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communicates motion to the piston by means [ piston-rod connected to a crank on the shaft 20
of its rod, causing the piston to slide or move of the wheel, and a shield constructed of pli-
back and forth in the cylinder and draw the able material connected to rods having rollers
water into thecylinder through the induction- and adapted to slide in stationary ways, sub-
5 pipes at each end, and force it out through the stantially as described.
eduction- pipes to the discharge - pipe, the 2. In a machine for irrigating, the float hayv- 25
valves in the pipes operating by the action of ing the standards in which the wheel is jour-
the piston. naled, inclined bars secured to said standards
It is evident that a machine constructed as above the wheel,inclined brace-bars extending
ro describedis very simple and cheap, and is thor- from the inner end of said inclined bars to the
oughly efficient in operation, possessing fea- float, and a guard or shield working in the in- 30
tures which would commend it to all desiring clined bars, substantially as and for the pur-
one for the purpose named. pose described.
Having thus fully described my invention, In testimony whereof I affix my signature in
m5 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by presence of two witnesses.
Letters Patent, is- BENAJAHI DOTTE OWEN.
1. In a machine for irrigating, the combina- Witnesses:
tion of a float provided with standards, a wa- D. C. BOLINGER,
ter-wheel journaled therein, a pump having a JNO. L. DYERu.