NEW CURRENT WHEEL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 205, 4 January 1872, Page 6

NEW CURRENT WHEEL.

The " Southland News " gives an, accountof a new current wheel invented by Mr Thomson, of Bluff Harbour, but before that gentleman made hisdiscovery known, an American had made the same invention. The following discription of the invention is from the "Scientific American." Tbe buckets or floats are hinged to the outer ends of. the arms and swing back toward the shaft, so that on the lower side, where ihe water acts on them, they are supported by the arms," and thereby receive tbe force of the water ; but on the , upper and retiring side, in case the water be higher than the shaft, they" will swing away from the* arms. When they come down to take the wafer, they are prevented from, swinging outward ' by the action of the water. This wheel may be wholly immersed in the water and secured to the bottom of the stream, or it may be at the surface. The gate consist of a semicircular case, having closed ends, pivoted to the supports of the wheel in the axis, so as to. . swing around the wheel in opening and olosing. For operating it, it has curved slots in each head, with toothed racks in which pinions work, the pinions being actuated by suitable mechanism. Invented by William Tudor, of Moffettown, Texas,

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