US276068A - Lubricator - Google Patents

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UNrTnn STATES PATENT kTirreno WILLIAM I?. PHILLIPS, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LUBRICATOR.

`SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,068, dated April 17', 1883.

Application tiled February 13, 1383. (No model.) Y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. PHILLIPS, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a cerv tain new and useful Improvement in Lubricators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specifi-cation, in explaining its nature, in

Io Which- Figure 1 is a view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of a lnbricator having my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation, the lubrieator being turned from the position shown in Fig. l to represent the sight feed, and having a portion of the water-column pipe broken out to show the construction beyond.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a cup, chamber, or reservoir; B, the standard supporting the same,and preferably east therewith, and having the screw-thread b, whereby it is attached to any desirable part of the boiler or engine. This standard or port B has the passage b', which is connected at its lower end with a steam passage or chamber. Leading from the standard is the pipe O,which has the passage c. This pipe C connects with the vertical pipe D, and the passage cin said pipe C forms the communication between the steamchamber b in the standard B and the pipe D. This pipe D, by means of the cross-connection d, is attached to the cup or reservoir A, and the passage in said pipe is controlled by means of the valve d. This arrangement of the piping C D forms a condensing apparatus, the steam gradually cooling in its passage through the pipe C, and the pipe D being filled or partially tilled with water, which enters the chamber A therefrom as rapidly as the valve d permits it. Extending from the upper portion of the chamber A, or from the neck c thereof', is the horizontal pipe c. This pipe, at its outer end, has a controlling-valve, e', which has a downwardly-projectingextension,e2. Between this extension and the upwardly-extending portion e3 of the cross-pipe e is the sight feed pipe or chamber E, which is secured in place between the extensions cz c3 in any desirable way. The passage in the pipe e4 opens into 5o the passage b' in the standard B, and there is a teat or nozzle, e5, in the sight feed chamber E, which forms a continuation of the passage in the valve-extension e2. The neck c has an opening through which lubricant is introduced into the chamber A, which is closed by the screw plug or cap c, and there is additionally a cock, c2, by which the cup may be drained.

In operation the chamberA is filled with oil or other liquid lubricant of a similar nature. The steam enters the passage or chamber b 6o through the passage o and condenses in the pipe I), and the water therefrom enters the chamber A, raising the oil and causing it to dow out ot' the chamber through the pipe e, through the transparent chamber or, pipe E, into the passage b. Either the valve d or the Valve e', or both, may be used for regulating the rate of feed. There is no valve below the nozzle or teat e5 in the sight feed chamber or tube, and the oil drops directly into the steam- 7a passage in the tube or chamber E, a cross-pipe, e4, connecting directly with the chamber or passage b.

The invention is an improvement upon that described in my pending application filed November 20,18S2,and allowed January 9, 1883; and it varies therefrom in respect to the location of the sight feed chamber and the variation in construction necessary for obtaining such change.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. In a lubricator, the combination of the oil cup or reservoir A, the vertical standard 8 5 or pipe B, having the steam-passage l1', the steam-supply pipe and condensing-tube connecting said passage with the oil cup or reservoir, substantially as indicated, the sight feed chamber E, connected with the oil-chamber 9ov and with the vertical pipe or standard B, as described, and the valves d c', or either et' them, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a lubrieator, the combination of an 95 oil-reservoir and means for forcing oil therefrom, substantially as specified, a sight feed chamber arranged at one side of the oil-chamber, and connected at its top with the top of the oil-chamber, and opening at its bottom roo into a horizontal passage leading to a vertical oil-cond uctin g and steam-supply pipe, a standard, B, and means for regulating the rate of feed ofthe oil through the sight feed chamber, whereby oil is fed from the reservoir into a Vtnesses: transparent chamber filled 0r partially filled F. F. RAYMOND, 2d,

with steam, and from thence to avertical conl BOWDOIN S. PARKER.

ducting-passage, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

7. P. PHILLIPS.

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