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UITE STATESPATENT OFFICE.
BERNARD W. MASTERSON, OF LAREDO, TEXAS.
WATER-WHEEL.
952,919. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 22, 1910.
Application filed April 28, 1909. Serial No. 492,659.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, BERNARD W. MASTER-
SoN, a citizen of the United States, residing
at Laredo, in the county of Webb and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful
Water-Wheel, of which the following is a
specification.
The objects of the invention are, gener-
ally, the provision, in a merchantable form,
10 of a device of the class above mentioned
which shall be inexpensive to manufacture,
facile in operation and devoid of compli-
cated parts; specifically, the provision of a
motor which will operate with equal facil-
15 ity whether totally or partially submerged;
the provision of a motor embodying piv-
oted blades, and means for locking the blades
in closed position when the wheel of the mo-
tor is partly submerged and for locking the
20 said blades when the motor is nearly or to-
tally submerged; other and further objects
being made manifest hereinafter as the de-
scription of the invention progresses.
The invention consists in the novel con-
25 struction and arrangement of parts, herein-
after described, delineated in the accompa-
nying drawings and particularly pointed out
in that portion of this instrument wherein
patentable novelty is claimed for certain dis-
30 tinctive and peculiar features of the device,
it being understood that within the scope of
what hereinafter thus is claimed, divers
changes in the form, proportions, size and
minor details of the structure may be made
35 without departing from the spirit or sacri-
ficing any of the advantages of the inven-
tion.
Similar numerals of reference are em-
ployed to denote corresponding parts
40 throughout the several figures of the draw-
ings.
In the accompanying drawings :-Figure
1 shows my invention in top plan, the doors
being locked ; Fig. 2 is an end elevation
45 showing the doors open and rising out of
the stream; Fig. 3 shows my invention in
vertical transverse section, the doors being
locked; Fig. 4 is a. detail perspective of the
locking mechanism; Fig. 5 is a detail per-
50 spective of the means for actuating the lock-
ing mechanism; and Fig. 6 is a transverse
section showing in detail one of the spokes
and the doors which are mounted to swing
thereon.
.55 In carrying out my .invention I provide,
primarily, a suitable base designed to beanchored in the bed of a stream. Rising
from either side of this base are frame posts
in which are journaled for rotation the op-
posite ends of a main shaft. These frame 60
posts may be pillars of rock or concrete or
they may be fashioned from metal. The
main shaft is provided with a series of
spaced hubs having radial spokes to which
are pivoted the doors or paddles, in such po- 65
sition that when the motor is rotating in a
stream, these doors or paddles will be closed
after the spokes have passed their vertical
centers and are descending on the upstream
side of the wheel. Each door will remain 70
in this position until after the spoke has
passed its vertical center on the lower side
of the shaft and starts to raise when the door
will gravitate into open position, so as to
present a feathering edge to the water 75
through which it passes.
A suitable operating means is employed
to lock these doors so that each door after
passing the vertical center of the spoke on
the lower side of the shaft will, when de- 80
sired, be locked against movement on the as-
cent of the spoke. The structure employed
to perform this operation consists in a plh-
rality of latches having their intermediate
portions pivoted to the spokes and their up- 85
per ends designed to engage suitable keepers
mounted on the faces of the doors. The op-
posite ends of the latches are pivoted to an
operating rod disposed between the separate
sets of spokes parallel with the main shaft. 90
Upon one end of the motor a lever is
mounted within easy reach of the operator
and connection is made between the lever
and the end of the operating rod by means
of a suitable yoke adapted to engage the 95
ends of the operating rod, whereby to force
the latches into or out of engagement with
the keepers.
The base 1 may be any suitable structure,
its length corresponding to the length of the 100
motor and it may extend partially or en-
tirely across the stream in which it is
anchored. A frame post 2 rises from the
base 1 at either end thereof. A plurality of
grating rods 3 are provided and these grat- 105
ing rods, as shown in Fig. 2, are arcuate in
outline, their lower terminals being rigidly
assembled with the base 1, their upper termi-
nals curving above the motor to house the
same against the intrusion of floating ob- 110
jects. There may be any number of these
grating rods spaced at suitable distances
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Masterson, Bernard W. Water-Wheel, patent, March 10, 1910; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513564/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.