US358623A

US358623A - Victoe popp

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Publication number: US358623A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 1904-03-01

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V. POPP. DEVICE FOR WINDING UP OOUNTERWBIGHTS. No. 358,623.

Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

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VICTOR POPP, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

I, DEVICE FOR WNNDING UP COUNTER-WEIGHTS.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,623, dated March 1, 1887.

Application tiled September 29,1886. Serial No. 214,844.

(No model.) Patented in France January 30, 1886, No.173,863; in

Belgium June 22, 1886, No. 73,572, and in England June 119, 1886, No, 8,530.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VICTOR POPP, of the city of Paris, France, have invented a new and useful Device for Automatically \Vinding up Gounter-VVeights by Means of Fluid,Gas,or other Pressure, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists of a system of automatically winding up counter-weights for transmitting or accumulating power, based 011 the employment of a fluid, liquid, vapor, or gas under a constant or variable pressure acting on the elements, which I shall describe farther on, and which I have shown on the appended drawings, but solely as an illustration.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a complete View of my system of automatically winding up counter-weights as applied to the motive part of a Hughes telegraph, the upper wheel being the driving-wheel of the mechanism of said Hughes telegraph. Fig. 2 is a detail drawing, showing a front elevation, in partial section, of the devices for distributing the compressed fluid.

In the figures the same letters refer to the same parts.

My apparatus comprises two principal parts: first, a cylinder, A, in which works a piston, B, which is acted upon on one side only by the pressure of the fluid, the other side being open to the atmosphere; second, a three-way cock lt, for distributing the compressed fluid to the cylinderA and for exhausting the same fluid when the end of it has acted on the piston B. The handle of the cock is furnished with a hollow crossbar, T, which is filled to about one-third of its interior volume with mercury. This crossbar opens or closes the cock at the desired moment. This being premised, the operation of the apparatus is as follows:

The weight P, acting on the elements which it has to set in motion, descends under the in fluence of its own weight. The two parts 0 C of the chain descend. with it, while the parts 1) D of the same chain ascend, lifting the counter-weight E, the sheave F, and the block G, fixed onthat sheave. This block G, in the form of an extended ring, inoloses one of the ends of the cross-bar T. Vhen the weight P has nearly arrived at the ends of its course, the block G in its upward movement lifts the crossbar T. The mercury inside is gradually displaced by the lifting of the cross-bar, and

when the latter has reached a point a little beyond the horizontal it (the cross-bar) is operated by the weight of the mercury, which has all gone over to the other end of the cross bar. At this momentthe cock is opened to its whole extent. The fluid under pressure, supplied through the pipe M, connecting with a receiver for compressed air or other compressed fluid,water, steam, &c., or with a compressing pump, passes through the pipe N into the cyl inder A and acts on the piston B, forcing it to the other end of the cylinder. By means of the rod H and a chain, I, the motion of the piston is transmitted to a disk, 0, keyed on the shaft which carries the return-sheave of the parts 0 and D of the chain supporting the weight P. The weight is thus brought back (wound up) into its normal position; but while the weight P is being wound up the block G descends, and when the weight 1? is at the end of its course pulls the cross-bar T of the cock back in the opposite direction to its first movement. The mercury again exerts its tilting action and places the cross-bar in the position shown in dotted lines on the drawings, Fig. 2. At this moment theinlet-opening of the cock is closed and the escape-pipe L is put in communication with the cylinder A, so as to afford an outlet for the fluid after it has acted on the piston. I

When the weight P has gone down again, the same operations are repeated, so that the winding up of the weight takes place automatically and alternately.

V is a spring serving to bring back the piston to the front end of the cylinder. This spring may be of any shape, and may be replaced either by the admission of the fluid to the other side of the piston or by the employmentof another cylinder with its piston.

The winding up of the weight by means of electricity may be effected by changing the cock B into a commutator, which, according to the difl'erent positions it may take, Fig. 2, would establish or break an electrical circuit.

I claim 1. The combination of the cylinder provided with a piston, conduits N and L, the threeway cock having the hollow cross-bar, the

, block G, the wheel or disk F, the chain 0 D, the pulleys over which said chain works, and 5 the counter-weight P, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The cock R, in combination with a hollow cross-bar, T, filled about one-third with a heavyliquid, the tilting movement of this crossro bar operating this cock, as described and illus trated.

3. The combination of the cylinder A, provided with a piston, B, conduits Nand L, the three-way cock B, having a hollow crossbar,

T, the block G, the wheel or disk F, the chain 1 G D, the counter-Weight P, a number of pulleys or wheels, and a spring connected to the piston through its piston-rod and a chain passed over one of\said pulleys, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 20

The foregoing specification of my method of winding up automatically counter-weights for transmitting or accumulating power signed by me this 10th day of September, 1886.

VICTOR POPP.

.Witnesses:

ROBT. M. HooPER, ALBERT MOREAU.