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 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CHARLES, MYERS, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
MATTHEW WELLS, OF SAME PLACE.
SCREW-PROPELLER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,323, dated January 19, 1892.
Application filed July 14, 1891, Serial No. 399,449. (No model.) Patented in England January 13, 1891, No. 670,

To all, whom it may concern: is practically parallel to the face of the hub 45
Be it known that I, CHARLES MYERS, de C, so as not to overhang it at all; and I make
signer, a subject of the Queen of Great Brit the back arm B of the looped blade with the
ain, residing at Manchester, in the county of rear edge b approximately radial to the cen
5 Lancaster, England, have invented certain ter of the boss or hub C and, as seen in side
new and useful Improvements in Screw-Pro elevation, overhanging or extending beyond 5o
pellers, (for which I have obtained Letters the vertical face of the boss to a considerable
Patent in Great Britain under No. 670, dated degree, the pitch of the flat part of the blade
January 13, 1891) of which the following is a being increased toward b. The front arm. A
Io specification. of the looped blade is thus made more erect
This invention relates to improvements in than the back or following arm B and a bet- 55
the screw-propeller formed with flat looped ter grip of the water is obtained at the point
blades helically disposed and is designed with of contact with the blade and I consider that
the object of obtaining greater speed there a considerable gain in speed will result.
I5 from or power of driving the vessel faster. What I claim as my invention, and desire
It consists, essentially, in constructing the to protect by Letters Patent, is- 6o
front or forward arm of each looped blade 1. A screw-propeller blade of the form of a
with the striking-edge approximately straight flat severed loop, constructed with the strik
and tangential to the boss at the point of con ing-edge of the front or forward arm of the
2O tact with it and in a plane parallel or ap loop approximately tangential to the hub or
proximately parallel with the face of the boss, boss at its point of contact therewith and par- 65
and the back arm of each looped blade with allel to the face of the boss and with the rear
the rear edge radial or approximately radial edge of the other arm of the loop approxi
to the center of the boss and inclined to the mately radial to the center of the boss and
25 face of the boss, so as to overhang or extend inclined at a considerable degree to and over
to a considerable degree beyond it, the pitch hanging its vertical face, substantially as de- 7o
of the screw being increased toward the back, scribed and shown.
so as to be greater than that nearer to the 2. A flat-looped screw-propeller blade pro
front or forward edge. It will be fully de vided at one side with an arm tangential to
3o scribed with reference to the accompanying the boSS and parallel with the face thereof
drawings, in which and at the other side with an arm radial with 75
Figure 1 is an elevation; Fig. 2, a plan; the center of the boss and inclined to the face
Fig. 3, a sectional elevation; Fig. 4, an ex thereof and with the top vertical flat surface
panded view of one blade, and Fig. 5 an ele increasing in pitch from the front to the back,
35 vation of a single blade with base or disk for substantially as described.
connecting it to the boss. In testimony whereof I have signed my 8o
Instead of making each blade symmetrical name to this specification, in the presence of
with the two arms A and B thereof in the two subscribing witnesses, this 3d day of July,
same relative position to the boss C, I make 1891.
4o the front arm A of the flat loop with the CHARLES MYERS.
striking-edge C. approximately straight and
in a plane approximately tangential to the Witnesses:
boss or hub C at the point where it touches I. OWDEN OBRIEN,
it, and in side elevation this striking-edge a CHAS. OVENDALE.