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1878 Article-L. D. Wynkoop, Double Power Water Wheel |
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Treatise Relative to the Testing of Waterwheels and Machinery, 1878. pg. 55 |
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8/27/2020 12:50:06 PM |
In this improvement we have a device for combining wheels driven by the force of running water, and also by the weight of the fluid, both acting in the same direction, and the latter using the water which has already given power to the former.
Fig. 1 shows the external appearance of the case of the wheel, and Fig. 2 the two motors with their gearing. The stream is received at A, Fig. 1, and, by the spiral form of the case, is forced to receive a rotary motion as in the common Turbine. This water acts directly on the buckets, B, Fig. 2, which radiate from the center. They are connected to a hollow shaft, which carries the large bevel gear, C, gearing into the pinion, D, on the horizontal shaft.
Passing through the inside of this main shaft is the shaft, E, to which the scroll wheel, F, is secured at the bottom, and a bevel gear, smaller than C, at the top. This gear meshes with the pinion, G, on the horizontal shaft. After the water, by its rotary force, has done its work on B, it falls and operates F, giving it twice the speed of B. By this combination we claim that this device has twice the power of an ordinary wheel with the same weight and force of water. It has been tested by practical men with even greater results. There is now one of these wheels in successful operation in the machine shop of Messrs. CLAPP & HAMBLIN's, of this City, who have the exclusive right for the manufacture of the same in this State, and the public are invited to call and test it for themselves. The proprietors, L. D. Wynkoop and S. P. Stone, are now prepared to negotiate with any responsible parties for the right to manufacture the same in any State of the Union. In offering this to the public, we are aware that the cry of humbug will be made, but we guarantee all we claim for it, and we wish no one to engage in it until he is satisfied that what we claim is true. Any inquiries addressed to the proprietors, at Owosso, Mich., will be promptly attended to. |
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1878 L. D. Wynkoop, Double Power Water Wheel
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