US145834A - Improvement in car-axle lubricators - Google Patents

Description

l. E. BER N G.

Car-Axle Luhrisators.-

Patented Dec.23,1873.

Ata'orneys;

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JAMES E. BERING, 'OF NEIVBURG, NEIV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-AXLE LUBR|CATORS.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.145,834, dated December 23,1873; application filed August 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, J AnEs EDWARD BERING, of Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Oar-Axle Lubricator; and I do here- .by declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification. I

The invention relates to means for lubricating thoroughly, uniformly, and cheaply all the parts of a car-axle journal. It consists in peculiar devices, by which the surface of flange and of the body of journal are automatically provided with a graduated supply of oil or lubricating substance, as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the end of a car-axle. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through line 00 a2. Fig.3 is a side elevation of a modification.

A represents the caraxle, having the journal a and end flange a. To the end of journal a I fixedly and radially attach a plate, B, having the curved end-open tube 0, or open channel-way 0. As the axle revolves, this is caused to revolve in an oil-chamber and receive the oil as it passes therethrough, the oil .fiowing backward as the tube rises, and finally discharging itself upon the flange. The oil thus keeps the flange in a condition to create as little friction as possible, While some then works its Way down on the front of the journal. D is a disk, preferably placed against the middle of journal at, and revolving in. oil. The oil thus being supplied is carried round by the journal, and brought into contact with a point, e, of bearing E, Which is upwardly inclined toward front and rear at 6 6 This serves to conduct the oil Where it will lubricate the whole of the journal.

The disk D may be placed at the end of axle, and in that case the inclined excision of the bearing will be 011 a long incline, as shown at 6 extending obliquely or diagonally across the journal.

These sloped bearings E may be used in connection with any means for supplying oil to the axle, and I therefore do not design to confine myself to disks or to any particular device for that purpose.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. The curved tube 0, attached to the end of journal a, combined as and for the purpose described.

2. The bearing E, having one or more slopes, e 6 6 in combination With the disk I), in the manner and for the purpose described.

JAMES EDWARD BERING;

WVitnesses JOHN B. KERR, J AS. W. MILLER.

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