US Patent: 204,924
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| Governor
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Patentees:
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| Joseph W. Thompson (exact or similar names) - Salem, Columbiana County, OH |
| Nathan Hunt (exact or similar names) - Salem, Columbiana County, OH |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
May 10, 1878 |
| Granted: |
Jun. 18, 1878 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Buckeye Engine Co.
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Description: |
| Our invention relates to that class of centrifugal governors in which the balls or weights rotate with and upon the main or driving shaft of the engine, and operate, by variations of angular velocity, to vary the position of an eccentric thereon relatively to the crank, examples of which class will be found in the Letters Patent of Jacob D. Custer, No. 1,179, dated June 21, 1839, and in Letters Patent No. 162,715, granted to Joseph' W. Thompson and the Buckeye Engine Company, (as his assignee,) under date of April 27, 1875.
Abstract:
The improvements herein claimed are intended for application to the governor shown in the patent last above stated and consist, first, in combining, with the pivoted weight-arms, and the links by which they are connected to the movable eccentric, ball-and-socket joints and, second, in combining, with the pivoted weight-arms, stop-pins working in slots in the supporting-case between and equidistant from the pins, which form the pivots of the weight-arms on the one side, and from similar pins on the other side, which latter, when the motion of rotation is in the direction shown by the arrows, form the points of attachment for the springs, said stop-pins abutting at either extremity of the traverse of the arms against spring-cushions secured in the ends of said slots.
Claim:
The combination, with a steam-engine governor adapted to be mounted upon the driving-shaft, of a loose eccentric fitting upon the shaft and connected to the weight-arms of the governor by links, united with said arms by ball-and-socket joints. |
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