US328338A

US328338A - Gas-governor

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Publication number: US328338A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1902-10-13

Description

(No Model.)

J. P. RBINBOKE.

GAS GOVERNOR. No. 328,338. Patented Oct. 13, 1885.

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JOHN P. REINEOKE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS-GOVERNOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,338, dated October 13, 18 5.

l Application filed January 8, 1885. Sciial No. 152,252. (No model.) i

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jol-IN P. REINECKE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Governors, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a vertical sectional View of my improved gas-governor. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same on line x x, and Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view of the valve.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to devices for regulating or governing the pressure of gas from a given supply, and is more particularly adapted to regulate the pressure of the gas supplied from natural gas-wells.

My improvement consists in the construe tion and combination of certain parts of a device or apparatus of that class, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes a tank or vessel of suitable size, preferably of cylindrical shape and made of sheet metal. Inserted into this tank is an inverted Vessel, B,l also by preference of cylindrical shape, and having a central aperture, b, in its top B.

Inside o f the outer tank, A, and concentric with its wall, is a wall or partition, C, thus forming with the tank or vessel A an annular space, D, adapted to contain a quantity of quicksilver, (shown at 13,) which forms a gastight seal for the inverted vessel B, the lower rim of which dips into the quicksilver, as clearly shown in the drawings. If the two parts or vessels A and B and the inside wall, C, are made of metal, these parts should be japanned or coated with some suitable composition to prevent amalgamating by direct contact with the Quicksilver.

AftiXed to the bottom of the outside vessel, A,is a cap, F, threaded on the inside, so that it may be connected with the feed-pipe from the gasometer or other source of gas-supply. This cap opens up into a pipe, G, arranged vertically in the vessel A, and is provided with an annular packing, H, of leather, vulcanized ber, or other suitable material,which is held in place by a packingring, I, itting inside of the cap, and adapted to be screwed tightly up against the packing, so as to hold it in place. 6o

J is a valve having a central screw-threaded recess or aperture for the attachment of the valvestem L. This valve is in the shape of a circular disk, and has a raised annular iange, K, beveled so as to form a sharp ridge, 7c, adapted to be seated upon the packing H. The valvestem L passes up through the cen ter of the tube G, between guides M M, so that it will have a true play up and down.

N is a lever havingits fulcrum in a bracket, 7o O, fastened upon tube G, and connected to the upper end of the valve-rod by the yoke P. The other end of the lever is connected by a short link, It, to another lever, S, which has its fulcrum in the upper end of a post, I, fixed in the bottom of the outer tank or vessel, A. rIhis lever S is connected at its free end to a short arm, U, the upper reduced end V of which rits into the central aperture, b, in the top of the inverted vessel B, to which 8o it is fastened by means of a cap, XV, which is screwed upon the threaded extension V of arm U.

X is the discharge pipe or outlet by which the gas is conducted from the governor to the 8 5 place of consumption.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, the operation of this apparatus will readily be understood.

The movable inverted tank B is weighted 9o by means of removable weights B2 to corre spend to the pressure which it is desired the gas to have at the place of consumption. As the gas enters the inlet F G and tills the inside tank, flowing out through the outlet X, g5l any excess of pressure will lift the inverted vessel B, and thereby-by the operation of the compound lever N B S, which, as we have seen, is connected with the tank'B by arm U- seat valve J upon the annular packing H, loo thus eftectually shutting off the supply of gas.

As the pressure thus becomes gradually reduced inside of the apparatus, the weights placed upon tank B, overcoming the inside pressure, will again lower the tank, and thus, by the operation of the compound lever, again open the valve for a fresh supply of gas. Thus it will be seen that the gas will always escape through the outlet X at a uniform pressure, which may he regulated by adjusting the weights upon ltank B. rIhe operation of the compound lever is such that it will seat the valve with considerable power when closed, and is so arranged that the pressure upon the gas may be regulated with the greatest nicety or accuracy.

Having thus described niyinvention,I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a gas-governor, the combination of the outside vessel having a iiuid seal, the invert- JOHN P. REINEGKE.

1Witnesses:

Louis BAGGER, AUGUST PETERSON.