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Show ITER POWER W1TH0UTWHEELS I Salt Laker Applies New Tlieorj in Hydraulic Lever ; Motors. PRACTICAL APPLICATION SHOWS THAT IT PANS Crude Machine That Does Ex-actly Ex-actly What Its Builder Says It .Will Do. Near whore Parley's creok croaaex. J South rourth East street, to bo esact at J-19'Jr South Ifourth East, lives P. Peterson. Ho has a carpenter shop on the west side of his property, and on tho top of this building is ' erected a jH sign which reads: i"M 'i 1 : i i-i-m- :-i":-i-K"i"i-H"i-H 4 Hydraulic Lever Motors. Water i IH Power Without Wheels. jH t.T..rn..........trT.i...lli...iliiii-u t'1"!"'' A visit to this? workshop shows a crudo machine that doos exactly what the sign says, water power without wheels. It is a practical application H of a theory and a theory that works. Outsido.of the shop is a model of the 1 appliance that looks like a toy machinn IH and in fact the children in the neigh- B borhood call it their toy and thoy will fa-it' for hours and watch the simple piec4H H of mechanism as the levers rifio and fall with the precision of a clock. The machine, according to Mr. Po. erson, is designed to produce power fot jH everything where power is needed and jH it will run in low fall or high fall, in small streams or in large ones, and from the waves of the sea. With a thrcc-foofc fall of water a great power plant could be installed. Simple in Construction, IH The muchino is simple in construe-tion. construe-tion. in fact there is practically no mcchauisn about it and to manufact'- jH uro it would not necessitate a great factory for it can be constructed by jH most every mechanic. There is a fly- JH wheel, a crank shaft, an eccentric rod .IH and levers, upon one end of which are 'jH miniature buckets into which the water iH falls and through which it is returned to tho stream from which it is taken. These levers work on a ball bearing joint at one end, the other is attached to the eccentric rods. Over the end of these levers upon H which tho miniature .buckets are placed tiH is a box and in this box are valves IH which aro attached to the crank shaft. into this box the water is admitted and a half turn of the balance wheel given by hand starts the machine. As the valves raise tho water falls into tho bucket at the end of the lever and the rise and fall of these valves, letting the water drop, keeps the levers in motion. It is, as said, a most simple contrivance. Builds Temporary Dam. To run his large machine Mr. Peter-son Peter-son has constructed a temporary dam , and from this a small stream carrying j about three inches of water is diverted into a flume or race and after passing through tho machine drops V.acka into tho stream again so that there is no waste to tho water. Mr. Peterson is a native of Swc- f H den, coming from the northern country j to Utah thirty-two ycaTS ago. He iB . H carpenter by trade and ho settled in Gunnison eight years ago. Uo moved to Salt Lake and plied his vocation here.. j Six years ago ho bogan to study tho f theory of golting water power without whecis and a few weeks ago ho sue- ceeded in developing the machine do- t jH Not Perpetual Motion. "It is not perpetual motion we have. I nevor declared that it was," said Mr. Peterson to The Tribuno on Wednesday. "but it is the practical application of a theory that pans. T have made ap-plication ap-plication for a patent. I am nst like the ma.iority of inventors without, eapi-lal eapi-lal to develop what; 1 have in this ma-chine: ma-chine: AH I ask is that investigation be made into the mcriis of my machine and I am confident of the result. You can sec how the machine works. Jr. runs this saw and it lifts this," point-ing point-ing to a weight, "It is practical and 1 H it speaks for itself. I will be glad to have pooplo call and sco the machine at work " |