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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
GEORGE WASHINGTON MEFFERD, OF STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS.
WATER-ELEVATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,858, dated July 19, 1887.
Application filed November 2, 1886. Serial No. 217i805. (No model.)To all zowTonu it may concern:
Be it known that I, GEORGE WTASITINGTON
MIEFFERD, of Stephenville, in the county of
Erath and State of Texas, have invented a new
5 and Improved Water-Elevator, of which the
following is a fall, clear, and exact description.
My invention relates to elevators adapted
more particularly for lifting water from wells
or cisterns by the use of buckets, but appli-
To cable for use in other situations for bailing out.
liquids orfor otherpurposes; and theinvention
has for its object to provide a simple, inex-
pensive, and effective apparatus of this char-
acter which may be operated by a person of
15 ordinary intelligence and will accomplish its
work with economy of time and labor.
The invention consists in certain novel fea-
tures of construction and combinations of parts
of the water-elevator, all as hereinafter fully
20 described and claimed.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying
drawings, forming a part of this specification,
in which similar letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts in all the figures.
25 Figure l is a front elevation of my improved
water-elevator. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof,
with parts in vertical section, and shows how
the raised well-bucket is emptied; and Fig. 3
is a plan view of the bucket-receiving frame.
30 The elevator mechanism is supported on a
suitable frame comprising opposite side posts,
A A, which are supported on a base or sill
frame, B, and stayed thereto by braces a a.
The frame B, when sheathed, constitutes the
35 curb of the well C, over which it is placed.
A drum, D, is journaled by its shaft d at the
heads of the frame-posts A A, and at one end
the drum-shaft carries a balance-wheel, E, and
to its other end is fixed a chain-wheel, F, over
40 which a driving-chain, G, passes to a lower
chain-wheel, H, fixed to a shaft, h, journaled
in the frame and provided with a hand crank,
I, by turning which the drum D may be ro-
tated in either direction.
45 To the drum D are attached the ends of two
ropes, J K, to which buckets L will be at-
tached, the bucket on one rope only being
shown in full lines in the drawings. The
other bucket is supposed to be down in the
50 well. The ropes J K are wound around the
drum D in opposite directions, so that a turn-
ing of the drum in either direction will causeone of the two buckets (the filled one) to rise
while the empty bucket is being lowered to be
filled. 55
In the frame-posts A A, below the shaft d,
there is journaled a shaft, m. to which is fixed
between the posts a frame, N. which receives
the buckets as they are lifted from the well,
and empties the buckets when the shaft m is 6o
turned by its crank M, as presently described.
This frame N is made with a central long arm
or bar, in, which ranges transversely of the
shaft m and extends each way from the shaft
which passes through its center, and two 65
shorter arms or bars, n' n', which are fixed to
the shaft am and extend in opposite directions
therefrom about parallel with the central bar,
n. A. cross bar or piece, a, connects each of the
arms n' with the center bar, n, thereby forming 70
two pockets or forks, O P, to receive the two
well-buckets suspended from the ropes J K,
respectively, as the filled buckets rise from
the well. Between the arms n i' i' there are
held fixedly to the shaft m a couple of arms, 75
R S5 which are bent downward a little and are
tapered toward their outer ends, r s, respect-
ively, to take hold of the chines of the lifted
well-buckets.
The operation of the elevator is as follows: 80
As the filled bucket L on the rope J rises from
the well C it will enter the pocket or fork O
of theframeN, which frame will have the same
position relatively to the bucket as the frame
has to the bucket shown on the rope K in 85
dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and
while the frame N is being swung upward by
turning the crank 3M to the left hand the end
or toe r of the arm R will catch under the
chine of the bucket, and as the frame is swung 90
up farther the bucket will be turned bottom
upward to discharge its contents into another
bucket or into a trough set on the frame B to
receive the water. When the emptied bucket
L slips from the fully-lifted arm R, this bucket 95
will be lowered into the well to be filled by
turning the crank I, and this same motion of
the crank will lift the other now filled bucket
L, and as it rises into the pocket or fork P of
the frame N, orto the position shown in dotted 1oo
lines in Fig. 2, the crank M will be turned to
the right hand to catch the toe s of the arm S
under the chine of this bucket and upset it to
discharge its contents into a receptacle at the
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Mefferd, George Washington. Water Elevator., patent, July 19, 1887; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth171579/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.