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1878 Article-Holyoke Machine Co.-Fourneyron Water Wheel |
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Treatise Relative to the Testing of Water Wheels & Machinery, 1878, pg. 47 |
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8/25/2020 1:51:13 PM |
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The Fourneyron wheel receives the water from the Inside, discharging it outwards. The gate, a thin hoop somewhat deeper than the wheel, is placed between the chutes and wheel, and is opened by being raised With such an arrangement, economical part gate results are impossible; and M. Fourneyron and many others have made the wheel with divisions in the buckets as shown in the MacAdam plan. The “quarter turn” of the Holyoke Machine Co. is the invention of Mr. Hoyden. Mac Adam places the wheel at the small end of a vertical cone-shaped tube. Valentine and others have placed it in scroll and various kinds of curbs. It has been constructed so as to receive the water from below by many parties. It has been made with register gate inside of chutes, between chutes and wheel, and in one case in my experience, with two register gates, one inside of chutes, the other outside of wheel. It has been made with short straight chutes, also long curved ones. It has been suspended by the upper end of its shaft in various ways, instead of resting upon a step It has been made of iron in the coarsest and cheapest style, and of bronze at an enormous cost. It has proved as variable in useful effect as any of the other kinds of turbines |
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1878 Holyoke Machine Co.-Fourneyron Water Wheel
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