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UNITED~ STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN STEIN, OF FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS.
WINDMILL-REGULATOR.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,403, dated March 5,1901.
Application filed September 12, 1900. Serial No, 29,783, No modei.)To all whom zt may comcerne:
Be it known that I, JOHN STEIN, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Fredericks-
burg, in the county of Gillespie and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Wind-
mill-Regulator, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to improvements in
windmill - regulators of that class distinr
to guished by the provision of a movable bucket
connected to the regulating-cable of a wind-
mill and communicating with the tank or res-
ervoir supplied by the mill to cause the de-
pression of the bucket for the purpose of
15 throwing the mill out of gear or out of the
wind, as the case may be, when the level of
water in the tank has reached a predeter-
mined point.
The object of the invention is to simplify
20 the construction in a manner to render the
apparatus more effective and to prevent the
overflowing of the bucket when the latter is
depressed.
Other and subordinate objects will herein-
25 after more fully appear as the necessity for
their accomplishment is developed in the suc-
ceeding description of the preferred form of
the invention illustrated in the accompany-
ing drawings and succinctly defined in the
30 appended claims
In said drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional
elevation of my apparatus complete, the up-
per portion of the windmill being broken
away. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, on a
35 somewhat enlarged scale, showing the novel
manner of supporting and counterbalancing
the removable regulating chamber or bucket.
Referring to the numerals of reference em-
ployed to designate corresponding parts in
40 both views, 1 indicates a portion of a wind-
mill-tower, and 2a pump of ordinary construc-
tion, designed to be operated by the pump-
rod 3, operatively connected with the wind-
wheel (not shown) for the purpose of supply-
45 ing water to the tank or reservoir 4 through
a supply-pipe 5, leading to the tank from the
pump 2. It will be obvious that the opera-
tion of the windmill will effect the filling of
the tank 4, and it is the purpose of the pres-
So ent invention to provide means for automat-
ically discontinuing the operation of the wind-
mill when the water in the tank has reachedthe desired level. The means employed for
this purpose comprehends the regulating-
cable 6, connected to the regulating mechan- 55
ism of the wind-wheel in a manner well un-
derstood in the art and connected at its lower
end to the bucket or regulating-chamber 7,
mounted in a manner to be described within
the frame or tower of the mill. From the 6o
bottom of the bucket 7 is extended laterally
a bucket-supply pipe 8, connected by means
of a flexible coupling 9 with a stand-pipe 10,
communicating at its lower end with the in-
terior of the tank 4 adjacent to the bottom 65
thereof. The bucket 7 is normally located
in a horizontal plane adjacent to the plane
of the upper end of the tank in oider that the
water from said tank will not enter the bucket
until a comparatively elevated level has been 70
reached At the lower end of the stand-pipe
10 I provide a drip-cock 11, by means of which
the pipes 8 and 10 and the bucket 7 may be
drained to prevent freezing in winter, and
between the drip-cock 11 and the tank I pro- 75
vide the pipe 10 with a controlling-valve 12,
by means of which the bucket may be placed
in effective communication with the tank
when the automatic regulation of the wind-
mill is desired or operatively disconnected 8o
when its use is unnecessary
An essential feature of the invention re-
sides in the peculiar mounting of the bucket
7 to prevent swinging thereof, which would
tend to break or derange the parts, and also 85
in the counterbalancing of the bucket to re-
lieve the regulating-cable 6 of its weight un-
der ordinary conditions, as well as to insure
the return of the movable parts to their nor-
mal positions at the proper time. To effect 90
these several ends, the bucket 7 is mounted
in a suitable hanger or bucket-frame 13 of
approximate U shape and provided with ter-
minal loops 14 at diametrically opposite sides
of the top of the bucket for the attachment 95
of the branches 15 and 16 of the cable 6 and
for the ends of a pair of cables 17 and 18, de-
signed for the support of the bucket, passed
over idlers or pulleys 19, suitably journaled
in the frame of the windmill and supporting oz
a pair of counterbalancing-weights 20 and 21,
which counterbalance the bucket 7 to prevent
the imposition of its weight upon the regu-
lating-cable 6 and the gearing of the mill.
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Stein, John. Windmill-Regulator, patent, March 5, 1901; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514085/m1/2/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.