US182393A - Improvement in regulating windmills - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
- F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
- F04B49/00—Control, e.g. of pump delivery, or pump pressure of, or safety measures for, machines, pumps, or pumping installations, not otherwise provided for, or of interest apart from, groups F04B1/00 - F04B47/00
- F04B49/02—Stopping, starting, unloading or idling control
- F04B49/025—Stopping, starting, unloading or idling control by means of floats
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F03D—WIND MOTORS
- F03D9/00—Adaptations of wind motors for special use; Combinations of wind motors with apparatus driven thereby; Wind motors specially adapted for installation in particular locations
- F03D9/20—Wind motors characterised by the driven apparatus
- F03D9/28—Wind motors characterised by the driven apparatus the apparatus being a pump or a compressor
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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- This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for regulating'the operationof windmills, and is particularly designed for that class of windmills employed for pumping water, its object being to provide for automatically shifting the mill and pump-- the tank is exhausted or nearly exhausted, so as to automatically refill the tank; and
- a spring lever or pawl adapted .to engage in a ratchet or notch on one side of the rod, and hold the same, said lever being operated by means of a weighted float suspended in the water-tank in such position that. when the tank is full the float will be elevated and will allow the pawl to engage machinery out of gear until the water in the tank falls, allowing the weighted float, to release the pawl, and thus allow the machinery to automatically fall into gear, in order to start the pumps to supply the deficiency.
- Figure 1 represents an elevation of a windmill with my improvement applied.
- Fig. 2 represents an elevation of my improved apparatus, showing the parts in position to throw the machinery in gear, and
- Fig. 3 a similar view, showing the position of the parts when the machinery is thrown out of gear.
- the vertical arm of said angle-lever is secured to the upper end of the spring pawl or lever D, and to the horizontal arm is secured a weighted float, G, which is suspended in such position in the tank that, as long as there is sufficient water in the tank, it will buoy said weight up and allow the spiral spring to set the lever D against the shiftingrod A, so as to engage in the notch or ratchet thereon when said notch is depressedto throw the machinery out of gearing, and, when the water falls below a certain level, will allow the weight to overcome the resistance of the spring and release the shiftingrod, throwing the machinery into gear to start the pumps and refill the tank.
- the operation of my apparatus is as follows:
- Theshifting-rod A being connected in the customary manner to the shifting parts of the machinery of the windmill, when the tank is properly filled, the shifting-rod is depressed,,as usual, for throwing the machinery out of gear.
- the float being buoyed up by the body of water in the tank, allows the spring to throw the pawl into .the ratchet on the shifting-rod, and thus hold it until-the water is nearly or quite exhausted from the tank, when the weight is allowed to fall, releasing the lever from the ratchet, thus throwing the machinery into gear and starting the pumps.
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2 Sheets-Sheetl. D. TURNBULL.
REGULATING WIND-MILLS.- ,13z,393, Patented Sept. 19,1875.
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it consists in combination L the ratchet. and thus hold the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DAVID TURNBUDL, or WAVERLY, ILLINOIS.
IMPROVEMENT REGULAT'ING WINDMILLS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,393, dated September 19, 1876 application filed March 6, 1876.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DAVID TURNBULL, of Waverly, in the county of Morgan and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Regulating Windmills, pf which the following is a specification This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus for regulating'the operationof windmills, and is particularly designed for that class of windmills employed for pumping water, its object being to provide for automatically shifting the mill and pump-- the tank is exhausted or nearly exhausted, so as to automatically refill the tank; and
with the verticallysliding rod generally employed for throwing the windmill out of gear with the pumping machinery, of a spring lever or pawl, adapted .to engage in a ratchet or notch on one side of the rod, and hold the same, said lever being operated by means of a weighted float suspended in the water-tank in such position that. when the tank is full the float will be elevated and will allow the pawl to engage machinery out of gear until the water in the tank falls, allowing the weighted float, to release the pawl, and thus allow the machinery to automatically fall into gear, in order to start the pumps to supply the deficiency.
in the drawing, Figure 1 represents an elevation of a windmill with my improvement applied. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of my improved apparatus, showing the parts in position to throw the machinery in gear, and Fig. 3 a similar view, showing the position of the parts when the machinery is thrown out of gear.
The letter A represents a section of the shifting-rod common to most windmills, which is arranged to slide vertically in the supporting-frame B, secured in any convenient manner to the frame-work of the windmill. 0 represents a stationary bar of metal secured to the frame B and projectingabove the same at one side, andDa lever secured to the frame 13, on the opposite side of the shifting-rod'A to that on which the bar 0 is secured. Said lever also projects above the frame B, and between its end and that of the bar 0 is secured a spiral spring, which causes the lower end of the lever D to set against the side of the shift- 1ng machinery into gear when the water in beam, F, or other portion of the frame-work of the mill, in suitable position over the water-tank. The vertical arm of said angle-lever is secured to the upper end of the spring pawl or lever D, and to the horizontal arm is secured a weighted float, G, which is suspended in such position in the tank that, as long as there is sufficient water in the tank, it will buoy said weight up and allow the spiral spring to set the lever D against the shiftingrod A, so as to engage in the notch or ratchet thereon when said notch is depressedto throw the machinery out of gearing, and, when the water falls below a certain level, will allow the weight to overcome the resistance of the spring and release the shiftingrod, throwing the machinery into gear to start the pumps and refill the tank.
The operation of my apparatus is as follows: Theshifting-rod A being connected in the customary manner to the shifting parts of the machinery of the windmill, when the tank is properly filled, the shifting-rod is depressed,,as usual, for throwing the machinery out of gear. The float, being buoyed up by the body of water in the tank, allows the spring to throw the pawl into .the ratchet on the shifting-rod, and thus hold it until-the water is nearly or quite exhausted from the tank, when the weight is allowed to fall, releasing the lever from the ratchet, thus throwing the machinery into gear and starting the pumps.
What 1 claim,"and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
In combination with the ratcheted or notched shifting-rod, the spring lever or pawl,
and weighted float connected therewith and suspended in the water-tank, the whole arranged to operate substantially as described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set myhand in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.
DAVID TURNBULL. Witnesses:
JAMES W. MANSON,
J. H. OHALLEN.
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