US Patent: 5,643X
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| Water Wheel Applied to River Current to Operate Mills
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Patentee:
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| Joseph Wallace (exact or similar names) - Hartford, Ohio County, KY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Sep. 11, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For communicating motion to mill, and other works, by Applying a Water Wheel to the Current of a River, and for the machinery to effect the same; Joseph Wallace, Hartford, Ohio county, Kentucky, September 11,
A water wheel, made in the ordinary manner, has one end of its shaft supported on a wharf, or bluff, at the side of a river, and in order to communicate motion to the mill, is there connected to a horizontal shaft, by means of a universal joint. The other end of the shaft rests upon a boat moored in the river, at a distance of thirty feet, more or less, from the bank. The boat is retained in its place by arms which extend from it to frame work on the shore; and there is a contrivance for raising or lowering the gudgeon of the shaft in the boat. The claim is to "the mode of communicating motion to the mill and other works, by applying a water wheel to the current of a river, and in the machinery to effect the same, as above described.
The communicating of motion to machinery on shore, by a current wheel, has been frequently done; and we doubt the existence of anything in the application of the universal joint, upon which to found a claim; perhaps, however, we are fastidious, and others may see invention where we discover variation only.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 9, Dec. 1829 pgs. 407-408
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