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Disclosed is a wind-driven generator apparatus with variable pitch blades. The apparatus includes a yaw damping arrangement for resisting weathervaning rotation of a head assembly of the apparatus about a vertical axis and the apparatus further includes a pitch control mechanism for the blades which

Disclosed is a wind-driven generator apparatus with variable pitch blades. The apparatus includes a yaw damping arrangement for resisting weathervaning rotation of a head assembly of the apparatus about a vertical axis and the apparatus further includes a pitch control mechanism for the blades which maintains the pitch substantially constant during normal operating r.p.m. of the blades but allows the blades to pitch up in an overspeed condition, and a brake mechanism for the generator shaft which includes an adjusting mechanism that compensates for wear in the brake.

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In wind-driven generator apparatus having a rotor blade adapted to change pitch from a given pitch configuration in response to an increase in rotational speed of the blade, said blade tending to return to the given configuration in response to a reduction in the rotational speed of the blade, the i

In wind-driven generator apparatus having a rotor blade adapted to change pitch from a given pitch configuration in response to an increase in rotational speed of the blade, said blade tending to return to the given configuration in response to a reduction in the rotational speed of the blade, the improvement comprising extendable and retractable damper means for damping the return of the blade to said given configuration, said damper means being fully retracted when said blade is in said given pitch configuration and constituting pitch stop means for arresting said blade in said given pitch configuration.