Governor means for toy and game motors or the like

Claim 1

Governor means for use in toys, games and the like having a frame structure, for operative connection to a motor means of the toy or game to control the operating speed of the motor means, comprising: a housing immovably fixedly positioned on the frame structure and having a closed interior cavity, a driven shaft rotatably mounted on said housing and extending from said motor means through said housing into said cavity, a first circular disc gear disposed in said cavity and drivingly connected to said shaft so as to be rotatably driven thereby, a second circular idler disc gear freely rotatable within said cavity and mesh with said first disc gear for rotation thereby about an axis generally parallel and in fixed positional relation to the axis of rotation of the first disc gear and the housing, said cavity being comprised of a cylindrical portion concentric with and surrounding each of said disc gears, the cylindrical portions joining each other in the meshed area of said disc gears, the cylindrical walls of each of said cavity portions being spaced from the adjacent peripheral extremities of the teeth on the respective disc gear a sufficient distance to provide liquid passage means therebetween, and a relatively high viscosity liquid substantially filling said cavity and substantially surrounding said disc gears including filling said passage means to provide resistance to the driving of said disc gears.