US399887A

US399887A - Windmill

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Publication number: US399887A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-03-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-03-19

Description

(No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

G. W. HAINES.

WINDMILL.

Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

nHmnwa w I WITNESSES BY JaM/M'v ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PhoQo-Lilhognphnr. Washington. DJC.

2 Sheets-Sheet. 2.

(No Model.)

G. W. HAINES.

WIN DMILL.

Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

INVENTOR w BY Mum/w WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PhobLilhogn-npher, Washington. D: C

GEORGE \V. HAINES, OFADIN, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed August 19, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE llAINES, of Adin, in the county of Modoc and State of California, have in vented a new and Improved \Vindm ill, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in windmills, and has for its object to provide a means for regulating the same, whereby the wheel will be kept turning ata regular speed in all winds, high or low, and wherein the turn-table will be constantly and automatically lubricated.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a windmill having my improvement attached, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the machine.

In carrying out the invention, A represents the turn-table, upon which a metallic cup, a, is secured, adapted to be filled with oil, and B is the turn-post, provided at its lower end with a flanged ferrule, 71, adapted to rest in the oil-cup 0., whereby the bearing of said turn-post is constantly lubricated and said post readily turned therein. The pump-rod C, which extends upward through the turn table and post, is reciprocated by a connection with the crank-arm C of the wheel-shaft G which may be effected by a pitnlan, C or in any approved manner.

At the side of the turn-post opposite to that upon which the wheel-shaft operated one end of the rudder-stem D is journaled, the 1 other end, near the junction with the rudder D, being journaled in one cross-bar of a rectangular frame, D attached at the upperend of the turn-post, the wheel-shaft being our- Patent No. 399,887, dated March 19, 1889.

Serial No. 247,367- (No model.)

side of the frame D which bars are connected at their upper ends by a series of fans, 6, similarly set to the fans of the wheel and preferably arranged in a semicircle, as shown in Fig. 1. r

The tail E is preferably attached to the lower ends of the body-bars 6, extending at an inclination therefrom, and consists of two beams or bars, 9 brought substantially together at their outer ends and united to an intermediate short bar, 6 carrying a weight, F.

The governor is bolted to the rudder-ste1n by bars F, attached to the body-bars e, and

the frame D and. the other below. The weight F is so adjusted upon the tail and is made heavy enough to just balance the governor in its normal or upright position when the Wheel is running at a predetermined speed, and the rudder is also held by said weight in a position to keep the wheel squarely facing the wind. As the wind increases in force, the pressure against the governor-fans operates upon the same, as on the wheel, causing the body of the governor to turn downward, thereby lifting the weighted tail, which action also turns the rudder from a perpendicular to an angle with the wind or to a horizontal or edgewise position in relation to the same, which movement compels the wheel to turn partly out of the wind. WVhen the governor operates to throw the wheel out of the wind, the weight and rudder operate to hold the wheel to an extent and prevent it from going too far out. Thus the wheel is kept as near as possible to an even and regular speed in all winds, whether high or low.

Below the turn-table, upon the pu1np-rod,a swivel, G, is held to slide, provided with two opposing apertures, g, as shown in Fig. 2, through which apertures chains H and H are passed up through the turn-post and out near the top on opposite sides, the upper end naled in the opposing cross-bar of the frame.

A weighted governor, E, is attached to the rudder-stem D, which governor is constructed of a light yet strong material and made of two united sections the body E and the tail E The body consists of two parallel bars,

6, adapted normally to stand vertically at each of the chain Il being attached to the body of the governor near the fans upon one side, as at h, the upper end of the other chain, H,being attached to the tail near the body, at the edge opposite the edge to which said chain H is fastened and on the same side, as illustrated at 7L. The chain II has a button, 7& outside its aperture to limit its play, and the said chain is utilized when it is desired to stop the also secured to the said stem-one bar above mill, which is accomplished by pulling down upon the swivel, which by reason of the said button draws upon chain H, while chain H passes freely through. This action turns down the governor to a horizontal position, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, thereby changing the position of the rudder also and throwing the wheel out of the wind. WVhen it is required to start the mill, the chain His loosened and the weight brings the regulator to its normal position.

The chain H is attached to the swivel when the Wheel is running, so that in the event of a high. wind it helps to hold the wheel steady. When one chain is attached, the other is detached.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a windmill, the combination, with the turn-post B, the pump-rod O, the rudder-shaft D, and the governor E, secured to the ruddershaft and provided with the arms h, of the swivel G, provided with the apertures g and mounted on the pump-rod, and the ropes or chains H H, secured to the arms h of the governor and passing down through the turnpost and out through the apertures of the swivel, the chain H being provided with the button 71 substantially as herein shown and 30 GEo. H. KNIGHT, GEORGE H. BLANKENSHIP.