Kohler Company

Jeffrey L Bracht

Kenneth R Seymour, Ii

Richard D Van Maaren

Jerry R Reineking

Martin W Heinrich

Gregory E Schmitz

William H Sharp

Andrew J Sugden

James Webster

Richard L Sleder

Sami M Chukrallah

Jennifer J Van Dalen

A governor system assembly and related method for assembling the same. The assembly may include a governor gear, a weight, and a locking pin pivotably coupling the weight to the governor gear along a pivot axis. The locking pin includes a locking segment rotatable into engagement with the gear about the pivot axis for securing the pin to the gear. In one assembly, the locking pin is rotatable between an unlocked position in which the locking pin is axially removable from the gear and a locked position in which a locking pin is not axially removable when the locking segment engages the gear. The locking pin may be L-shaped in some assemblies.

Governor system assembly

A fan shroud for an internal combustion engine includes a snap-on detachable overflow bottle. The fan shroud has a fan opening and a unitary bottle mount with a deflectable bottle clip with a latch end that engages a groove in the overflow bottle. The mount includes an opposite side with an inwardly directed locking surface that engages a recess in a side face of the overflow bottle. The overflow bottle is held upright and secured to the fan shroud by snapping it into the bottle mount.

Fan shroud with snap-on coolant bottle

A compact generator unit including a cooling system in which the engine and generator are mounted at points outside of the perimeter of the generator fan such that the generator fan serves to cool both the generator and the engine.

Cooling system for a compact generator

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Cascade, WI, United States of America

Jeffrey L Bracht