Extending
weights and water transfer
The stationary
sector gear, A, rolls the small pinions which, by a rod connection with
the following edge of the hinged weights on the periphery of the wheel,
tilt the weights upward and outward, making a preponderance on that
side of the wheel. The same operation also opens and closes a series of
water bags on the inner rim of the wheel, each bag being connected to
the opposite bag by a tube, thus adding additional weight to the
right-hand side of the wheel.
(Subsection 943, from
p.377)
From: Gardner D. Hiscox, M.E., Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction (1927), Norman W. Henley Publ. Co.
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