An Improved Combined Water-motor and Fan.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Mar., 1895-Accepted 13th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Water-motor and Fan.
I, WILLIAM HENRY RUCKER, of Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S.A., Inventor, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a device which is adapted to be placed
upon tables for use as a fly-fan and tray, so that articles placed upon the tray will
be subjected to the draft caused by the rotation of the fan, and the cooling influence
of the medium used for operating the fan.
This invention comprises a support or tray which is mounted above a water
receptacle adapted to rest upon a table. A tube passes centrally through the tray
and receptacle and has curved branch-pipes or nozzles at right-angles thereto at a
point above the tray. A globe encircles the nozzles and its upper half has blades
radially-arranged on its inner surface in such manner that the impact of water
issuing from the nozzles rotate the globe. Vanes or blades, to agitate the air,
extend radially from the outer face of the globe, and from a spindle extending from
the top thereof.
When the water is forced through the tube and nozzles the globe and vanes are
rotated and the water from the globe escapes through apertures in the globe and
upper tray into the lower tray from whence it escapes through a tube of larger
diameter than and surrounding the inlet tuke.
Dated thin 9th 1ov of Tuna 1001
W. H. MUNNS,
Applicant's Agent.
I, WILLIAM HENRY RUCKER, of Hillsboro, Oregon, U.S.A., Inventor, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of this invention is to provide a device which is adapted to be placed
upon tables for use as a fly-fan and tray, so that articles placed upon the tray will
be subjected to the draft caused by the rotation of the fan and the cooling influence
of the medium used for operating the fan.
The invention consists in the combination of a support or tray mounted above a
water receptacle through which tray and water receptacle passes a tube for
conveying fluid under pressure to arms located within a globe, one part of the globe
having blades against which the fluid strikes so as to rotate the same, as well as
the vanes and fans connected thereto, for creating a draft or agitating the
surrounding air.
The invention further consists in the construction and combination of the parts,
as will be fully hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims,

page_text: In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this Specification,
Figure 1 is a sectional view, Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views looking into the two
parts of the globe.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the tray, and
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the fan.
A designates a table which is provided with an aperture for the passage of a
waste-pipe B, and through this waste-pipe passes the water or fluid pressure
supply-pipe C. Upon the table rests a receptacle D, which is adapted to catch
the waste-water and convey it to the pipe B, and at its outer edge this receptacle
supports rollers d upon which a tray E rests, said tray having an upturned edge and
depressions e with central perforations e¹.
Surrounding the pipe C above the water receptacle D is a support F, the lower
end of which is provided with openings which lead from the water receptacle to the
waste pipe B, and at the upper end of this support is attached the lower half of
the globe G. The supply pipe C is provided within the globe with a fourway
connection C', to the Interal openings in which are connected arins c which are
gradually reduced or taper to their outer ends, said ends being bent so as to direct
the fluid under pressure against the blades glattached to the inner side of the upper
half of the globe, the blades being curved as shown in Fig. 2. To the upper
opening in the connection C₁ is connected a tube C the upper end of which
conical and provided with small openings through which the water can pass to
lubricate the bearing at this point, which bearing sustains the weight of the rotary
portion of the device.
HH designate fans or vanes which are of suitable shape and are connected to a
tube h, said tube being connected to the upper part of the upper half of the sphere
or globe G, so that it will turn therewith. Within the tube is secured a tube /¹
which fits over the tube C2, and the upper part of this tube h¹ is threaded for the
reception of a rod I the upper end of which carries a fan I¹ while its lower end
forms a bearing which rests upon the conical end of the tube C. The upper half
of the sphere or globe G, the vanes H, and the fan I' are all connected rigidly to
each other and are supported by the tube C³, the lower edge of the upper half of
the globe lying within a flange at the upper edge of the lower half.
It is obvious that when water is fed into the pipe C under pressure the upper
conical end of the tube C will be kept cool and moist, and that the water will exert
a slight lifting tendency upon the rotary parts of the device so that it will revolve
with but little friction."
In operation the pipe C is connected with a suitable fluid pressure supply,
preferably water, which is forced out of the bent ends of the arms c and impinges
against the blades on the inner side of the upper half of the globe and causes a
rotation thereof and of the parts connected rigidly thereto which not only serve as
a fan but induce a draft upon provisions or articles placed upon the tray. The
fluid after striking against the blades of the upper half of the globe will fall into
the lower half and pass through the openings in the lower part thereof to the
tray E from which it is discharged into the water receptacle D and from there into
the waste pipe B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :
(1) A motor for fans comprising two suitably supported hemispheres, a stationary
supply pipe and support having arms for the discharge of fluid under pressure, the
upper hemisphere having blades against which the fluid strikes to impart a rotary
movement to said hemisphere, and fans connected to said rotary hemisphere
substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.
(2) In combination with a water receptacle connected with a waste pipe, a
stationary hemisphere which encloses arms connected with a water supply, a
rotary hemisphere suitably supported and actuated by the water which is forced

page_text: under pressure out of the ends of the arms carried by the supply pipe, and fans
connected to the rotary hemisphere substantially as shown and for the purpose
set forth.
(3) In a rotary fan, the combination, of a water receptacle connected with a
waste pipe, a hemisphere having discharge openings, a supply pipe having arms e
and an upwardly projecting tube C, a hemisphere having inwardly projecting
blades, a rod I which engages with a tube which supports the hemisphere having
the blades and into which the pipe C passes, and vanes connected to the upper
hemisphere substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.
(4) In combination with a water supply pipe having arms c c and a supporting
spindle C, of a tube adapted to fit over the spindle C², vanes H attached to the
tube, and a hemisphere with inwardly projecting blades, substantially as shown and
for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 0th day of March 1905
W. H. MUNNS,
Applicant's Agent.