GB Patent: GB-181,604,019
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| Improved metallic engine, to work either by steam or water, which he denominates "Bodley's improved engine"
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Patentee:
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| George Bodley (exact or similar names) - Exeter, England |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 27, 1816 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| From Abridgments of Specifications Relating to the Steam Engine, Part I Vol. II, "This invention relates to a rotating power-wheel or engine. This wheel according to one modification is similar in construction to an overshot water wheel, furnished with buckets and mounted to revolve on a horizontal axis; the lower half of the wheel is inclosed by but free to revolve in a semicircular case, which contains metal in a liquid state, wherein the lower half of the wheel is immersed. The case is placed in or so near a steam boiler, that the water of the boiler may surround the case, for the purpose of keeping the metal contained in the case in a state of fusion; this must be quicksilver, or such other metal as will liquify at the temperature of boiling water. The steam from the boiler is admitted into the case beneath the wheel, inclining to that rising side where the buckets are inverted. The impulsive force of the steam drives out and displaces the liquid metal from the inverted buckets, which are then partially filled with steam, causing that side of the wheel to rise by reason of the loss of the weight of the metal, with which the descending buckets on the other side of the wheel are filled as soon as they dip into the case; by these means the wheel, being kept continuously out of balance, is caused to rotate."Water under pressure may be used instead of steam to displace the metal. The speed may be regulated by an ordinary ball governor. The case may be sufficiently high to admit of the wheel being entirely submerged, and the wheel may be fitted with expanding floats instead of ordinary buckets." |
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