Smyrna times., 1856-01-16
Communications.
Correspondence Of the Smyrna Times.
SPRING MILLS. Jim lotb 1886

SPRING Mills, Jun 18th. 1856.
Mr.. EDIrOR--Drar Sir: 1t affords me plea.
sure TO reply to the inquiries and remarks Of
your correspondent "Miller," relative to IN.
kind OF wheel, &c, experimental on bv me
II would, however, have been more pleasan, to
me, and perhaps equally profitable, had he writ.
ten over his real name.
The wheel that experimental on is breas,
wheel fourteen feet in diameter; aud should
have said in my former communication, com.
posed chiefly of iron, instead of suyng an iron.
water-wheel.
Your correspondent cannot conceive bov
water from an eight or nine feet head. can b.
thrown from jets so as to wash the ice from
wheel the top OF which is some five or SIX fee,
above the head The thing is as plain ms q
circle; and 1t is strange that your correspon.
dent, who has caused so many reyoIutions
should have forgotten that the top of the wheel
becomes the bottom every time it revoIves.
consequently, the jets, if rightly directed. have
iaU pay upon the whole suriace OF the rim.
arms aud centre.
The wheel alluded to above, is entirely ex-
cluucd from the sun, except portion of the
south slde' and It's influence on that portion of
the wheel has been sufficient to prevent apv
trouble from ice up to the present cold spell =
But, on last Tuesday | found the wheel frozen
fast TO the head-block, and all the coaxing 7
could do with kettle of hot water. and Tho
whole force of the gate, would not induce il N
move. happened to have on hand two pieces
OF lead pipe one and one-quarter inch diam
eter; bored two auger hol,s in the breast;no
hfteen inches below the surface of the water
IN the torebuy, and inserted one end of each
pipe, laid the other on the head-block. upon
solid mass OF ice, and directed the lets on the
centre aud arms, which were loaded with ice |
and, although the pipes have since been encased
10 ice acculnulatIng from the spray of the wheel.
The water has continued to flow sufficiestlv
warm to free the wheel, snd the entire iron
centre IL now as clean as u stOve-plate. The
Jets spoken of in my former communication.
has kept the north side of the wheel free
through the past severe weather, and we have
1nly to draw the gate at any hour of the dav
1r pight, when the wheel moves off as freely
with the thermometer ut zero as it docs when
It fifty degrees above.
Your correspondent says {" With regard N
The theory laid down by Mr.. G. respecting the
of water in running state.
would like to know why it is we so often find
'ura water-w heels frozen fast TO the sheeting
when small leak is left at the shoot, and.
lso, why the congelaton Of ice on the wheels
whilst they are 10 motion, being continually {
washed by water several feet below the sur.
nee! II will say in reply, that the reason of G
he waters congealing from leak at the shoot q
very obvious. In the first place, the leak is !
enerally made as snail us possible, and the 5
'ater issues more in the form Of spray than d fe
oiid Jet. which, striking the wheel, rebounds a
galpst tae sheetIng 10 such snail PARTICLES as Ia
uently congeals. But I will venture 10 say !
rat "Miller," nor any other person. has moi Iti
zen water congealed upon the bucketsof a 4 n
ater-wheel while in motion, with, a full gate 1 n
water on il. Il is the spray that congeaIs n
pom the shafl-arms and all that portion az The =
heel not washed by the water from the cate 9,