US380436A

US380436A - Car-axle oiler

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Publication number: US380436A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-04-03
Anticipated expiration: 1905-04-03

Description

(No Model.)

E. HOUSEL.

GAR AXLE OLER.

No. 88o, 88. Patented Apr. 8, 1888;

Unirse Srarns PATENT Ottica.

ELMER HOUSEL, OF SUMMIT, OHIO.

CARAXLE OILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,436, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed January 27, 1853. Serial No. 262,094. (No model.)

1"0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, 'ELMER HoUsnL, a citizen of the United States, residing near Summit, in the county of Summit and State ot' Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gar-Axle Oilers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvenlents in car-axle oilers, and has for its object to oil the axle automatically, and to perform the work with great economy of time and oil; and it consists in the construction and novel con1- bination of parts hereinafter described, illus trated in the accompanying drawings, and

pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a top plan View of theoilerinplaceon the track and with the car thereon. Fig. 2 represents one of the axles of the cars, theend being scctioned to show the linchpin-opening and pin therein. Fig. 3 represents an elevation of the railway with the device attached. Fig. 4 represents an enlarged view of the brush in transverse section.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A des ignates a car having the axles B, which have their central portions, b, square, as shown, their journals b being of course cylindrical. In each journal is a vertical dainetrical opening, C, the lowerhalf of which is tapering, the upper half being of equal diameter throughout.

c is a tapering linchpin, which fits in the tapering part of said opening, and extends from onehalf to tiveeighths therebelow, without extending into the cylindrical part of the opening.

c is a screw-cap that engages in the internally-tapped upper end of said opening.

The railway is widened at two different places, D, and on opposite and at suitable points is provided with the curved guide-rail d inside and parallel to the curved main rail d.' on that side. There is also a straight main rail, d?, on that side,and the-wheels are guided into the straight rail dt or the curved rail d by a switch, d, of ordinary construction. On the opposite side ofthe track from each curved rail is the trough E, which is opposite, or nearly so, the central portion of said rail, and is adapted to hold oil.

Fis a brush having, preferably, four similar longitudinal wings,ff, which are equidistant and somewhat cylindrical. The said brush is made of rubber belting, and is covered with sorne suitable material to take the oil. The brush is journaled at f in the free end ofthe bar f2, the opposite end of which is pivoted to the horizontal arm of the uprightfrising by the side of the track.

G G are blocks standing adjacent to the track at points opposite the ends of the guard rails and on the opposite sides of the track therefrom, the blocks having the inclined upper edges, g, and the smooth metal plates g secured to said edges.

H H are wheels, each of which isjournaled in the block G near its highest end, and with its periphery projecting above said edge.

The operation of the oiling mechanism is as follows: As the car approaches the widened parts of the track and the linchpins travel over the inclined upper edges of the blocks G, the pins are raised by said edges till they are en tirely within the axle. The flanges of the wheels on one side are then directed upon the curved main rail at the widened portion ofthe track and the curved guiderail d moves the wheels on said main rail away from the block G on the opposite side of the track, and as the wheels on the same' side of the track as the block cannot movelaterally,being on a straight rail, the action of the widened portion of the track operates to draw the axle nearly out of the hub of the wheel, the iinchpin having been driven inwardby the edge of the block G. Then the axles are thus pulled nearly out from the hub, they pass over the brushes, which rotate against and oil them. Of course the track must be widened at two separate points on opposite sides, and there must be two brushes, as each brush can act only on one side. The plates g cause the linchpins to move without jar. The wheels H lift the axle, so that the hub rests on the upper portion of the axle. Should there then be a shoulder worn in the bottom of thelatter, as is often the case, it will not prevent the car from rolling easily, as the shoulder cannot catch. The axles being square centrally,are secured to the bottom of the car and do not rotate, the wheels turning on their journals.

ICO

Having described the invention, I claim- 1. The combination, with the axle secured to the bottom of the car so as not to rotate and having the openings in its journals, of the linchpins in and depending below said openings, the blocks with inclined upper edges, the oil -troughs and brushes, and means, substantially as described, whereby the linchpins are moved up and the journals pulled nearly from the hubs just before the said journals pass over the brushes, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the non-rotating axle having the vertical openings in itsjournals and the linehpinsin said openings, of the blocks and the plates secured on said blocks, substantially as specitied.

3. The combination, with the non-rotating axle having openings in its journals and the linchpins in and depending below said openings, of the blocks to move the linchpins completely within the corresponding openings, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the nonrotating axles having the openings in their journals and the linchpins, of the blocks with inclined upper edges, and the track having the curved main rails and curved guide-rails on the opposite sides from corresponding blocks, substantially as specified.

5. 'The combination, with the non-rotating axles having the openings in their ljournals and the linchpins, of the railway having the widened parts D, and provided at such parts with the main and guide rails, the blocks on the opposite sides of the track from said rails, the oil-troughs, and the depending brushes, substantially as specified.

6. `The combination, With the non-rotating axles having the vertical tapering openings in the journals and the tapering linchpins, of the blocks having inclined upper edges, the plates secured to said edges, and the wheels H, journaled upon the corresponding blocks near the top of the highest end thereof, substantially as specified.

7. The combination,with the axle B, having its central part square in transverse section and secured to the bottom ofthe car, and providedin itsjournals with the vertical openings C, having their upper halves of square diameter throughout and their lower halves tapering downward, the screw-caps c', engaging in the tapped upper orifices of the openings C, and the tapering linchpins c, fitting into the tapered portions of said openings and depending below the same, of the block having inclined edges and the plates secured to said