US Patent: 989,521
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| Generator Driver
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Patentee:
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| Harry C. Clay (exact or similar names) - Columbus, Bartholomew County, IN |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Oct. 19, 1910 |
| Granted: |
Apr. 11, 1911 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Reeves & Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
The object of my invention is to provide a driving connection between a power shaft and the magneto or other electric generator of such character that, irrespective of the speed of movement of the power shaft the rotor of the generator may be given, at the proper sparking time, a speed sufficient for adequate current production, the arrangement being such that, when the power shaft reaches a. normal speed, the speed increasing function of the driving connection will be automatically eliminated.
Claim:
The combination of a magneto having a driven shaft, an independent driving shaft. a spring connecting said two shafts whereby the driving force is yieldingly applied from the driving shaft to the driven shaft, a radially projecting finger attached to the driven shaft, a radially projecting finger attached to the (driving shaft and overlapping the finger on the driven shaft, a spring abutment, between the two fingers, a swinging governor arm carried by the driven shaft linger, a spring for normally holding said governor arm in one position, said spring being yieldable under the centrifugal action of the governor arm, a cane carried by the driving shaft finger and adapted to engage the governor arm and swing the same In the direction of movement produced by centrifugal action of said arm, and a fixed stop arranged in the circumferential path of movement of the governor when in the position produced by the spring attached to said governor arm. |
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