US Patent: 1,036,059
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| Reversible Variable-Cut-Off Valve-Gear
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Patentee:
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| Abner D. Baker (exact or similar names) - Swanton, Fulton County, OH |
| Manufacturer: |
| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Sep. 05, 1911 |
| Granted: |
Aug. 20, 1912 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for A.D. Baker Company
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Description: |
| Claim:
In a reversible variable cutoff valve gear for locomotives, the combination with the main frame, and the cross head and valve stem of each engine, of a valve gear for each engine comprising a fixed support, a movable support mounted on the fixed support, at radius rocker having a rocker pivot journaled on the movable support and adjustable thereby through an arc, a bell crank journaled on the fixed support, a link connected to one arm of the bell crank and to the radius rocker at a radius from its rocker pivot equal to the radius of the arc of adjustment of the rocker pivot, and means to jointly adjust the movable supports in parallel positions, means connecting the link rod of each gear to the cross head of the other engine, and adapting said cross head to oscillate the radius rocker and bell crank, and means connecting the other arm of the bell crank with the valve stem and with the cross head of its own engine, and adapting the bell crank and cross head of each engine to both jointly and severally reciprocate the valve of the engine. |
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