US2123656A - Combination dispensing nozzle and meter - Google Patents

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J. c. MILLER 2,123,656

COMBINATION DISPENSING NOZZLE AND METER Filed July 6, 1936 July 12, 938

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Ld /z ATTORN EY A g y INVENQR Q f m n Patented July 12, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFlcE 2,123,656 v COMBINATION DISPENSING NOZZLE AND METER Jacob C. Miller, Milwaukee, Wis., assigner to Badger Meter Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of Wisconsin Application July 6, 1936, Serial No. 89,003 s claims. (cil zei- 95) Serial No. 50,143 led November 16, 1935, entitled- Lubricant metering and dispensing.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a, particular arrangement of the nozzle with respect to the meter casing to facilitate the l0 use of the device in reaching otherwise inaccessible locations.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view principally in an axial section and partially in side elevation showing my improved device.

Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof.

Like parts are identifledby the same reference characters throughout the several views.

The device includes a casing or barrel 3 which is internally shouldered at 4, and is integrally closed at one end 5. Adjacent the closed end there is an'integral extension from the side of the barrel in the form of a pistol grip handle 6 having an internal passage 'I communicating with the interior of the barrel 'and provided at 8 with a hose coupling. Within the passage is a plug 9 providing a valve seat engaged by the valve I 0 under compression of the combination spring and-strainer I I. 'Ihe lever I2 pivotedv to the handle immediately adjacent the barrel engages the valve stem to open the valve against the compression of the spring II Within the barrel I provide a conventional casing I5 containing the usual fluid operated motor I 6 which drives a register geartrain I'I to transmit motion to an indicator shaft I8. This shaft passes through the closed end 5 ofthe barrel and frictionally drives an indicator I9 with reference to an interchangeable diall 20.

The register gear train I'l is mounted in a frame which comprises two plates 2| and 22, the former being the bottom of a cup-shaped member 23 which is engaged by the motor casing 45 I5 to hold it against the shoulder 4. The plates 2| and 22-have registering apertures 24 through l which the grease or other material to be metered and dispensed passes.

The motor casing I 5 and the register gear train 50 Yplug 25 which is Xed in an open end of the barrel 3. An elbow fitting 26 has itsl leg portion 21 extended into the plug 25 and provided with a bushing member 28 swiveled in the plug and shouldered to retain the packing 2-9 which the plug carries. .A retaining ring 30 screwed to the plug engages the end of bushing 28 to maintain the parts in assembly while permitting the elbow frame are held in place by the screw threaded.

fitting 2s robe revolved about the axis of the barrel to the position shown in dotted lines.

The other leg portion 32 of the elbow fitting is .internally threaded to receive a packing gland 33 within which the dispensing nozzle 35 is swiveled. A head 36 at the end 'of the nozzle bears against an internal shoulder ofthe elbow iitting and supports the packing 31. The nozzle has a terminal portionv 38 preferably curved for somewhat more than ninety degrees asshown, and this terminal portion may be swung about the axis o f leg 32 of the elbow tting to various rotative positions, one of which is illustrated in dotted lines.

The particular disposition and mounting of the nozzle, the elbow fitting, and the barrel with reference to each other, is regarded as important in permitting the operator of the device to obtain access to apertures requiringv lubrication and whichwould otherwise be inaccessible.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, the` combination with a barrel and shouldered means at the end thereof providing a bearing, of a fitting provided with a bushing connected to the tting and fitted to said bearing and having a complementary shoulder, packing conned between said shoulders, and a retaining nut engaging said bushing and in threaded connection with the barrel.

2. In a device of the character described, the 'combination with a barrel, an elbow provided with means maintaining it in swiveledvconnection with the end of the barrel, and a nozzle provided with means maintaining it in swiveled connection with the elbow, of a handle projecting laterally from the barrel and provided with a supply passage communicating through the barrel and the elbow with the nozzle, a valvein the handle and a valve lever connected with the handle and operatively engaging'the valve for theopening thereof.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a barrel, an elbow provided with means maintaining it in swiveled connection with the end of the barrel, and a nozzle provided with means maintaining it in swiveled connec cator.

v- JACOB C. MILLER.

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