Apparatus for Operating Dynamos by Tidal and other like Water Power.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1889-Accepted. 28th Sept.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Operating Dynamos by Tidal and other like Water
Power.
I, SERGIUS ORLOFF, of Rue Petropavlov-skaia, Maison Markoff, Kazan, Russia,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to utilize the rise and fall of tides or the flow of
streams to operate Dynamos for producing or generating electricity for use on land
for lighting, manufacturing, or other purposes.
According to my Invention I arrange a series of floats or paddles on a horizontal
shaft supported by beams of timber which have a rising and falling action as the tide
rises and falls, the floats or paddles being sufficiently immersed to be driven by the
water.
The main supporting beams may be a fixture in a tide way and the parts to which
the floats or paddles are affixed may be hinged thereto, or they may be held between
uprights as guides with a free up and down action to suit the rise and fall of the tide.
I arrange reversing gear to the shaft so that the Dynamo can always run in the
same direction.
Sufficient slack in the cable leading from the Dynamo to shore will permit of the
required change of position, or differences of level.
Multiplying gear can be arranged between the shaft and the Dynamo to determine
the speed of rotation.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Sergius Orloff.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Operating Dynamos by Tidal and other like Water
Power.
I SERGIUS ORLOFF of Rue Petropavlov-skaïa, Maison Markoff, Kazan, Russia,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 utilize the rise and fall of tides or the flow of
streams to operate dynamos for producing or generating electricity for use on land for
lighting manufacturing or other purposes.
According to my invention I arrange a series of floats or paddles on a horizontal
shaft supported by beams of timber which have a rising and falling action as the tide
rises and falls the floats or paddles being sufficiently immersed to be driven by the
water.
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The main supporting beams may be a fixture in a tide way and the parts to which
the floats or paddles are affixed may be binged thereto or they may be held between
uprights as guides with a free up and down action to suit the rise and fall of the tide.
I arrange reversing gear to the shaft so that the dynamo can always run in the
same direction sufficient slack in the cable leading from Dynamo to shore will permit
of the required change of position or differences of level.
Multiplying gear can be arranged between the shaft and the Dynamo to determine
the speed of rotation.
My invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings in which at
Figure 1 I show how my paddle of say four wings or blades is built up."

page_text: To the shaft A I attach iron straps B at equal distances round the circumference
and between these iron straps B I arrange boards C after the fashion shown at
Figure 2. I secure the boards to the straps by bolts and nuts and I connect each
pair of wings or blades by stay bars D, D, so that all parts of the paddle are rigid one
with the other.
The shaft to which these blades are attached forms the main shaft and its ends are
carried in bearings E on two rising and falling dummies, one at each end of the wheel,
but one only is shown in the drawings Figures 3 and 4.
This dummy or barge F is held in position within stone or brick piers or between
baulks of timber G within which it is free to rise and fall with the tide, if the
apparatus be fitted in a tideway so that the paddle by which motion to the dynamo
at H dips always to the same extent, the paddle being driven round by the pressure of
the flowing water.
On the end of the shaft A is a mitre wheel I to gear into one or other of the
wheels J, K, according to the direction in which the paddle is turned for giving the
same direction of rotation to the dynamo H, the wheel J or K giving motion by
the wheel L on a short shaft to a spur wheel M which through spur pinion N on a
separate shaft and a wheel P thereon gives motion to the dynamo shaft Q the speed of
rotation of the dynamo being necessarilly greater than that obtained by the paddle.
The dynamo has the ordinary wires attached for conveying the electric current to
the shore for any useful purpose such as Lighting Driving Machinery, or mechanism
or for other purposes to which electric current can be applied.
The throwing in and out of gear of the wheels J K may be effected by an attendant
moving the clutch lever R or other means may be adopted for the purpose by which
the shifting of said wheels may take place automatically.
my said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Building up a water wheel of wooden boards, iron straps, and distancing bars
as represented at Figuro 1 of the annexed drawings and connecting its centre
shaft to mechanism for driving a dynamo the whole being carried by a floating
body held within piers and capable of rising and falling in order to keep the
paddle always immersed to the same depth so that the power of flowing waters
can be utilized in the manner and by the apparatus shown at Figures 3 and 4 of
the annexed drawings.
Dated this 25th day of July 1889
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said S. Orloff.