US383894A - Water-fetching machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) Y l C. G. MATTSON.

WATER PETGHNG MACHINE.

No". 388,894. Patented Juny 5, 1888.

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llNrrnD STATES CHARLES GUSTAF MATTS'ON, OF LINDSTROM, MINNESOTA.

WATER-FETCHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.383,894, dated J une 5,1888.

Application filed April I4, 1887. Serial No. 234,978. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, Cuantas G. MAfrTsoN, a citizen ofthe United States, and a residentof Lindstrom, Chisago county, Minnesota, have invented a certain new and useful Tater- Fetching Machine, of which the following is a specilication, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention consists in the construction hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

In the drawing like letters refer to like parts.

The figure is a side elevation of my device in position for work, a part of the lake and bank being represented in vertical section.

A is a lake or stream of water.

B is an adjacent bank of the same.

C is an inverted box having an open bottom or perforated sides. This box is sunk in the lake far enough-to bring its bottom below the level of the ice-line, and is there secured by fastening it to piles D, or in any other suitable way, as by weighting it with stones or otherwise. This box C is composed of the vertical sides c, the inclined top c', the short vertical end c, the longer vertical end piece, 0",and the hinged or pivot-ed section or door E. These parts when put together constitute a box having an open bottom andan inclined top. The box is made of suflicient size so that it may be immersed in the lake far enough to bring the lower edges of the sides and ends below the ice-line and allow the longer vertical end piece c to protrude out of the lake above the highwater level. The top c is attached to the top of the vertical end piece c and the vertical sides c. The-upper ends of the vertical sides are inclined, as shown at F, and are thus supported in an inclined position with one end immersed in the lake and the other out of it. The door E is pivotally attached at its lower edge to the upper end of the vertical end piece c, and when closed its upper edge is flush against the under surface of the top c.

To the inner surface of the end piece c" is attached an eyebolt or staple, G. In the adjacent bank is ixed a post, H, extending to a height of six or seven feet, provided with a vertical slot or hole in its upper extremity. In the rear of the post H is fixed an anchoringriage, M, resting on and moving over said cable by anti-friction rollers. To the forward or upper end of the carriage is attached a wire or rope, N, which extends to and wraps around the windlass K. To the under side of the trolley M is pivotally secured by its bail the water-bucket P. A stop, R, is fastened to the under side of the trolley-frame directly over the lower edge of the bucket to prevent its tilting except in one direction, or the bail may be so proportioned and attached to the bucket and trolley as to accomplish the same result.

To the top piece, c', or some other suitable part of the box, is lattached the frame T, and to some convenient part ofthe same, as to the longitudinal central girder, t, is fulcrumed a lever, T. To the upper end of the top piece,c, is attached a small sheave, q. From the lower extremity of the lever T', over the sheave q to an eyebolt or staple, g', attached to the upper outer end of the door E, extends a wire or rope, T". From thc upper extremity of the lever T a wire or rope, T, extends to the post H, and is secured to the same at some point convenient to the windlass.

The operation of my device is as follows: Slacking the wire T, the door E falls by gravity, affording an opening to the interior of the box C. Unlocking the windlass, the trolley' and its attached water-bucket will run down the inclined cable, by gravity, into the interior of the box. As it comes to the water, the lower edge of the bucket will strike first and be thrown backward, tilting the upper part of the bucket forward and causing it to dip and till with water. It will then assume the vertical position and will be prevented from 95 tilting in the opposite direction beyond the vertical line by the stop R on the trolley-frame. By turning the windlass the rope or wire is wound around the drum and the trolley and This bucket of water are drawn to the shore.

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operation is continued until the requisite quantity of water has been obtained. lIhen the door E is closed by drawing in the rope or wire T', l and so remains until it is again necessary to have water. I have had this construction in continuous use during the whole of the past winter, which was an unusually severe one, in a lake located in Minnesota and the part of the lake inclosed within the box never froze over, though the adjacent ice reached a depth of several feet. I was thereby able to obtain all the water I needed for my stock and other purposes with perfect facility7 even in the most severely cold weather.

What I claim,and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is as follows:

The waterelevator comprising waterbox C, as described, consisting of the vertical sides and ends c c c and inclined top o', said box being fastened at a fixed depth in the lale,as by piling D, the door E, pivotcd to the top of end c", the eyebolt G,fastened to interior of c", the posts H and H on the adjacent shore, the cable L, extending from post H to post H through the top of post H, the traveler M, movable on cable L, provided with the stop R, the pivoted dipping water-bucket l?, the drum or windlass K, journaled on post H and provided with the crank K, the wire or rope N, attached to said drum and to said traveler, the frame or lever support T,- the lever T', fulcrumed on said frame, the sheave q, the rope T, attached to the lower extremity of the lever T and to upper end of door E by eyebolt G, and the hand-wire T, attached to the top of lever T', and extending to a point within reach of the operator, al'l substantially as and for the purpose set forth. l

CHARLES GUSIAF MATTSON. Viitnesses:

JOHN SHALEEN, D. D. STEWART.

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