meer bated MP Gi eee, OT CTT Tel oy Ae ve ve Ms r lp LOL ou spec yelp, Pll Seo gk Jew uN AUQUTOONNY 10 LNOSOVAEC onupeon20,7 TO ALL . 2 SAY OUCH Be it inom tiat I SIZOLA 7:SL4 en engineer re- siding ot The waldorf Astoria, corner Fifth Avenue and Thirty Fourth Street, in the Sorough of Nennattan, City and Staze of Tew York, United States of America, having invented certain new and useful improvcrents in’ FLUID PROPULSION, do hereby declere the following is a full, oription of the sar Practicn1 application of rechenical power based on the use of a fluid as vesicle of cnergy it has n derorstrated tint, in order to attain the aighect econony, the ckanzes in velocity ané direction of movo- sof the fluid should be ac (raduel as possible. In ent force of such erperacvus nore o> less sudden shocks and vibrations, are wnevoidable. Besides the explojment of the usu=1 devices for ‘=parzing 20, or deriving encrgy from a fluid, oc pistons, pad yanes and biades, necessarily introduces nuierous a feots and linitations and adés to the cozplication, cost of production and nainterance of tae cachin ‘The object of ny invextion 1s to overcone the: eZicioncies and to offect the trananiscion and trans. fornation of rechanictl energy throuca the exency of fluids ine nore verfect manner, end by moord cimvler ané more econonicel than ti.ore heretofore orployed. I accomplish this by ccusing the propelled or Propelling fluid to move in natural paths or streom lines of least recistcnce, free from constraint and bance such ss ocossioned by vanes or kindred de. and to chance its velocity and direction of move. nent by inperceptible degrees, tins avoiding the loes due to sudden veriations while the fluid is reoviving or imparting energy. It is well Imom tat a fluid poccesses, axong others, tuo salient prorerties; adiecion and viscosity.Owing to these @ body propetied encounters a peculiar impedi: *skin resistance rough such @ neti nt known us *lateral™ cr which is two-fold; one arising from the shock 3f fluid egainst the asperities of the solid sustance, the cther from internal forces oppos~ ing molecular separation. As en inevitable consequence a certain ancunt of the fluid is drayzed along by the moving body. Conversely, if the tody e placed ina fluid in motion, for the saze reasons, i. is impelled in the direction of roverent. Tnese effects, in themselves, are of daily ob- servation, but I celieve trat I an the Zirst to apply ther in a practical and economical marser of fluid pro- pulsion. The nature of sy discovery und the principles of construction. of tre apparatus ¥7.ich I have designed for carrying it out, I sill now prezeed to describe by reference to the accorpanying drawings which illu trate an operative and efficient embodiment of the sane. Vig. 1 48 a partial end view, and Pig. 2 a ver- tical cross section cf a pusp or cexpressor, which Fics. 3 and 4 represent, resyectively, in corresponding views, a rotary engine or turtine, bot’. machines being ccn— structed and adapted to %e operated in accordance with my invention. Pigs. 1 and 2 szow « runner composed of a plu- rality of flat rigid disks 1 of @ suitable diameter, keyed to a shaft 2 and held in position by a threaded nut 5, a shoulder 4 and washers 5 of tne requisite thickness. Each disk has a number of central openings 6, the solid portions be:ween whizh form spokes 7 pre- ferably curved, as shown, for the purpose of reducing the loss of energy due to the irpact of tne fluid. ‘This runner is mounted in a two-part volute cas- ing 8 having stuffing boxes 9 and inlets 10 leading to its central portion. In addition a gradually widening and rounding outlet 21 is provided fcrred with a flange for connection to a pipe as usual. The casing 8 rests upon a dase 12 shown only in par: and supporting the earings for the shaft 2, which being of ordinary con- struction are omitted from the drawings ‘An understanding of the principle embodied in this device will be gained from the following uescrip- tion of its mode of operation. Power being applied to the siaft and the runser set in rotation in the direction of the solid arrow, the fluid by reason of ite properties of adzererce and vis- cosity, upon entering through the inlets 10 and conine dn contact with the disks 1 is taken hold of ty the same and subjected to two forces, one acting tangentially in the direction of rotation, and the other radially out~ ward. The combined effect of these tangential and cen~ trifugal forces is to propel the fluid with continuous~ ly increasing velocity in a spiral path until it reach- the outlet 11 from which it is ejected. This spira2 2