The wheel A, it will be seen, encompasses the chutes F, the case E being cverthe centre of the space within the wheel, and the water consequently enters the wheel at its inner side, and is discharged at its outer side. The buckets are composed ot' a radial portion, b, and an outer segmental portion, c, issues d being between the portions c, as shown in iig. Q. The water `acts by impact against the portions L of the buckets, while the segmental portions c retain the water or prevent its too ready escape. 'lhe chutes F direct the water to the buckets, so that the former will impinge against the latter at right angles. The water is admitted into the ycase E through an opening, e, and it is designed to have the supply greater than the discharge, so that a full pressure and head will always be obtained. By this arrangement .there will be but little loss of power by friction of the water in passing to and through the wheel. The water has a less distance to travel in passing through `the wheel than when an external curb is used, and in case of repairs'the wheel is easily rendered accessible by removing the case E.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire toisecureby Letters Patent, is-

A horizontal water-wheel provided with buckets Gr, composed of radial and segmental portions, b c, as shown, in combination with a central case, E, and chutes F, all arranged to operate substantially in the manner: as set forth.

W.. I-I. ELMER.h

Witnesses:

WILLIAM Ptocnnn, JAMES O. M. HEWITT.

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