US164823A - Improvement in water-wheels - Google Patents

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NTTED STATES PATENT Orrlon J OllN ERIKSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO NELSON OLESON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,823, dated J une 22, 1875; application tiled January 14, 1875.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ERrKsoN, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, have invented certain new and `useful Improvements in Waten Wheels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which p Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section, showing the wheel with its operating devices as arranged and combined when placed on top of the lume or water-pipe; and Fig. 2 is asimilar section, showing the wheel as arrangedwhen .placed upon one side of the flume.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

The object of my invention is to provide a water-wheel that may be used with equal advantage and efficiency, and without derangement of any of its operating parts, upon the top or side of the water-carrying ume, according' to local conditions and the option of the purchaser, and in which the water can be readily shut off or let on. It consists in the combination of devices, as hereinafter described and claimed. i

In the drawings, A represents a ilume or water-pipe, on the top or side of which the wheel may be placed. c is the pipe, which supplies the wheel with water. The water passes through the pipe a into a skeleton cylinder, b, attached to said pipe, and from this cylinder passes into the wheel. O is a sliding sleeve or jacket, placed below the cylinder b, and just enough larger to fit snugly over it. rlhis sleeve, when raised, lits snugly over the vcylinder b, shutting entirely oli' the supply of l lar position, one end of the shaft g has its bearing in the bar h, which is placed across the top of pipe a, and the opposite end in the bent arm m; but when running in a horizontal position, the shaft g turns on a pivot, a,

which is inserted in the bar h, the opposite end of the shaft being supported by the bent arm m.

Attached to the wheel W is a collar, o, and set-screw s, by which the shaft g is fastened in proper position to the wheel; and on the shaft is another collar, t, and set-screw n.

By means of these two set-screws the shaft may be raised so as to turn on the pivot n, or lowered so as to turn in the bar h.

It will be observed, from the foregoing description, that the wheel W, with all its appurtenances, is placed entirely outside of the flume, no part thereof projecting within the same; and, also, that the wheel may beused with equal efficiency either in its horizontal or vertical position, as local conditions mayV render most desirable, by simply adjustingv the shaft g either on the pivot n and bent arm m,.or in the bar AL and bent arm m, which is easily done by the collars o t with their respective set-screws s o.

j It will also be observed that the shaft g does not, as is usually the case in turbines and water-wheelsvwhere the supply of water y is regulated by a circular gate or sleeve, re-

` t and set-screw o, and all arranged exteriorl y 4 to the flume or water-pipe A, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

2. rEhe sleeve O, in combination with the arms c and c, bar d, and long lever-arm f, when arranged and operating exteriorly to the flume A, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I` have hereunto set my hand.

JOHN ERIKSON.

Witnesses:

`Jar/ins G. SMITH, Lnwis MAIsTo.

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