Motors: spring – weight – or animal powered – Spring – Escapement controlled
Patent
1988-01-28
1989-05-23
Herrmann, Allan D.
Motors: spring, weight, or animal powered
Spring
Escapement controlled
74 15, 185DIG1, 368134, 368181, 446464, F03G 106, F16H 2700, G04B 1512
Patent
active
048321567
ABSTRACT:
A braking device is provided to reduce the speed at which a shiftable spring motor runs down. The braking device includes a pallet which is mounted so that it can oscillate, the pallet having a pair or arms which cooperate with the teeth of an escape wheel 13 which rotates as the spring runs down. The pallet is connected to a pendulum weight. The depth of engagement of the arms of the pallet in the teeth of the escape wheel as well as the amplitude of oscillation of the pallet and/or the pendulum weight connected therewith allow the braking action to be changed and hence the speed at which the motor runs down in one of a plurality of selectable shift positions.
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Herrmann Allan D.
Lavine Irvin A.
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