Patent Model - Improvement in Governors for Steam-Engines
Maker and role
Carl Rungvist (b.1824, d.Unknown), Patentee
Production date
Oct 14 1873
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Brass, steel
Measurements
6 x 2 5/16 x 3 3/4" (15.2 x 5.9 x 9.5cm)
Description
Rungvist's invention has for its object "to produce a governor for steam-engines and other motors, also for wheel-works, which will be simple but absolutely obedient to the various velocities of the engine, and therefore effective upon the valve, whose position it controls, and which, as to wheel-works, will, through direct frictional counteraction, keep them going at a regular speed. The invention consists, more particularly, in the use of an oscillating ring or plate, or of a combination of several parts, which are more or less symmetrically placed around a common center of support and gravity. This plate or ring is kept in cotinuous oscillation, so that any point on a line drawn from the center of gravity, at right angles with the place of this plate or ring, will describe a circle in space." (Patent Number 143,642)
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Object number
2015.14.1636a-e
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