US792479A - Gas-pressure regulator. - Google Patents

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No. 792,479. PATENTED JUNE 13, 1905. E. TIMM & W. RUNGE.

A GAS PRESSURE REGULATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 1904.

Jura( falda NiTnn STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

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GAS-PRESSURE REGU LATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,479, 4datedJ' une 13, 1905. Application filed June 6, 1904. Serial No. 211,443.

To (1J/Z 71171/0122, zit may concern:

Be it known that we, EUGnN TIMM and TIL- HELM RUNGE, merchants, subjects of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Sophienstrasse 5 52, in the free town of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful lImprovements in Gas-Pressure Regulators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has reference to appliances for regulating the pressure of gas in gas-receptacles in connection with which the admission of gas into the gas-holder bell is regulated by means of a valve arranged over the I5 mouth of the gas-inlet pipe and governed by the bell by means of a two-armed lever.

The invention comprises a regulating-valve actuated by a weight on the gas-bell to open the inlet-pipe and actuated by the weight of 2O the valve itself to close the inlet-pipe when the gas-bell rises.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical section of a gas-regulator made in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a detail side view of the valve.

The gas-holder a consists of a closed container having an inner wall rt' and a bottom fr, the inlet-pipe l and the outlet-pipe j) leading into said bottom, as shown. The gasometerbell c is placed within the holder with its lower open end disposed between the walls (t a of the holder. Depending centrally from and within the gasometer-bell is a rod having a weight at its lower end, and at the top of 3 5 said bell a tube is secured, which serves as a guideway for a short rod depending from the top of the holder (t. Rising from the bottom ff? of the holder wy is a bar f, and pivoted to this bar is a lever 7e, carrying at one end a 40 stop valve or cap f/. The outer or free end of the lever /L is provided with a depression or recess A weight f is formed on or connected to a rod depending from the upper wall or top of the bell c, and this weight is designed to engage the recess 2f in the lever /t and lift the valve y as the bell c descends. The lever /1/ is so balanced that the arm provided with the stop-valve g is heavier than the arm terminating in the recess t', so that under ordinary circumstances the gas-inlet pipe Z, over which the stop-valve g is arranged, is kept closed by the latter.

The valve may consist of a receptacle m, filled with mercury and arranged around the upper end of the gas-inlet pipe Z, into which the Valve g, which is in the form of a cap with holes 0 close to its bottom edge, is immersed. As long as the holes o in the valve g are completely immersed in the mercury no gas can enter through the pipe Zinto the gas-receptacle. If, however, the bell falls upon gas being taken out of the gas-receptacle through pipe p, the weight descends onto the recessz' of lever 7a, and by its weight depresses the recess t', and the valve ,f/ rises, so that as soon as the holes 0 are only partly above the mercurial liquid gas can enter into the gas-receptacle through the pipe Z. This continues until the weight le in consequence of the rising of the bell c is raised by the latter off the recess i, whereupon the operation is repeated in the same manner by the subsequent descent of the bell when gas is taken from receptacle. Glycerin is introduced into the receptacle in any suitable way.

Having thus described our invention, what we desire to obtain by Letters Patent and claim is* A gas-pressure regulator comprising a gasbell, a weight depending from the dome of the bell, a lever pivoted within the bell, said lever having pivoted to one end thereof a perforated cap or valve, a mercury-chamber surrounding the gas-inlet pipe and forming a dash-pot for the valve or cap, and the opposite end of said lever having a recess to receive the depending .weight as the bell descends, substantially as described.

In witness whereof we subscribe our signatures, in presence of two witnesses, this 9th day of October, 1903.

EUGEN TIMM. WILHELM RUNGE.

lVitnesses:

OTTO W. HELLMRICH, T. CHRIST. HAFERMAMY.

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