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US4517A
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    • B63SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63HMARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING
    • B63H1/00Propulsive elements directly acting on water
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  • my invention consists in constructing a wheel with hinged folding buckets, the outer edges of which are supported, when thrown out, by stops or lanches projecting from the inside of the rim that extends out on each side of the wheel and incloses the buckets, the inside being furnished with a baling apparatus for freeing the wheel from water that may chance to leak in through the shrouding.
  • the construction is as follows:
  • the wheel is formed of an axle (a) and arms (Z2) inclcsed around the periphery by a shrouding or soling (c) for the buckets; this should be as nearly tight as practicable to avoid leakage.
  • the wheel will fioat wholly or in partand thus avoid much of the friction which otherwise would take place in consequence of the weight of the wheel; and also that the rims on each side of the buckets confine the water and therefore renders this wheel applicable as a breast wheel.

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UNTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CHRISTOPHER HAND, OF PORT ELIZABETH, NEX/V JERSEY.
WATER-WHEEL Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,517, dated May 16, 1846.
T 0 all whom it may conce-m Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER HAND, of Port Elizabeth, in the county of Cumberland and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful improvement in Vater- Vheels, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character thereof, which distinguishes it from all other things before known, and of the manner of making, constructing, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciicaticn, in whichj Figure l is a perspective view of the wheel, and Fig. 2, a vertical section thereof.
The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.
The nature of my invention consists in constructing a wheel with hinged folding buckets, the outer edges of which are supported, when thrown out, by stops or lanches projecting from the inside of the rim that extends out on each side of the wheel and incloses the buckets, the inside being furnished with a baling apparatus for freeing the wheel from water that may chance to leak in through the shrouding.
The construction is as follows: The wheel is formed of an axle (a) and arms (Z2) inclcsed around the periphery by a shrouding or soling (c) for the buckets; this should be as nearly tight as practicable to avoid leakage. On each side of this soling there is a rim (d) that projects beyond the shrouding equal to the depth of the bucket; this rim also extends inward toward the axle a sufficient distance to prevent the water from flowing into the wheel, when working in slack water. At proper intervals around the inside of the wheel and attached to the inner periphery of the soling, and to the arms scoops (c) for the purpose of catching water which may leak through, and discharge it by means of spouts (IL) leading from each end of the scoops along the inside of the rim to the inner edge of it where they are turned outward (one of these scoops is shown detached at Fig. 3. It will be readily perceived that by this means the inside of the wheel is constantly freed from water. The buckets are hinged to the sc-ling and stand out nearly in a radial line, when acted upon by the water and are supported by the stops projecting from the inside of each rim in the position (t, z", i) of Fig. 2, and when they have passed a vertical line from the shaft, they fall over 0n the scling as at (i2, 2, 2) when they would make backwater, if attached in the usual manner, the wheel being used as a breast or current wheel.
It will be obvious that the wheel will fioat wholly or in partand thus avoid much of the friction which otherwise would take place in consequence of the weight of the wheel; and also that the rims on each side of the buckets confine the water and therefore renders this wheel applicable as a breast wheel.
What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The employment of buckets hinged on the edge next the soling in combination with a wheel havino rims projecting from the periphery to confine the water to the buckets, as herein described,and l also claim providing such a wheel with scoops for the purpose of discharging such water as may leak through, as described.
CHRISTOPHER HAND.
l/Vitnesses JN0. K. TowNsEND, RICHARD C. HOLMES.
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US4204356A (en) * 1978-03-21 1980-05-27 Smith Laverne Underwater fishing lure reciprocating device
US6499939B2 (en) * 2001-03-27 2002-12-31 Eric E Downing Water wheel
US20080007067A1 (en) * 2005-01-19 2008-01-10 Byung-Sue Ryu Wind Turbine
US20100060008A1 (en) * 2008-09-08 2010-03-11 Lester Hostetler Wind and Water Turbine
US20100221106A1 (en) * 2007-12-14 2010-09-02 Vladimir Anatol Shreider Apparatus for receiving and transferring kinetic energy from water flow
US20110187112A1 (en) * 2010-01-29 2011-08-04 Michael Wayne Brace Hydro-kinetically powered electrical generator power head
US8120196B1 (en) * 2005-09-20 2012-02-21 Neese Stephen L Wave-powered water wheel type generator
US20120189446A1 (en) * 2011-01-21 2012-07-26 Saarem Myrl J Horizontal wind turbine with a vertical shaft
US20150252776A1 (en) * 2012-10-11 2015-09-10 Boudewijn Gabriel VAN ROMPAY Device for generating hydroelectric energy
US20170248113A1 (en) * 2009-10-02 2017-08-31 Jose Ramon Santana Hydrokinetic Transport Wheel Mount

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4204356A (en) * 1978-03-21 1980-05-27 Smith Laverne Underwater fishing lure reciprocating device
US6499939B2 (en) * 2001-03-27 2002-12-31 Eric E Downing Water wheel
US20080007067A1 (en) * 2005-01-19 2008-01-10 Byung-Sue Ryu Wind Turbine
US7591635B2 (en) * 2005-01-19 2009-09-22 Byung-Sue Ryu Wind turbine
US8120196B1 (en) * 2005-09-20 2012-02-21 Neese Stephen L Wave-powered water wheel type generator
US20100221106A1 (en) * 2007-12-14 2010-09-02 Vladimir Anatol Shreider Apparatus for receiving and transferring kinetic energy from water flow
US8310078B2 (en) * 2007-12-14 2012-11-13 Vladimir Anatol Shreider Apparatus for receiving and transferring kinetic energy from water flow
US20100060008A1 (en) * 2008-09-08 2010-03-11 Lester Hostetler Wind and Water Turbine
US8076791B2 (en) 2008-09-08 2011-12-13 Lester Hostetler Wind and water turbine
US20170248113A1 (en) * 2009-10-02 2017-08-31 Jose Ramon Santana Hydrokinetic Transport Wheel Mount
US10851758B2 (en) * 2009-10-02 2020-12-01 Jose Ramon Santana Hydrokinetic transport wheel mount
US20110187112A1 (en) * 2010-01-29 2011-08-04 Michael Wayne Brace Hydro-kinetically powered electrical generator power head
US20120189446A1 (en) * 2011-01-21 2012-07-26 Saarem Myrl J Horizontal wind turbine with a vertical shaft
US9534579B2 (en) * 2012-10-11 2017-01-03 Boudewijn Gabriel VAN ROMPAY Device for generating hydroelectric energy
US20150252776A1 (en) * 2012-10-11 2015-09-10 Boudewijn Gabriel VAN ROMPAY Device for generating hydroelectric energy

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