AN IMPROVED APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO GAS GOVERNORS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Weston, of Flat Street, Sheffield, in the County of
York, Machinist, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS APPLICABLE
TO GAS GOVERNORS."
Sealed the 20th August 1878, and dated the 22nd February 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Weston at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd February 1878.
GEORGE WESTON, of Flat Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Machinist.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO GAS GOVERNORS."
My Invention relates to the giving of power to control distant gas governors from
any given place or situation, and is accomplished in manner following, that is to
say I use ordinary water tanks with loose covers, same as are used for gas holders,
and place one or more in any selected place or situation, and another I place directly
over the distant gas governor, and connect the cover of the tank with the cover of
the governor by means of rods or other appliances, in such manner as will cause
them to rise or fall together. Or, I place the water tank by the side of the gas
governor and connect the covers thereof by means of a beam on the same principal
as that of a pair of scales, so fastened as to ensure the rise of one cover by the fall
of the other. From the water tank placed over or by the side of the gas governor to
the water tank in the said given place or situation I lay a pipe, passing it through
the water to the under side of the covers of each of the said tanks; by the side of
this pipe I place another pipe, and connect it with the gas service pipe after leaving
the governor, and convey same to the said given place or situation, attaching
thereto a gauge to indicate the pressure of gas; and, if necessary, I connect
another pipe to indicate the pressure of the gas in the service main before entering
the governor.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Weston in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st August
1878.
GEORGE WESTON, of Flat Street, Sheffield, in the County of York, Machinist.
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS APPLICABLE TO GAS GOVERNERS."
My Invention relates to the giving of power to control distant gas governors from
any given place or situation, and is accomplished in manner following, that is to
say I use for each governor two ordinary water tanks with loose covers, same in
construction as are used for gas holders, and place one or more in any selected place
or situation, and another I place directly over the distant gas governor, and
connect the cover of the tank by rods or other appliances, in such manner as will
cause them to rise or fall together. Or, I place the water tank by the side of the
gas governor, and connect the covers thereof by means of a beam, on the same
principle as a pair of scales, so fastened as to ensure the rise of one cover by the fall
of the other. From the water tank over or by the side of the gas governor to the
water tank in the said given place or situation I lay a pipe and pass it through
the water to the under side of the covers of each of the said tanks, and I use
another pipe and connect it with the gas service pipe after leaving the governor,
and convey same to the said given place or situation, attaching thereto a guage to
indicate the pressure of gas; and, if necessary, I make use of another pipe to indicate
the pressure of gas in the service main before leaving the governor.
Having described the appliances necessary for the purpose of my Invention, the mode
of working is as follows:-The two airometers or tanks being connected by a pipe,
motion or action is produced in the distant airometer or tank by diminishing
the weight of the cover of the central one; thus, if you place weights upon the
central airometer cover, it will produce a corresponding elevation in the one at the
distant governor, and being connected to the cover of the governor it will lift the
same, or bear it up, and the reverse is produced by reducing the weight of the central
airometer cover.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Weston, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the said George Weston in
the presence of
GEO. ERSKINE INCE,
Clerk,
Sheffield.
GEORGE WESTON. (L.S.)