Windmill control system for multiengined aircraft

• US 3,227,176 A
• Filed: 12/31/1962
• Issued: 01/04/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George W. Luebering, Norbert J. Meyer
• Original Assignee: George W. Luebering, Norbert J. Meyer
• Inventors: Luebering, George W., Meyer, Norbert J.
• Application Number:
  US04/248,535
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• US Class Current: 137/601.08
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 35/00 Transmitting power from power plants to propellers or rotors; Arrangements of transmissions
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 17/162 for axial flow, i.e. the vanes turning around axes which are essentially perpendicular to the rotor centre line F01D17/167 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/563 specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87467 Axes of rotation parallel

Claims

1. IN A TURBOJET ENGINE WINDMILL BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEM:

A ROW OF VARIABLE STATOR VANES;

LATCHING MEANS, SAID LATCHING MEANS INCLUDING;

A DRIVEN MEMBER, SAID DRIVEN MEMBER BEING OPERABLY CONNECTED TO SAID ROW OF VANES FOR ADJUSTMENT THEREOF BETWEEN TWO EXTREME POSITIONS AND HAVING A PIVOT POINT FIXED THEREON;

A BELLCRANK HAVING A FIRST ARM AND A SECOND ARM, SAID ARMS EXTENDING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO EACH OTHER, SAID BELLCRANK BEING MOUNTED ON SAID PIVOT POINT AT THE JUNCTURE OF SAID ARMS;

A SUPPORT MEMBER, SAID MEMBER BEING FIXED WITH RESPECT TO SAID DRIVEN MEMBER AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF STOP MEANS THEREON;

A LOCKING MEMBER, SAID LOCKING MEMBER BEING MOUNTED ON THE FREE AND OF SAID FIRST ARM;