US1296124A

US1296124A - Oil-reservoir for internal-combustion engines.

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Publication number: US1296124A
Application number: US19824717A
Authority: US
Inventors: Wesley W Schettler
Original assignee: FOOS GAS ENGINE Co
Current assignee: FOOS GAS ENGINE Co
Priority date: 1917-10-24
Filing date: 1917-10-24
Publication date: 1919-03-04
Anticipated expiration: 1936-03-04

Description

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. a, raie.

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To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WESLEY W. Seurin TLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springi'ield, in the county of Clark and VState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Reservoirs for Internal-Combustion Engines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in oiling devices for internal combustion engines, it more particularly relates to the arrangement of the oil supply for the engine.

The object of the invention is to provide an oil reservoir so located that the oil will be maintained in a freely flowing condition by the heat of the cooling water.

A further object of the invention is to provide an oil reservoir so located in the water reservoir as to not only furnish an adequate supply of oil but also to act as a deflector for the water during its circulation through the reservoir to prevent the same from splashing out of the supply opening.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of so much of an internal combustion engine and its water jacket and reservoir as is necessary to illustrate my improvements, my improved oil reservoir being shown applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of a portion ofhthe water reservoir and of the oil reservoir.

Fig. 3 is a front view in detail of the water reservoir showing the oil reservoir in dotted lines.

The engine which I have shown my invention applied to is of the horizontal stationary type, 1 representing the base upon which is mounted the crank case 2, having bearings for the crank shaft 3, which carries the fly wheels l (one only being shown in the present case) on the exterior of the casing, the crank shaft being connected in the usual way with the piston rod 5 of the piston 6.

The cylinder 7 is in the present case integral with the crank case and provided with the usualform of integral water jacket 8. The water reservoir which supplies water to the jacket is indicated by 10 and has an opening 9 in its top through which 'the water is supplied to the same. This water reservoir is in the present case locatedsubstantially above the crank case so as to furnish a better balance for the engine, the floor 11 of the reservoir separating the same from the interior of the crank case.

My improvement consists in locating in this water reservoir an oil reservoir 12. This oil reservoir is cast integral with the water reservoir and extends across the entire width of the same at the upper forward portion thereof, the rear wall of the oil reservoir being adjacent to and extending downwardly from the water supply opening 9. An opening extending into the upper part of the reservoir 12 and closed by a plug 13 is provided for replenishing the reservoir with oil and a suitable valve 14 of well known construction communicating with the lower portion of the oil reservoir is provided for conveying the oil to the parts to -be lubricated.

From the construction explained it will be seen that the oil in the oil reservoir will be kept in a heated condition by the water and by its peculiar location it also acts as a deiiector for the water to prevent the same from splashing out through the opening 9.

Further, the particular location of the oil reservoir is one where it will be brought into intimate contact with the water which is first heated so that the oil will be quickly brought to a condition to flow freely, the circulation of the water being upwardly along the forward wall of the water reservoir.

Having thus described my invention, I claim Vl. In an internal combustion engine, the combination, with a cylinder and its water jacket, of a water reservoir communicating with said jacket, and an integrally formed oil reservoir located in said water reservoir.

2. In an internal combustion engine, the combination, with a cylinder and its water jacket, of a water reservoir communicating with said acket, and an oil reservoir located .in said reservoir in the path of the water circulating from said reservoir and in proximity to said jacket.

3. In an internal combustion engine, the combination, with a cylinder and its water jacket, of a water reservoir communicating with said water jacket, and an oil reservoir in said water reservoir formed integrally therewith, said oil reservoir extending across the upper forward portion of said water reservoir.

4. In an internal combustion engine, the Voir in proximity to said opening to aciy as Combination, with a cylinder and its Waiter ag deector for the Water.

jacket, of a Water -reservoir having an upper In'testimony whereof, I have hereunto set 10 supply opening, an oil reservoir located' in my hand-this 9th day .oi'October 1917.

said Water reservoir and foljmed integrally VVESLEY WV. SCHETTLER. therewith, said oil` reservoir located in the Witness:

upper` forward portionA of said Water reser- CHAS. I. WELCH.

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