US Patent: 335,713
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Water Wheel
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Patentee:
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Russell R. Ogden (exact or similar names) - Bradford, McKean County, PA |
Manufacturer: |
Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Applied: |
Jun. 09, 1885 |
Granted: |
Feb. 09, 1886 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
This patent is an improvement on patent #192,304.
Abstract:
The improvements relate to that class of wheels having around their periphery a series of buckets within and against which a stream of water is projected from a hydrant or other source, for the purpose of imparting rotary motion to the wheel, of which the wheel described in patent dated June 19, 1877, No. 192,304, to Stearns and Ogden, is an example.
The present invention consists in improvements in the construction of the buckets showa and described in said patent, whereby material advantages are secured thereover.
Claim:
A bucket for a water-wheel, having a transversely extending elliptical or oval shaped mouth and curved sides and top and bottom gradually tapering from the mouth to the rear end. |
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