US472269A

US472269A - Spindle-lubricator

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Publication number: US472269A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-04-05
Anticipated expiration: 1909-04-05

Description

(.N Model.)

R. B. PARKER. SPINDLEA LUBRIGATOR.

Patented Apr. 5, v1892.

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UNITED STATES ATENT Brion SPINDLE-LUBRICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 472,269, dated April 5, 1892. Application filed July 16, 18.90. Serial No. 358,938. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, RIENZI B. PARKER, of Vernon, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spindle-Lubricators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription,whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of my inventionis to provide an apparatusby means of which allof thespindles on a spinning or double frame or like machine may be supplied with oil from a common source of supply, the whole being arranged so that the actual condition of the frame, so far as the lubrication of the spindles is concerned, may be ascertained at a glance by the foreman or Overseer.

My invention consists in the combination of the several parts making up the apparatus as a whole, as more particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a view in vertical central section of the rail of a spinning-frame and the attached oiling device. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same with the cover of the oil-reservoir removed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter d. denotes a spindle that may be of any ordinary construction, such as is used on a spinning-frame; b, the spindle-rail in which the spindle is supported, and c the hollow spindle-bearing. In the lower end of this spindie-bearing is attached a pipe cl, that communicates with the oil-supply pipe e, that eX- tends along the Whole length of the frame, preferably directly below the spindle-bearings. At one end of this oil-supply pipe there is connected at a suitable height above the rail an oil-reservoir f, provided with a cover f and at the bottom an o-utlet g, in which there is preferably arranged a stopcock g. At a convenient point in the line of the oil-supply pipe, and preferably adjacent to the reservoir, there is provideda standing pipe h, a portion of which-that above the level of the rail b-is of glass, and this stand pipe rises directly from the oil-supply pipe, with which it communicates. There is a strainer arranged in the bottom of the oil-reservoir, and for convenience a short spout is provided in vleading therefrom and having the cover, through which oil, if required, may be poured into the reservoir without removing the cover, but by simply taking a plug out of the spout. This means of access is also provided with a screen.

At a convenient place, preferably the lowest point or at the eXtreme end in the length of the oil-supplypipe, there is provided a blowoff cock rl, through which the pipe may be drained either for purposes of cleaning or for taking `down the frame or a spindle for repairs.

The operation of my apparatus is as follows: The parts having been connected up substantially as represented in the dawings, oil is poured into the reservoir, from which it iiows into the oil-supply pipe, filling the same and rising therefrom into the spindle-bearings to a height determined by the height of the body of oil in the reservoir, and this usuallyto a level that insures the perfect lubrication of the spindle. The level at'which the oil stands can be determined at a glance from thesight-glass 72,', that forms the upper part of the stand-pipe.

. I claim as my invention-- l. In combination with a series of spindle-h bearings, an oil-reservoir, an oil-supply pipe tubular connections with the several spindlebearings, and the sight-glass located on the supply-pipe and rising to a height above the level of the spindle bearings, all substantially` as described.

2. In combination with a spindle-rail, a plural number of spindles with appurtenant spinlle-bearings, an oil-reservoirlocated above the level of the rail and supplied with a strainer, the oil-supply pipe leading from the oil-reservoir and extending below the level of the spindle-bearings and the oil-supply pipe, the sight-glass rising from the oil-supply tube and projecting above the level of the spindlebearings, the stop-cock in the oil-supply tube,

and the blow-off cock, all substantially as described.

RIENZI B. PARKER. Witnesses:

CHAS. L. BURDETT, A. B. JENKINS.