WATER-MOTOR, THE. 



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ards to George Washington, Commander-in- 

 Chief of the combined forces of America and 

 France ; to the Comte de Rochambeau, com- 

 manding the French troopa ; and to the Comte 

 de Grasse, commanding the French fleet." 



West Side. " The treaty concluded February 

 6, 1778, between the United States of America 

 and Louis XVI, King of France, declares the 

 essential and direct end of the present defen- 

 sive alliance is to maintain effectually the lib- 

 erty, sovereignty, and independence, absolute 

 and unlimited, of the said United States as well 

 in matters of government as of commerce." 



East Side. "The provisional articles of 

 peace concluded November 30, 1782, and the 

 definitive treaty of peace concluded September 

 3, 1783, between the United States and George 

 III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, declare : 

 His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said 

 United States viz., New Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence 

 Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- 

 sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir- 

 ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 

 Georgia to be free, sovereign, and independ- 

 ent States." 



WATER-MOTOR, THE. This motor is 

 formed by incasing a water-wheel in a round 

 cast-iron shell or frame the ten-inch or 

 sewing-machine size being about twelve inches 

 in diameter, and two inches deep, open at the 

 bottom. It can be attached to the wall by a 

 bracket, or placed in the ordinary set bowl, 

 and connecting directly with the faucet for the 

 supply of water, and allowing the waste to 

 pass off through the usual pipes. The water- 

 wheel is made by constructing two sheet-metal 

 disks struck up convex on their ontsides, the 

 inner or concave edges being soldered together, 

 forming a strong and durable wheel or disk. 

 On the periphery of this wheel is a series of 

 cnps or buckets about one inch apart the 

 diameter of the wheel outside of the buckets 

 being about ten inches, and the thickness at 



the center about two inches, tapering at the 

 buckets to about one sixteenth of an inch. 

 The wheel is hung by a spindle through its 

 center, running up through bearings in the 

 cast-iron shell. On the upper end of this 

 spindle the driving-pulley is attached, which 

 is about four inches in diameter. The water- 

 wheel and the driving-pulley work horizontally 

 and the spindle vertically. A sheet-metal pan, 

 with an opening in the center for attaching 

 the waste-pipe, is made to fit over the lower 

 side of the cast-iron shell, for the purpose ot 

 catching the waste-water and delivering it to 

 the waste-pipe. If the motor is used in a sink 

 or on a shelf, it is set in a cast-iron ring with 

 three legs (see illustration). On the inside of 

 the shell there is attached a circular feed-pipe 

 extending one half way around the shell. At 



either end of this pipe are placed small nozzles, 

 which form openings for streams of water 

 about T 3-jj of an inch in diameter. The noz- 

 zles are so set that the little jet of water strikes 

 the buckets in opposite directions, thereby re- 

 ducing the friction on the driving-shaft to a 

 minimum. At the middle way of this circular 

 pipe is attached a T, one limb of which comes 

 up through the shell at the top. To that are 

 attached the pipe connections from the water- 

 pipes or faucet. It is constructed by tightly 

 fitting two pulleys, about the same size as the 

 driving-pulley one a groove-pulley, the other 

 a rubber friction-pulley on either end of a 

 three-eighths inch shaft about two and one half 



inches long, this shaft being set transversely 

 and horizontally into an elbow-lever. This 

 lever is hinged at the elbow into a bracket, the 

 pulley end being vertical, and the lever end 

 horizontal. This bracket is of triangular form, 

 cast with ears to receive the pulley -lever at the 

 hinge. This counter-shaft bracket is fastened 

 to the table of the sewing-machine, in such a 

 manner that the rubber friction-pulley rests 

 against the rear edge of the fly-wheel of the 

 sewing-machine; then, by pressing down and 

 raising the lever, the sewing-machine is started 

 and stopped, the pulleys constantly running by 

 belt from the motor. There are five sizes of 

 these motors 8, 10, 15, 24, and 30 inch 



