US1596443A - Lubricator - Google Patents

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Aug. 17 1926. I 1596443 B. MONTOYA LUBRICATQR Filed Sept. 18, 1925 Inuentor enito mania w Patented Aug. 17, 192&

rren sures BENITO MONTOYA, OF LOS ANG-ELES, CALIFORNIA.

LUBRICA'I'OR.

Application filed. September 18, 1925. Serial No. 57,151.

My invention is in a lubricator adapted for loconotives and comprises forced feed the locomotive.

An object of my invention is to provide reservors for Oll having steam operated pistons for forcing the'oil from the reservoirs to lubricating appliances such as the,

flange oiler device and cylinder lubricating devices which are standard on locomotives.

In my invention I utilize a container having a pair of cylinders With pistons therein, each of the cylinders having a different type `of lubricatng oil and having pistons mounted in the cylinders with a steam connection whereby steam may be forced into the cylinders and force the oil outwardly; such oil being led by pipes to lubricating devices which are so designed that they can only hold a limited amount of oil.

Another feature of my invention is in passing the stean through the container to maintain the oil at proper temperature and fluidity with manually controlled valves positioned in a base plate of the container to govern the flow of steam.

Various other features of my' invention pertain to the details of construction of the container and oil cylinders.

My invention will be more readily understood from the following description and drawings, in which;

Figur-e l is an elevation of my oil reservoir container, indicating a system of steam piping leading thereto and a system of oil pipes leading therefrom to locomotive oiling appliances.

Fig. 2 is a. side view of Fig. 1 in the di-' rection of the arrow 2.

Fig. 3 is a top view of my reservoir con tainer taken in the direction of the arrow 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. t is a vertical longitudinal section of my reservoir container taken on the line lt of Fig. 3 in the direction of the arroWs, showing the oil cylinders.

Fi 5 is a horizontal cross section of F ig. e on the line 5-5 in the direction of th arrows.

Fig. 6 is a horizontal section of Fig. 4 on the line 6-6 in the direction of the arrows, indicating the oil cylinders.

Referring particularly to Figs. l and 2, my oil reservoir container is indicated generally by the numeral l; a standard fiange oiling device is designated by the numeral 2; a'cylinder valve lubricator by the numeral 3; a stean supply donie is designated by the numer-al' e, connected to the boiler 5. As the fiange oiler 2 and the valve cylnder lubricator 3, together with the steani dome do not form a definite feature of my invention, they will not be more fully described.

My oil reservoir container l is preferably for-med of a relatively large cast body 10 having a pair of oil cylinders ll and 12 formed at the lower end; these cylinders have an open base closed by a cover plate 13 secured by bolts ll to the metal structure of the cylinders. An oil reservoir 15 is constructed in the upper part of the container preferably by coring in the casting operation and is closed by a filler plug 16 and has an outlet tap 17 through which oil may be drawn to fill the oil cans utilized by the engine crew.

The steam Operating features of my oil reservoir comprises a'piston 20 in each of the cylinders ll and 12 each having a piston rod 21 extending upwardly into spring boxes 22, the latter being formed by coring the casting and the piston rods having heads 23. Compression springs 24 are housed in the spring boxes and are under compression between the piston rod heads 23 and the screw threaded plugs 25 closing the upper ends of the spring boxes.

Steam is fed under the pressure to the oil cylinders beneath the pistons by means of inlet oil pipes having valves 31 ducts 32 extending downwardly through the casting of the container and horizontal connections 33 leading into the steam chamber The stean has a passage 35 through the casting at the rim of the cylinders through an aperture 36 in the cover plate 13 and enters a T 37. This T leads to branch pipes 38, having globe valves 39, the latter having nipples 40 leading through the cover plate 13 to the lower side of each of the pistons 20. Drain cocks il are lil ewise provided in the cover plate 13 to allow drainage of the water condensed froni the steam. A stean blow ofi outlet is provided by a horizontal duet 42 from the steam chamber 34 to the vertical duct 43 which latter leads to a blow ofi pipe 44: controlled by the valve 45.

The oil is charged into the oil cylinders through similar plugs mounted in the reservoir casing above the cylinders and is fiange oiler 2 and-thepipe 52 to the cylinder 5 valve lubricator 3.

A pair of sight holes 54 are provided- With glass covers so that a, person may ascertain i' the oil cylinders contain oil.

The manner of .operation ofniy lubrica- 1 tor container is substantially as toiiows: 'It Wilibe understood :that before beginning a run on a locomotive that the reservoir `ivill be filled With oii through the plug` 16 and that the oil cylinders ll and 12 will be 15 filied'through the plugs 50, With the pistons "20 in their bottom position resting onthe cover plate lQ. As the oil inthe fiange oler` 2 and the vaive oilerS are used up the valve 39 may be opened to feed 'stean fromthe stea1nchamber84-to the base of either of the cylinders ll and l2,it being understood thatthe steani valve Bl Will normally be opened to allow stean to enter the `stearn chaniber -and to maintain the 'on at proper temperature.

My invention may 'be considerabiy changed in general Construction and indetail to suit it for--supplying oil to different ,types of l ubricating appiiances, such changes being within the scope of iny in- 'vention as expressedin the 'clains Having descrbed iny invention, What I claim is:

l.A '1ubricator reservoir coniprising 'an' integral bodystructure having a pluraiity oioil cylinders *Jorined therein, a cover piate for the-base of the cylinders, pistons in the cyinders, ineans to fill the cylinders With oil, a stoan' chanber in the body structure adjacentthe cylinders,*1neans 'or conducting steain through the body structure toandfron the steani chanber, and means for conductiiig steam 'from the steam chamber through the cover piate to' the base of the pistons.

52. A lubrcator rescrvoir -as 'claimed in ciain 1, having in addition a piurality of :bores in the body` structure above t he cyiinders forming spring boxes,piston rods conrod extending' through the' opening in the cored section, the piston rod havlng a head thereon, a spring in the c'ored section bearng against the'pston rod'headend said plug, means' to introduce oil into the 'cylinder, apipe leading through the cover plate to"flow 'steain into the c'yiinder below the piston, a pipe leading' froni the upper portion of the cylinder to a lubricating device, a steam chan'ber in the body structure adjacent the cyiinder and steain' ductsthrough the body structure- ;leading to the stea'in chainberand a stean' pip connected'to the stean 'chanber through the cover piate and to the pipe leading into the cylinder.

4. A' lubric'ator reservoir c omprising a container fol-med of a body structure having a reservor inits upper portion and a pair of oil cylinders in itslower portion, a cover plate closing the cylinders, a piston in each of the cylinders, means to introduce oil into the reservoir and thecylin ders, pipes conductng steam through' 'the cover piate into the c ylinders below the pistons,`pipes to discharge oil' froni'the cylinders to' lubricating devices, an outlet tap for oil ironi the reservoir, a'stean chanber in the'iower portion of the body structure between the cylinders, and duots conveying steam through the body structure to' the steain charnber and ironi the steain chaniber to the pipes leading through the cover piate.

In testimony Whereof I have signed my name to this specicaton.

-BE NITO MONTOYA.

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