Abstract: A centrifugal rpm governor for internal combustion engines in which the initial stressing of an adaptation spring is adjustable in a continuously variable manner in the installed state and without changing the spring stroke (b) determining the adaptation path. The governor includes an adaptation device disposed in the force transmitting path between a control member which adjusts in accordance with rpm and a force transmitting member subject to the force of the governor spring, which adaptation device includes in a recessed longitudinal bore, a stop bolt and an adaptation spring supported at one end by a ring screwed onto a threaded portion of the stop bolt, the ring being guided for axial displacement and provided with rotational securing means in the longitudinal bore so that by rotating the stop bolt a variation of the initial stressing of the adaptation spring in a continuously variable manner is possible without affecting the preset spring stroke (b).

Abstract: A regulator apparatus controlled by spring tension, such as a centrifugal governor for internal combustion engines wherein the spring characteristic of the regulator spring remains unchanged during operation and a regulator effectiveness which remains the same over a long period of time is attainable and which includes at least one compression spring acting as the regulator spring and inserted between two supports as well as an actuation member to transfer those regulator motions which tend to cause a change in length of the spring over onto the first spring end, which actuation member can tilt about a transverse shaft disposed perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the spring, the compression spring intentionally inserted into an installed position such that a point on the front face of the appropriate spring end, which point transfers the largest spring force component onto the spring support associated with the tiltable actuation member lies in a plane extending parallel to the longitudinal shaft of t