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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MATTHEW L. HIALLENBECK, OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS.
TURBINE WHEEL.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,164, dated August 17, 1880.
Application filed May 19, 18d0. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern: disk L when the buckets J are in a closed po-
Be it known that I, MATTHEW L. HALLEN- Sition, and to rest in recesses O at one side of
BECK, of Georgetown, in the county of Wil- the openings N wltlu the buckets are open
liamson and State of Texas, have inventedeer- and being acted upon by the driving-power.
5 tain new and useful Improvements in Turbine Within the ring E, and secured to the lower 55
Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the fol- face of the upper portion, B, of the casing, are
lowing is afull, clear, and exact description of cams P, inclined, as shown, against which the
the invention, which will enable others skilled arms M of the buckets J strike to open the buck-
in the art to which it appertains to make and ets, so that they nmay assume a vertical posi-
ro use the same, reference being had to the ac- tion to receive the full force of the driving- 60o
companying drawings, which form a part of power.
this specification. Tihe track or way I, in which the buckets J
Figure 1 is a plan view of the lower portion travel, is divided into two equal parts by par-
of the casing. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the titions Q, located inline with the edgesof the
15 wheel with the upper portion of the casing re- discharge-openings C, and nearesttothe gates 65
moved. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the up- R, through which the water or steam is ad-
per portion of the casing. Fig. 4 is a vertical mitted to the wheel.
sectional view, taken through the gates and The sections of the peripheral wall are re-
their connecting-arm. Fig. 5 is a detail view cessed at S, to form a groove when united, in
20 of one of the buckets, and Fig. 6 is a perspec- which the periphery of the annular disk L 70
tive view of my improved water-wheel. travels when driven.
Similar letters of reference refer to corre- Strips T, having beveled or inclined ends,
sponding parts in the several figures of the traverse the discharge-openings C, and areiu-
drawings. tended to close the buckets J when they ar-
25 This invention relates to turbine wheels; rive at said strips, in order that the water or 75
and it consists in the improvements in the con- steam may escape through said discharge-
struction of the same, hereinafter fully de- openings.
scribed, and particularly pointed out in the Inclined strips U are secured to the upper
claims. sections of the partitions Q, so as to come di-
30 The casing of this improved turbine wheel rectly over the strips T, for the purpose of pre- 80o
is constructed in two portions, A and B, the venting back action of the driving-power upon
portion A of which is provided with the dis- the buckets at the point of escape.
charge-openings C. I will describe the wheel The interior of the ring D upon the base A
as used in a horizontal position, although it should be provided with holes to permit the
35 may be used either horizontally or vertically, escape of any water that may be pressed into 85
as an undershot or overshot wheel, and may the same.
be driven equally as well with steam-power as The doors or gates R, which close the ingress-
with water-power. The base or lower portion, openings, are connected to the ends of an arm,
A, is provided with an internal annular parti- V, provided with a lever, W, antd pivoted to
40 tion or ring, D, which unites with a similar the center shaft, X, so that the gates may be go
ring, E, depending from the upper portion, B, entirely closed, or may be adjusted to gage the
of the casing, which, together with the circum- quantity of water or steam to be admitted to
ferential walls G H of the easing, form the the wheel.
space I, which the buckets J traverse when The two sections of the casing are secured
45 the wheel is in operation. The buckets J are together by headed bolts provided with nuts 95
pivoted in rectangular openings K in an an- and washers, as shown, and are intended to
nular disk, L, and are provided with arms M form a water-tight or steam-tight casing.
at the inner ends of their extended bearings, Within the rectangular opening in which
saidarmsMIbeingarrangedto projectupwardly the buckets work are placed stops Y, which
So through circular or other openings N in the enter recesses Z in the lower front faces of the ioo
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Hallenbeck, Matthew L. Turbine Wheel., patent, August 17, 1880; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth170026/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.