US2063782A

US2063782A - Means for cooling the lubricating oil in internal combustion engines

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Publication number: US2063782A
Application number: US46405A
Authority: US
Inventors: James L Barnes
Original assignee: THEODORE G GRIEDER
Current assignee: THEODORE G GRIEDER
Priority date: 1935-10-23
Filing date: 1935-10-23
Publication date: 1936-12-08
Anticipated expiration: 1953-12-08

Description

J. L. BARNES MEANS FOR COOLING THE LUBRICATING OIL 1N INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES EIEJ,

Filed 0st. 23, 1955 3 Sheets-Sheet l .5 TTORHE'YS.

Dec. 8, 1936.

J. L. BARNES MEANS FOR COOLING THE LUBRICATING OIL IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES Filed 00 23, 1935 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 .HTTORHEYS.

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Patented Dec. 8, 1936 MEANS FOR COOLING THE LUBRICATING OIL IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES James L. Barnes, Winslow, Ariz., assignor of onehalf to Theodore G. Grieder, Winslow, Ariz.

Application October 23, 1935, Serial No. 46,405

3 Claims. (Cl. 123-196) This invention relates to improvements in passes through pipes 12 into pan 1 and is withmeans for cooling the lubricating oil of an indrawn through the top of pan through pipe [4 to ternal combustion engine, and contemplates the the compressor and thence to the condenser I! use of a refrigerant for this purpose. to complete the cycle. It is obvious that any The principal object of this invention is to type of refrigerant may be employed which will 5 provide means for dissipating the heat of the oil perform the desired function. in the crank case, oil reservoir, or oil line of an It is apparent that a unit of this type would internal combustion engine thereby maintaining require very little power and that by properly the proper viscosity of the oil. cooling the oil its viscosity would remain sufii- A further object of the invention is to pron ly heavy to p v nt the il le kin p the i0 duce a device of this character which may be piston rings and thus saving in oil consumption. used in the ordinary engine without materially In hot climates the oil often becomes very thin altering its construction. and due to the excessive heat of the engine this A further object is to produce a device of this thin oil burns and does not properly lubricate. character which is economical to manufacture, It is to avoid such difficulties that I have devised 3.5

install and operate. my invention.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent t iS to be unde stood t at t e o o y i during the course of the following description. vention herewith shown and described is to be In the accompanying drawings forming a part taken as a preferred example of the same and of this specification and in which like numerals that various changes relative to the material, are employed to designate like parts throughout SIZ ap and arrangement of parts and vath same, rious changes relative to the location or place- Fig. 1 is a side elevation of an engine having ment of the c lin unit m y be re orted to i my i ti applied th r t without departing from the spirit of the inven- 2 Fig. 2 is an end elevation of my invention n r th ope of th u i ined l im a: showing outline of a crank case in broken lines; av thus e c ed my invention, I

Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan view looking C a mii t th crank case of th engine; 1. An oil cooler for an internal combustion Fi 4 i id l ti of Fig 3; engine comprising a cooling pan having a curved 30 Fig, 5 i a, b tt plan vi w f th angling upper surface, a flat lower surface, said lower so plate; surface having orifices being connected by Fig, 6 is a id 1 ati n of manifold; curved pipes and a manifold connecting said Fig. '7 is an end elevation of the unit in as- Curved p pe sembling position, and 2. An oil cooler for an internal combustion en- Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of the cooling gine comprising a cooling pan having a curved 35 tubes, upper surface and a fiat lower surface, said pan In the accompanying drawings wherein for being hollow, a plurality of pipes connected to the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred the bottom of said pan, and a manifold conembodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 necting said pipes, means for delivering a cooldesignates the engine as a whole having an oil ing medium to said manifold thence through 40 sump 6 in the bottom of the crank case. It is said pipes into said pan to be withdrawn through in this oil sump that I place one or more cooling an opening in the top of said pan.

units, which units consist of a hollow cooling pan 3. A cooler for oil in an internal combustion I having a curved upper surface 8 and a flat engine including a hollow pan, a plurality of bottom surface 9. The bottom surface is drilled depending pipes each having its opposite ends 45 so as to provide openings H of any desired numconnected to said pan and adjacent its opposite ber. These openings are on opposite sides of longitudinal margins, and a manifold connectthe pan and are connected together by curved ing the medial portion of each of said pipes copper tubes l2. Each of these tubes are conwhereby fluid entering said manifold may pass nected by a manifold l3, see Figs. 4 and 7. into and through said pipes thence into said pan 50 In Fig. 1 I have shown a pipe I6 leading from to be withdrawn through an opening in the top the condenser and expansion valve or liquid reof said pan. ceiver to the manifold l3, which refrigerant then JAMES L. BARNES.