IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE ACTION OF GOVERNORS OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Taylor, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, (of the firm of Jacot, Taylor, and Tipper, 22,
Water Street,) for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE
ACTION OF GOVERNORS OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES."-A communication.
Sealed the 23rd February 1855, and dated the 9th December 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th December 1854.
I, GEORGE TAYLOR, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, (of
the firm of Jacot, Taylor, & Tipper, 22, Water St.,) do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE ACTION OF
GOVERNORS OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES" to be as follows:-
The nature of the Invention consists in providing a single beam or rod with
a centrifugal ball of equal weight or wing at each end, and resting upon pinions
at the centre in the clevice of a revolving pillar, and a spring, which, when
properly adjusted or connected with the beam, causes the beam or rod and
balls or wings to act, independently of the laws of gravity, reversely to the
centrifugal or distending force occasioned by the revolutions of the pillar; the
Invention being intended to apply to engines in whatever instance they may be
used, and in whatever manner propelled.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th March 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
TAYLOR, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, (of the firm of
Jacot, Taylor, and Tipper, 22, Water St.,) send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord Oac
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said George Taylor, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as J, the said George Taylor,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REGULATING THE ACTION OF
GOVERNORS OF STEAM AND OTHER ENGINES," (communicated to me from abroad,)
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Taylor, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Taylor, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof (that is to say):-
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The nature of the Invention consists in providing a single beam or rod with
a centrifugal ball of equal weight on each end, and resting upon pinions at the
centre in the clevice of a revolving pillar, and a spring, which, when properly
adjusted or connected with the beam, causes the beam or rod and balls to act,
independently of the laws of gravity, reversely to the centrifugal force, thus
rendering the use of the governor feasible and practicable as applied to all
kinds of engines, whether in those which are liable to constant oscillation or
change of position, as, for instance, in occan or river steamers, or in those
which are stationary; the Invention being intended to apply to engines in
whatever instance they may be used, and in whatever manner propelled.

page_text: To enable others to make and use the Invention, I give the following
description thereof, which will be understood by reference to the annexed
Drawing.
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Figure 1 is a general view of the governor as it appears when in motion:
Figure 2 is a side view of the same; Figure 3 represents the side view of a
single beam or rod passing through a spring box, with a centrifugal ball on
each end, of equal weight, and resting upon pinions at the centre. Figure 4 is
a perpendicular view of Figure 3, showing the spring box; Figure 5 exhibits
the spring within the box, the inner end of the spring being hooked upon the
shaft which bears the single beam or rod, and the outer end to the interior sur-
face of the box which contains it, there being a ratchet on the outer edge of the
spring box, for the purpose of drawing up or tightening the spring. Figure 6
is a disconnected view of the spring A, as represented in Figures 1, 2, 3; and
4 is a single beam or rod, with a centrifugal ball of equal weight at each end.
B, as represented in Figures 1 and 2, is a revolving pillar; C, as represented
in Figures 1 and 2, is a tubular slide, which traverses on the revolving pillar B.
D, as represented in Figures 1 and 2, is a rod that connects the single beam
or rod A with the tubular slide C. E, as represented in Figures 1 and 2, is a
rock bar or shaft, which rests upon a stationary pillar, and is connected with
the tubular slide C by means of a crotch with converging points, resting in an
universal slot or groove at the lower end of the tubular slide C. F, as repre-
sented in Figures 1 and 2, is a stationary pillar, upon which the rock shaft E
rests. G, as represented in Figure 1, is a clevice in the upper part of the
revolving pillar B. II, as represented in Figures 1 and 2, is a cog or burr
wheel in contact with a corresponding wheel, which encircles and is attached
to the revolving pillar B. I, as represented in Figures 1 and 2, is a crank,
which is intended to be connected with the main shaft of the engines. The
rock shaft E is intended to be connected at the point K with a steam valve.
It will here be seen, that drawing up or tightening the spring, as seen in
Figure 5, by means of the ratchet on the outer edge of the spring box, it
causes the single beam or rod A, with the centrifugal balls at each end, to act,
independently of the law of gravity, reversely to the centrifugal force; and that
when the crank I is put in motion, it produces, by means of the burr wheel II,
a rotatory motion in the revolving pillar B, and that the revolutions of the
said pillar B cause by centrifugal force the depression of one end of the single
beam or rod A, and the elevation of the other end, which accordingly elevates
or depresses the tubular slide C by the means of the rod D, whereby the rock
shaft E is caused to oscillate with the motion of the tubular slide C, and thus
to open or close more or less the valve with which the rock shaft E is

page_text: intended to be connected at point K, and thereby to increase or diminish the
quantity of steam or other propelling agent admitted to the cylinder of the
engine; or, in other words, to proportion the quantity of steam or other agent
so admitted to the resistance of the engine, and thereby equalize or regulate
the velocity of the same. Wings placed diagonally or otherwise, so as to be
acted upon by the atmosphere, may be used in lieu of the centrifugal balls.
What I claim as the Invention is, the application of a spring or springs
of whatever device as a substitute for the laws of gravity in the operation of
engine governors. I also claim as the Invention, the combination of the single
beam or rod which sustains the centrifugal balls or wings with the springs,
as represented in the Drawings, applied in the manner and for the uses and
purposes herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JOHN JOSEPH, Bookkeeper,
11, Sugnall Street, Liverpool.
GEORGE TAYLOR. (L.S.)