US400761A - Lubricator - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

L., M. PLEISGHMANN.

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LAWRENCE lWI. FLEISCHMANN, OF I/VICHITA, KANSAS.

LUBRICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,761, dated April 2, 1889.

Application filed May 31, 1888. Serial No. 276,577. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE M. FLEIsoH- MANN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lubricators; an d I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to improvements in lubricators or devices for-holding and distributing lubricants on pistons and other movable parts of machinery, and it is more particularly adapted for oiling the pistons on locomotives and stationary engines.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lubricant-receptacle, showing the same applied to the gland of a locomotive. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the lines :1: 0c of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is an inverted View of the device as applied to the gland.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates what may be properly termed the bracket, which may be attached to a gland of a locomotive, having its lower end recessed to show a part of the hole for the piston, as shown at a.

B indicates the oil or lubricant receptacle, which is composed of a box or cup having a hinged cover, 6, to exclude dust and the like and prevent the lubricant from spilling. This receptacle is provided with a deep depending flange, O, which is slotted vertically for the greater portion of its length, as shown at d, and which is designed to permit of vertical adjustment, as will be presently explained.

The lubricant-receptacle is provided at a suitable point above the bottom or floor with two apertures, b.

D indicates a conveying-tube, the opposite ends of which are connected, respectively, with the apertures or ports bot the receptacle B, and the tube is carried in downward-loop form across the lower end of the slot d of the attaching flange 0, thereby serving as a means of preventing the receptacle from being lifted off of the bracket. This conveyingtube is provided at its lowest point and in the under side of the curve thereof with an aperture, f, more fully shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. It will thus be seen that as the oil or other lubricating material used passes from the receptacle through the tube D it will be discharged upon the piston or other device through the aperture f.

In applying this device to an engine or the like a hole is first formed in the bracket, as shown, for the passage of a bolt, E, receiving a nut at. its end. The opposite end of this bolt may be headed to receive a washer, as g, which engages the depending flange of the receptacle, so that the latter may move vertically and be secured in any desired position with respect to the bracket.

I attach importance to the fact that the receptacle is vertically adjustable, as it may be applied to a bracket, which may be attached to a gland of any size, and the device may be placed in position on machinery of various kinds and adapted to various positions.

In operation waste cotton or other similar material may be placed in the lubricant-re ceptacle, such as at present employed.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A lubricating device having the depending vertical flange slotted longitudinally, and the tube leading from the lubricant-holder and looped downwardly and across a slot of the flange and provided with an aperture at its lowest point, substantially as specified.

2. Alubricating device having the depending vertical flange slotted longitudinally, and the tube leading from the lubricant-holder and provided with an aperture at its lowest point, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aiflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

L. M. FLEISCHMANN. \Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. KETOHUM, A. J. KEToHUM.

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