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The pulleys are so designed that drag cords knotted 

 to and hanging from the moving belt rope will pass 

 them without any trouble. Then to the rope are fas- 

 tened a lot of boxes, or buckets, which perform double 

 duty in carrying water and generating power. They 

 would be full going uphill, their weight being then sus- 

 tained by two wheels running on the ground, and the 

 belt rope merely hauling them. A bit of plank above 

 the reservoir would come in contact with a valve in the 

 bottom of each box as it arrives, thus discharging the 

 contents, so that a procession of empty boxes would be 

 going down the slope. These would nearly overcome 

 the weight of the 

 boxes, but not the 

 water going up. Of 

 course, there is some 

 loss through friction. 

 Mr. Paddock aims to 

 get enough power 

 for hauling, from 

 the pull of the 

 stream upon those 

 boxes which are float- 

 ing in the water ; and if the length of the stream section 

 of the belt rope is great enough in proportion to the 

 climb up the hill, the plan ought to work. He would 

 thus have an automatic machine, working something 

 like a grain elevator. 



W. W. Allen of Centerville, South Dakota, has 

 rigged up a contrivance for elevating water from a river 

 to irrigate his fields. He has had a lot of galvanized 

 iron buckets made, holding about five gallons each, 

 which are attached to a large belt running over pulleys, 

 it being operated by a small horse power. He has 

 ditches running from the river so that he can run the 

 water very readily over his entire field. 



FIG. 87. BUCKET ELEVATOR. 



