US553170A

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Publication number: US553170A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-01-14
Anticipated expiration: 1913-01-14

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(No Model.)

E. A. LEINARD.

WINDMILL REGULATOR. No. 553,170. Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR A. LEINARD, OF KENTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOB OF TW'O-THIRDS TO THOMAS J. CANTVELL AND GEORGE S. BINOKLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

WINDMILL-REGULATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,170, dated January 14, 1896.

Application filed May 2l, 1895. Serial No. 550,115. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: 7 is fulcrumed intermediate of its ends on a Be it known that I, EDGAR A. LEINARD, a support 9. Its inner end is connected with the citizen of the United States, residing at Kenplunger pivotally, and its outer end is proton, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, vided with a ring for the attachment of the 5 have invented a new and useful Windmilloperating-wire 8, whereby, when the plunger 55 Regulator, of which the following is a speciis moved upward in the cylinder, the operatiication. ing-wire will be drawn downward to throw The invention relates to improvements in the windmill out of the wind, as will be readwindmill-regulators. ily understood. The piston or plunger-head to The object of the present invention is to is inverted-cup shaped and is constructed of 6o improve the construction of windmill-reguleather or other suitable material, and the rod lators and to provide a simple and efficient or stem 6 has attached to it a weighted lever one which will be automatic in its operation lO, adapted to force the plunger downward and capable of throwing a windmill out of to throw the windmill into operation. The

r 5 the wind when a tank is full, and adapted to weighted lever is pivoted intermediate of its 65 start the windmill again when the contents ends to the rod or stem 6 and is provided at its of the tank have been consumed. outer end with an adjustable weight, and its The invention consists in the construction inner end is fulcrumed on a support ll, similar and novel combination and arrangement of to the support 9 for the lever 7. The sup- 2o parts hereinafter fully d'escribed, illustrated ports 9 and ll are disposed at opposite sides 7o in the accompanying drawings, and pointed of the cylinder and have their lower ends out in the claims hereto appended. hingedly mounted on the top of the cylinder,

In the drawings, Figure lis a sectional view and the rod or stem 6 passes through an openof awindmill-regulator constructed in according of a substantially L -shaped guide l2,

25 ance with this invention and shown connected mounted on the top of the cylinder and hav- 7 5 with a tank and with the operating-wire of a ing an inwardly-extending arm provided with windmill. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View the said opening. The supports 0 and ll are of the regulator detached. Fig. 3 is a side adapted to swing inward and outward to perelevation illustrating a modification of the mit free vertical movement of the rod or stem 3o invention. Fig. 4 is a sectional vview of the 6, and the levers connected therewith are per- 8o regulator shown in Fig. 2. mitted free movement.

Like numerals of reference indicate corre- In Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings is sponding parts in all the figures of the drawillustrated a modification of the invention, in ings. which one of the supports is rigid, and the 35 l designates a standard disposed vertically guide is dispensed with. In this form of the 8 5 and connected at its lower end with a supplyinvention the support 1l for the weighted pipe 2, extending from a pump 3 of a windlever is rigid, and the other one is hingedly mill to a tank 4, which is provided with a floator pivotally mounted similar to that hereto- Y valve 5a for closing the supply-pipe when the fore described.

4o tank is sufficiently filled. Within the cylin- It will be seen that the windmill-regulator 9o der l is arranged a piston 5, secured to the is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in conlower end of the vertically-disposed rod or struction, it is positive and reliable in operstem G. The piston and its rod or stem form ation, and it is sensitive and capable of readily a plunger, which is adapted to be raised in throwing the windmill into and out of oper- 45 the cylinder by back-pressure of the water in ation. The parts are compactly arranged and 95 the supply-pipe when the float-valve is closed are capable of being readily located in a well by reason of the tank being full, and the rod or cistern, and the lever 7 has sufficient throw or stem has connected to it one end of a lever to operate completely a windmill.

7, which is attached to the lower terminus of Changes in the form, proportion, and the 5o the operating-wire 8 of a windmill. The lever minor details of construction may be resorted roo to Without departing from the princi-ple or sacrificing any. of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim is- 1. In a Wind mill regulator, the combination of a cylinder, a piston arrangedtherein and provided with a stem, a lever fulcrumed intermediate of its ends at one side of the cylinder and having its inner end connected to the stem, and its outer end connected With the operating Wire or the like of a Wind mill, and a Weighted lever fulerumed at its inner end at the opposite side of the cylinder and connected intermediate of its ends with the stem, and provided at its outer end With a Weight, substantially as described.

2. In a Wind mill regulator, the combina-v tion of a cylinder, a piston arranged therein and having a stem, the opposite supports hingedly connected at their lower ends with the cylinder, a guide mounted on the cylinder and receiving the stem, a lever fulcrumed in`- termediate of its ends on one of the supports and connected at its inner end to the stem and designed to be connected at its outer end with the operating Wire of a Wind mill, and a Weighted lever fulcrumed at its inner end on the other support and connected intermediate of its ends to the stem and provided at its outer end with a Weight, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my oWn I have hereto aiCiXed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

EDGAR A. LEINARD.

Witnesses:

JOHN MCELREE, WILLIAM D. BOWLING.