US1030148A - Splash system of lubrication. - Google Patents

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E. M. WHITE. SPLASH SYSTEM OF LUBRIGATION. APPLIOATIONIFILED JANA, 191 2.

Patented June 18. 1912.

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EBNESTM. WHITE, 03 GLOBE, ARIZONA.

SPLASH SYSTEIVL F LUBRIGATION.

I To all whom it may conoem:

cant containers 5, 6, 7 and 8 lying re- Be it known that I, ERNEST M. WHITE, spectively in and adjacent the planes of roa citizen of the United States, residing in tation. of the four connecting rods of the Globe, Gila county, Arizona, have invented engine. The crank end of each of these rods certain Improvements in Splash Systems of is provided with an extension 9 designed to Lubrication, of which the following is a enter its particular reservoir, and the bottom I specification. of the crank case is so arranged that por- I One object of my invention Is to provide tions thereof on both sides of each resera novel construction and arrangement of voir slope toward or into the same. parts. adapted for use in connection. with The one side of the crank case immediengines, especially of the internal combusatcly adjacent each of the reservoirs is protion type, whereby the act of adjusting the vided with inclined gutters 10 and each gutthrottle of the engine shall cause a correter adjacent a given reservoir is so arranged spending adjustment of a lubricant regu as to collect a portion of the oil splashed lating device in order that the amount of up by the connecting rod extension 9 from lubricant in active circulation shall be vasaidsreservoir and to discharge such oil into ried with and in proportion to the amount one of the reservoirs next adjacent to it. of work done by. the engine. a In the case of the reservoir 5, the gutter Another object'of the invention is to proadjacent thereto has the form indicated at vide a novel device particularly adapted for 11 and consists of two portions draining to use in connection with a splash system of a eonunon point from whence as shown in lubrication and having connection with the dotted lines in Fig. 1, the conduit 12, leads,

throttle of the'engine, whereby the adjustusually outside of the crank case, to a pipe ment of'said throttle to vary the flow of 13 which discharges into a storage tank 14. .fuel to the engine shall in addition cause a Any suitable form of pump 15 has its ingreater or less amount ofv lubricant to be take connected to this tank and its outlet put into active circulation in order to meet arranged to discharge into thercservoir 8.

the varied conditions resulting from such As well. shown in Fig. 3, this particular throttle adjustment; it being especially dereservoir 8 is provided with what may be sired that the device shall be relatively simdescribed as an adjustable weir, t. 0., there ple, inexpensive and of such a nature not is in one of its sides an opening 16 having easily to get out of order. a substantially level bottom edge 17 over These objects and other advantageous which the liquid above a' predetermined ends I secure as hereinafter set forth, refamount entering the reservoir 8 is free to erence being had to the accompanying drawflow into the storage tank 14. Immediately ings, in which adjacent said edge, however, I mount an ad- Flgure l, is a vertical section to some exjustable piece 18 having in the present case tent diagrammatic, illustrating my inventhe form of an elongated cylindrical seg tion. as applied to the crank case of an. interment and mounted on a rod 19 carried in a nallcom'bustion engine; Fig. 52 is a trans suitable bearing in the crank case or other verse vertical section on the line aa, Fig. supporting structure so as to be rotatable' f 1;;and Fig. 3, is an enlarged vertical section Said rod is provided with a stufling box further illustrating my invention. where it passes through the side of the crank Inthe above drawings, 1 represents a p'orcase and is provided with an arm 20 con tion of the fuel-supply device or conduit oi nected by a'link 21 with the arm 3-which, an internal combustion engine, in which is before noted, is attached to the throttle mounted a throttle valve having an operatvalve and to the arm 2 whereby this latter ing arin'2. and a second arm 3 hereinafter is actuated. The adjustable piece 18, which referred to. lhe crank case 4 of the engine, serves as avalve,is of such proportions and which, in this ainstancefls of the four-cylinis so placed that when the arm 20 is in the der type, is provided with partitions formposition shown its plane face lies at the ing four transversely extending lubrirea ies.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 18, 1912. Application filed January 4, 1912. SerialJtof 669,308. I

level or in the same plane as the overflow v ordinarily be retained.

edge 17. Owing to the fact that this plane face of the valve or adjustable weir does not intersect the line about which it is rotatable, a movement of the rod 20 in one direction raises that edge of said valve which is adj acent the reservoir 8 and thus requires the accumulation in said reservoir of a body of lubricant greater than that whichwould Under operating conditions, the arm 20 is so connected to the arm 2 of the engine throttle valve that whensaid valve is in a posit-ion to cause the engine to operate under normal conditions, the valve or weir 18 is in the position shown in Fig. 3. Consequently, the operation of the pump 15 maintains the lubricant in the reservoir 8 at the level shown and' the splashing up Ofo said lubricant by the parts 9 of the connecting rod operating therein, causes a certain part of the oi. from this reservoir to flow into the gutters 10 adjacent thereto so that it passes to the reservoir 7. As long as j the engine is working under normal conditions, the level of lubricant in this reservoir remains at a very definite height sufficient to cause roper lubrication of the engine parts and at the same time the oil splashed up from this reservoir by the'connecting rod is passed by the gutter adjacent thereto to the reservoir 6 and so 011. Thus, a predetermined and suitable supply of oil is provided and its level in the reservoir 8 is maintained at a predetermined point, since the surplus supplied by-thepump 15 would be immediately discharged into the storage tank 14: over the weir edge 17 and the valve 18. If, now, the throttle valve of the engine be opened in view of an increased load or in order to obtain an increase of the speed, the valve or wier 18 is so turned through the link 21 and the arm 20, as to prevent flow of oil from the reservoir 8 until the amount therein has been increased to such a height as to permit of it overflowing the raised edge of the said valve 18; it being of course understood that the pump 15 is at all times operated at a speed necessary to raise the level of lubricant in this tank in spite of the action of the engine in removing it from the same.

As a consequence of the increased height "of lubricant in the reservoir 8, a larger quan tity of oil is splashed up by the connecting rod operating therein and this increased amount passes to-the succeeding reservoirseach of which is thus provided with an abnormal amount of oil, so that the engine, as a unit, has in active circulation the greater amount of lubricant required by the increase of load. The oil from the reservoir 5 passes from the trough 11 through the conduit 12 and the pipe 13 back to the storage tank 14-,

The return of the throttle to its normal open position likewise causes the adjustable wier to be brought back to the position said container; means for supplying oil to the container; with means for varylngthe position of the bottom edge of theoverflow opening to vary the depth of oil in the container. e

2. The combination of an oil reservoir having an overflow opening; a member peri odically entering the reservoir for removmg 011 therefrom; means for supplying oil to the reservoir faster than it is removed therefrom by said member; and means for adjusting the overflow to vary the depth of oil in the reservoir. v i 3. The combination with the throttle of an engine,- of an oil reservoir; a movable member mounted to enter the reservoir for removing oil therefrom; means for supplying oil to the reservoir; and a device for.

varying the depth of oil in the reservoir operatively connected to the throttle so as to be adjustable therewith.

4. The combination with the throttle of an engine, ofv an oil reservoir having an overflow opening provided with an adjust-- able member for varying the depth of oil said member with the engine throttle to cause it to be adjusted with said throttle; and means for supplying oil to the reservoir.

5. The combination of an engine crank case having a series of reservoirs formed to be entered respectively by portions of the engine; means for transmitting to certain reservoirs the oil splashed up from other reservoirs; a storage reservoir connected to an end one of said reservoirs; means for delivering oil from the storage reservoir to the other end reservoir; said last reservoir having an overflow opening discharging into the storage reservoir; and means for adjusting the depth at which the,

oil in said last reservoirdischarges through said overfiow- 0pening.-

6. The combination of acrank. case having a series of oil reservoirs respectively entered by moving parts of the en ine; means for delivering oil splashed upzrom certain of the reservoirs int-o adjacent reservoirs; a storage reservoir connected to receive oil splashed up from an end one, of said reservoirs; means for delivering oil froin the storage reservoir to the other end 100 in said reservoir; means for connecting reservoir; said latter reservoir having an overflow provided with an adj stable structure for varying the depth of oil therein; a throttle for the-engine; and means for 0peiatively connecting said throttle with the said adjustable structure.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two SUbSCIlblIlg witnesses.

ERNEST M. WHITE.

Witnesses:

J. C. BRALEY, L, K. WHITE.

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