US Patent: 912,893
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| Reversing Gear for Engines
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Patentee:
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| Alonzo Runnion (exact or similar names) - Spencer, Roane County, WV |
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| 91/13 |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Sep. 10, 1907 |
| Granted: |
Feb. 16, 1909 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
My said invention consists in certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of parts of reversing gear for steam engines, whereby such a gear is provided which is simple and inexpensive in its construction and efficient and positive in operation.
Claim:
In an engine reversing mechanism, the combination, with the cylinder and steam chest, of a sliding reversing plate mounted over the ports leading from said steam chest 1i into said cylinder, said reversing plate having t ;wo sets of ports, one set formed to lead directly through said plate into the ports in the side of the cylinder at each end thereof and the other set of ports being formed to lead from each end of the steam chest into the ports through the side of the cylinder at the opposite ends of the steam chest, a slide valve mounted on said reversing plate, -and means for operating said plate and valve 1: comprising a connecting rod attached to one adapted to slide through a sleeve attached to the other. |
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