US763693A - Apparatus for lubricating cars. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JUNE za, 1904. wpJ. RAUM. APPARATUS EUR LUBRICATING CARS.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 23. 1903.

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Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. RAUM, OF SYRAGUSE, NEI/V YORK.

APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming partrof Letters Patent No. 763,693,` dated June 28, 1904.

Application filed October 23, 1903. Serial No. 178,294. (No model.)

To nfl/Z 11171/0711/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM J. RAUM, aciti- Zen of the United States, anda .resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Lubricating Cars, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to equip railway-cars with simple and eiicient' means for applying lubricant in equal quantities and si-Y multaneously to all the journals of the cartruck and to avoid the delay and eXtra labor of opening the journal-boxes and also guard against waste of lubricant; and to that end the inyention consists in the novel construction and combination of the component parts of the lubricating apparatus hereinafter described and as illustrated in the annexed drawings` 1n which- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic end View of 4a railroad-car equipped with my'invention. Fig. 2 is a side View of that portion of the car to which my invention is applied. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section o f the lubricantdistributing case. Fig. 4. is a detail View of the application of the lubricant-ducts to the -iournal-boXes of the car.

A represents the car-body, which may be of any ordinary form now in use.

B denotes one of the car-trucks, which may also be of any well-known construction.

a a denote the journal-boxes or' the car. It

is attached to the reservoir for the purpose or' showing the supply of oil therein.

c represents the main lubricant-pipe, which leads from the reservoir to a lubricant-distributing case CZ, suitably secured to the car beneath the body A. A stop-cock or suitable valve e is connected to the main pipe c for controlling the iiow of lubricant. The interior of the distributing-cased is provided with walls ff, which meet central under the inlet of the main pipe c and are inclined to the bottom of opposite sides of the case, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. rIhe aforesaid arrangement of the wallsff causes the inflowing lubricating-oil to be equally divided and conducted in separate streams to opposite sides of the case CZ. To the bottom parts of these walls are attached the ducts /t L, which lead to the journal-boxes a a at opposite sides of the truck and terminate in branch ducts entering the journal-box in front and rear of the journals] and supply the oil thereto.

By the use of the described lubricating apparatus a person can supply the journal-boxes with lubricant by merely turning the valve e to allow the lubricant to flow from the reservoir R through the main duct c to the distribuiting-cased, which delivers the oil in equal quantities to the ducts 7i L, which convey the oil to the journal-boxes t a. By observing the gage b the person in charge can readily note thev amount of lubricant supplied to the journal-boxes, and by closing the valve e at the proper time overfiow and waste of lubricant from the journal-boxes is obviated.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination with a railway-car, of a lubricant-reservoir attached to said car, amain pipe leading from said reservoir, a distributing-case connected to said pipe, ducts leading from said case to the journalboXes, there being walls in said distributing-case dividing the inflowing lubricant into separate streams of equal volumes and conducting the same to the aforesaid ducts as set forth.

WILLIAM J. RAUM.

Witnesses:

J. J. LAAss, CHARLES S. KENT.

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