Millard County Chronicle | 1912-04-18 | Page 3 | Practical Plan for Pump

PRACTICAL PLAN FOR PUMP Iowa Man Describes Apparatus Which He Fsvor In Preference to Jack It I Reliable. O. O. I'.rewbaker of Warren county, Iowa, M'liiln Ic an llhintratkm niyl d-Bi'riptlon d-Bi'riptlon of Bh appuratus for puupliis whicli lie liken better tliun s Ja'k and after ui-lng It for three years pronounce pro-nounce It rellnble. Tho engine ran be Bet In a' building and the shaft can be run outside to ronner-t with the cog wheel. Should tho pump be several rods from the place where the engine is to be Instulled a counter shaft could be connected with the pitman. On the other end of the counter hft a quadrant con Id be fitted and a A Plao for Pumping. nuadrnnt put over the pump, both of which need an arm on one end that would tip up and down, then Joined by No. 4 wire. The quadrants cannot be shown very well In tho Illustration. To get the number ot strokes per minute; suppose you want .'0 strokes. Speed the engine to .TOO revolutions. If there Is a six-Inch six-Inch pulley on the engine, a ltMueh on the fOuift, a 3 Inch pinion and a 10-inch 10-inch (ok wheel )uii have Z'i mtukt-H Tho number of strokes ran easily b varied by speeding the engine higher or lower or by putting a larger or smaller w l.i il on the tslrift,