US Patent: 1,036,058
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| Reversible Variable Cut-Off Valve Gear for Locomotives
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Patentee:
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| Abner D. Baker (exact or similar names) - Swanton, Fulton County, OH |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Aug. 10, 1911 |
| Granted: |
Aug. 20, 1912 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for A.D. Baker Company
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Description: |
| Claim:
In a reversible, variable cutoff valve gear for locomotives, the combination with an eccentric rod, valve stern, cross head and reach rod, of a support, a rocker journaled on the support, and having a pair of arms, one connected to the valve stem, a lever fulcrumed by one end on the other arm of the rocker and having the other end connected to the cross head, an adjusting bell crank journaled on the support and haring one arm pivotally connected to the reach rod and adjustable thereby through an arc, a rocker link pendently pivoted to the other arm of the adjusting bell crank, a radius bar pivotally connected by one end to the rocker link, and by its opposite end to the lever near its fulcrum, a transmitting bell crank journaled on the support and having one arm pivotally connected to the forward end of the eccentric rod, and a radius rocker pivotally connected by one end to the other arm of the transmitting bell crank and by the opposite end centrally to the radius bar at a radius equal to the radius of the hell crank arm. |
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