Show THE DICKERSON GOVERNOR the dickerson automatic governor company has had dallas and I ledges hedges architects prepare plans for a new factory to be built in salt lake city the increased demand for the com banys governors for use on water wheels has made it necessary to seek larger quarters than is now afforded at the companas comp anys american fork factory also a more central point from which to manufacture and ship its product foundry material and skilled labor are more readily had in salt lake while it is a buying center for machinery after care j j j type D no 4 dickerson automatic governor ful consideration the company concluded that as a location for a main western and home factory salt lake offered the most in natural advantages the utah manufacturers rs association and the commercial club of this city have recently looked into the merits of this governor and have very heartily endorsed the machine and invited and encouraged the location of the factory here the company has recently made a governor selling contract with burt yates of salt lake city these gentlemen are very busy organizing a systematic selling agency for extensive business as their contract calls for the selling of a large number of machines yearly and they are planning a vigorous campaign through the inventor mr arthur dickerson the company has been making rapid advancement in the mechanical department with notable improvements the governor was before simple and compact weighing much less than other governors of the hy oil pressure type and has now been newly constructed in a form giving more than twelve times its former capacity without additional weight giving great ad vantage in stroke and power for use on large power units of the turbine type of water wheel while preserving all the fine points of regulation in the other types of governors made by this company for smaller capacities and upon which its remarkable control record has been made this record is not credited by engineers except where personal examination has been made As a few examples of what the company claims it is doing it offers the following tests made in the presence of engineers of this city which will serve to give those interested in such matters an idea of its efficiency two dickerson governors at the alpine power plant utah county 2000 foot head 1000 H P double wheels on a 90 per cent instant change of load the governors held the speed to seven tenths of one per cent variation at the american fork canyon power plant no 1 on two H P pelton wheels with a dickerson governor on each a run away test was made by pulling the oil switch which takes off the full load instantly with the result that the speed only varied one per cent for a fraction of a see sec ond normal speed being practically maintained vat at the city power plant where the speed of water wheel is R P M 11 the oil or main swich was pu pulled red taking off all the load which was 75 per cent a variation of three revolutions instantly recovered by the dickerson governor was the result which is one half of one per cent the company advertise a guarantee of less than two per cent variation on any change of load on any of the standard types of water wheels either impulse or turbine the management insists that it can actually refer to more than twenty places where its governors have stood a per cent instant change of load with not to exceed one per cent variation such claims must invite the interest of engineers and governor govern or u using sing people as other governor companies seldom claim colser than 12 to 14 per cent variation on per cent change of load the people of utah have reason to take more than passing I 1 notice of a utah invention a native son which if it shall successfully its claims is destined c cess ess fully maintain mainwal i to be in worldwide world wide demand as the need of close reliable control of water power is of growing importance the company has developed five types of governors modifications of 0 the central patent principles for which it has taken out I 1 additional patents the purpose of the different types is to meet difficult and varying conditions in power plants as well as improvements type D no 4 represented in the cut shown is ono one of the larger and more powerful types the cut shows a portion of the center broken away to expose part of the inner mechanism A detailed description with sectional drawings will be the text of another article to appear in the Af mining filing review in another issue |