Improvements relating to Gas Governors.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements relating to Gas Governors.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS SUGG, of Vincent Works, Regency Street, Westminster,
London, S.W., Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The object of this invention is to provide a governor for high pressure burners,
in which the pressure at the point of ignition will always remain constant, not-
withstanding the changes of pressure in the main; and the invention consists in
so applying a pair of floating discs, that this object may be effected.
In carrying out this invention, I provide in the same casing two floating discs,
one above the other, in combination with two regulating plates, which answer to
the valve seat in the usual way.
The holes in the discs I regulate according to the requirements; thus, if the
governor is for 10 ft. per hour, I make the hole in the top disc of the proper size,
and I make the hole in the lower disc a little larger.
By this arrangement, I have two equilibrium valves, and the second or lower one
becomes, so to speak, automatically weighted by the pressure of the gas above it,
kept back, as it were, by the throttling of the gas passage above it.
In this way, the use of weights, as is usual, is entirely dispensed with, and a
perfectly reliable governor is produced, which will work without friction.
Dated this 28th day of February 1898
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS SUGG, of Vincent Works, Regency Street, Westminster,
London, S.W., Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
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The object of this invention is to provide a governor for high-pressure burners,
in which the pressure at the point of ignition will always remain constant, not-
withstanding the changes of pressure in the main.
In carrying out my invention, I employ a pair of co-operating valves, comprising
floating discs, arranged in a casing one above the other, and working in conjunction,
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page_text: with a pair of fixed partitions, wherein are passages for the gas, the area of the
passages being controlled by the position of the floating discs, determined by the
pressure of the gas to which they are exposed.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown, in sectional elevation, a gas
governor embodying my invention.
A is the casing and B B are a pair of fixed horizontal partitions placed one
above the other, and having hollow bell-formed portions 66₁, centrally placed on
the upper faces. * are holes in the sides of the said portions bb¹.
C, C are floating discs situated respectively beneath the partitions B, B¹, and
having tubular portions c, c¹ extending into the bell portions bb1 of the parti-
tions B, B, and arranged in such manner as to co-operate with them, and form a
pair of valves, to control the passage of the gas, as the discs C, C rise and fall.
The gas enters the casing at r, at the bottom, beneath the lower valve, the passing
capacity of which is somewhat in excess of that of the upper valve. The latter,
being regulated to the requirements of the supply, receives the gas from the first
valve, and permits it to pass to the exit y.
By this arrangement, have a double equilibrium valve, the separate portions of
which co-operate, and assist one another in maintaining the proper regulation of gas
pressure in a very satisfactory manner, so that it will be found unnecessary to
employ weights, which have been sometimes required for adjusting the governor.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The herein described improvement in gas governors, wherein a pair of valves are
arranged one above the other in a casing, and act consecutively on the gas on its
way from the main, substantially as set forth.
Dated this on day 01 November 10,
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.