US1255088A

US1255088A - Automatic oiler.

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Publication number: US1255088A
Application number: US19309417A
Authority: US
Inventors: William A Frederick
Original assignee: MOTOR CAR EQUIPMENT Co
Current assignee: MOTOR CAR EQUIPMENT Co
Priority date: 1917-09-25
Filing date: 1917-09-25
Publication date: 1918-01-29
Anticipated expiration: 1935-01-29

Description

W. A. FREDERICKL AUTOMATIC OIUER. APPLICATiONF-ILED SEPT. 2 5. 1911.

Patented. Jan. 29, 1918.

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' @ontinuation of aphlication Serial No. 126,415, filed October 18, 1918., This application file d: September 25,

1917. Serial no. 198,094. j

, ERICK, a citizen of the United States, and" 'To all-whom it may'concer n:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. FRED- resident of Boston, in the county ofSuliolk and State of Massachusetts, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Oilers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in automatic oilers of thetype shown and generi cally claimed in my 'copending application 1 Serial No. 177,119, filed June 26th, 1917,

and which utilizes the vibration, jarring or other usually-slight bodily movement of the machines or apparatus to be, oiled, to effect the movement of an oil carrier from a source I of supply to an oil delivery means.

In the specific form shown in said application, a wick or. other capillary device raises tion from which they, may drain by gravit through said tube.

My present invention contemplates the use of a wick or other cap' lary device to receive oil from said oil carrier and which thereby permits of the lateral as well as the downward delivery of oil. It also. involves a novel form of support for theoil carrier and certain other features.

With these and other objects in view the improved inventionconsists in the construetion and combination of parts substantially as hereinafter described.

Of the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a vertical section through my improved automatic oiler in one of its embodlments. g

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with with the stopper or cap removed, and with the duct nipple in section.

Fig. 3 represents a section on line 3 '3 of Fig. 1. 1

angle to that of Fig. 4 and stead of a horizontal one. the numerals which are thesame as those Figs. & and 5 are vertical sectional representations of another embodiment of my invention, the section of Fig. 5 being at a right Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional representation of another modification.

Similar reference characters indicate the same' or similar parts in all of the views.

' Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the

reservoir 10 for the oil, is provided with a suitable cap-or stopper 11, which may be screw-threaded or. otherwise secured in place.) Extending transversely ,of'th'e reservoir 10, near its upper end, is a troughshaped guide 12 foran 0il-carrying vibrator 13, which is illustrated as a sphere, but ohviously might be. a short cylinder if the guide were properly shaped.

A wick 1 1 extendsthrough an opening 15 at one end of the guide 12, down into the oil in. the reservoir'lO Another wick 16 extends over the other end of the guide 12 out through a duct in the nipple 17.

It will readily-be understood that by capillary attraction oil from thereservoir 10 has a constant tendency to reach the'upper end of the wick 14. When the machine in which the oiler is attached is in motion, the vibrations ofthe machine cause the vibrator 13 to travel back and forth along the guide 12, and so take oil from the upper end of the wick .14, and transfer it to the Wis]: 16, which willconduct oiltothe oil particular place to be lubricated. .When the machine is idle or stationary and the parts are requiring no lubrication, the vibrator13 will cease to move and therefore there will he no oil conducted or transferred from one wick to the other..

A small hole 18 in-the guide 17 serves to permit any accumulation ofoilon or in guide to return to the bottom of the wearvoir.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I illustrate anemhodiment of the invention designed to supply lubricating oil through averticalnipple in- In said figures in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, indicate substantially the same features or parts. In said Figs. 4 and 5, the wick for conducting the outgoing oil is indicated at 15, and is inclosed in a small tube 19, which communicates with a port 20 in the base of'the reservoir, the latter communicating with a port 2 l-"i n the vertical nipple 17 With this form-g he vibrator 13 operates in the same manner; as hereinbefore described in connection with Fig. l, to transfer oil from the upper end of the capillary wick 14 to the end of the outgoing conducting wick 16.

In Fig. 6 the reservoir 10 having a cap 11*, is provided with a nipple 22 having a port 23, the inner end of which is preferably larger than the outer end, to accommodate the inner end of the light link 24 which is pivoted at 25 in the enlarged end of port 23, so as to vibrate, the other end of the link being pivotally connected at 26 to a float 27 which serves to support the vibrator 24: above the normal level of oil, a wick 28 is connected in any suitable manner so that one end will move or rise and fall with the vibrator, the other end of the wick extending through the port 23. When the machine is in operation, vibration of the link 24 and float 27 will cause the float to efiect more or less splashing of the oil in. reservoir 10 and some of the oil will be thereby dashed onto the. vibrator and its wick 28 and then by capillary attraction feed to the place needing lubrication. The only reason for having the wick 28 extend so far down as shown in Fig. 6 is to increase the amount of oil that will be carried up by capillary attraction. The vibrator 24 alone would serve for some purposes, as even-a metal link will transmit some oil. By extending the wick 28 well down and nearly to the float to catch someof the oil splashed by the float, there will be a greater amount of oil supplied, as above stated.

This application is a substitute for and continuation of my prior application Serial No. 126,415, filed October 18th, 1916.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. An automatic oiler having a reservoir provided with an outflow duct, a wick in said duct, a guide adjacent the inner end of the duct, a wick having its upper end ad acent the other end of the guide, and a roller on said guide and free to be vibrated back and forth between the said wicks.

2. An automatic oiler comprising a reservoir having a horizontal guide in its upper portion, a wick leading from the reservoir to one end of the guide, an outflow wick leading from the other end of the guide, and a roller free to vibrate on the guide between the wicks.

3. An automatic oiler having a reservoir,

provided with an outflow duct leading from its upper portion whereby oil in the lower portion of the reservoir cannot escape through said duct under normal stationary conditions. a wick for transmitting oil through said duct by capillary attraction, said wick bein z'above the normal level of oil in the re r, a vibrator free to be moved by the ar ng resulting from the operation of thegfmachine carrying the oiler, means for supporting the vibrator above said normal level of oil, and means for supplying limited quantities of oil to said vibrator for transmission by the vibrator to the wick.

4:. An automatic oiler having a reservoir and two spaced wicks, one of said wicks being in position to take oil direct from the supply in the reservoir and the other wick being elevated and in position to deliver oil, and a vibrator operated solely by the bodily movement of the oiler to transfer oil from one wick to the other.

5. An automatic oiler having a reservoir, a nipple extending laterally from one side thereof and adapted to be secured to a part having a passagetherethrough, a guide extending transversely of the reservoir opposite the inner end of said nipple, a capillary device for raising oil from the lower portion of said reservoir to the level of said guide, and a carrier movable back and forth along said guide from said capillary device to said passage.

6. An automatic oiler having a reservoir, a nipple extendin'g laterally from one side thereof and adapted to be secured to a part to which oil is to be delivered, said nipple having a passage therethrough, a guide extending transversely of the reservoir opposite the inner end of said nipple, a capillary device for raising oil from the lower portion of said reservoir to the level of said guide, and a carrier movable back and forth along said guide from said capillary device to said passage, the movement of sa1d guide being due solely to the bodily movement of said oiler and the part to which it is attached.

7. An automatic oiler having a reservoir, a horizontal guide therein above the normal level of the oil, a member mounted to roll oiled and thereby subjected to the jarring vibration or other similar movement of such -n1echanism, a pair. of Wicks one leading from the oil to a point above the normal 5 liquid level and the other leading to the exterior of said reservoir from a point'above said level, and a vibrator operating to transfer oil from ope Wick to the other, the movement of sziicl vibrator being imparted thereto solely by the bodily movement of said 1 mechanism. v

Signed at Boston, in the county of Sufi'olk and State of Massachusetts this eighteenth day of September, A. D. 1917 WILLIAM A. FREDERICK.