IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES FOR LUBRICATING MAIN AND OTHER SHAFTING
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Monk, Mill Manager, and Joseph Anderton,
Engineer, both of Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR APPLIANCES FOR LUBRICATING MAIN
AND OTHER SHAFTING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Monk and Joseph
Anderton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th November
1880.
THOMAS MONK, Mill Manager, and JOSEPH ANDERTON, Engineer, both of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster.
APPLIANCES FOR LUBRICATING MAIN AND OTHER SHAFTING."
This Invention relates to improved construction of apparatus designed for self
acting, lubricating at intervals heavy shafting.
The apparatus comprises an oil or lubricating well or box having a dish and
aperture. Within the box is one or more (by preference two) spoons or ladles
hinged. There is also within the box or well a slotted lever operated by worm,
worm wheel, and disc and pin, so that at intervals the spoon, spoons, or ladles will
be raised and tilted, causing a discharge of oil to the dish, and through the aperture
to the pedestal or bearing of the shaft to be lubricated. The worm is worked by
lever, pawl, and catch wheel from any going part of the machine or from the shaft,
being lubricated by pully, or as is common to self-acting lubricators.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Monk and Joseph Anderton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th May 1881.
THOMAS MONK, Mill Manager, and JOSEPH ANDERTON, Engineer, both of
Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR
APPLIANCES FOR LUBRICATING MAIN OR OTHER SHAFTING."
This Invention relates to improved construction of apparatus designed for self-
acting, lubricating at intervals heavy shafting.

page_text: The apparatus comprises an oil or lubricant well or box having a dish and
aperture. Within the box is one or more (by preference two) spoons or ladels
hinged. There is also within the box or well a slotted lever operated by worm,
worm wheel, and disc and pin, so that at intervals the spoon, spoons, or ladels will
be raised and tilted, causing a discharge of oil to the dish, and through the aperture
to the pedestal or bearing of the shaft to be lubricated. The worm is worked by
lever, pawl, and catch wheel from any going part of the machine or from the
shaft being lubricated by pulley or as is common to self acting lubricators.
Such being the nature and object of this our said Invention, we will now
proceed to describe the same in detail, and in order that the same may be fully
understood, we have hereunto annexed a Sbeet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and
marked the same with figures of reference, in which
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section through line A, B, of Fig. 2, which is a plan
view; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation through line C, D, of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a
sectional elevation of a lubricator having single spoon only; Fig. 5 is a plan view
of same.
1 is an oil or lubricant well or box having a dish and apperture or
appertures 2, through which the oil passes, as shewn, by arrows to the shafting.
Within the box is a spoon or spoons, or ladels 3, working upon a hinge or stud 4.
5 is a lever to which the spoons are connected. There is a slot 6 in the said
lever, in which is received a pin 7 of a worm wheel 8, carried on stud 81, operated
by worm 9, by ratchet wheel 10), and catch lever 11. 12 is a stop catch wheel so
as to hold by catch 13 the ratchet wheel and shaft 10 during the back or return
motion of the lever 11, the said lever receiving its motion from the shaft being
lubricated, or any convenient going part for acting on the lever 11. The motion of
wheel 10, worm 9, and worm wheel 8 causes at each revolution of the worm
wheel its pin 7 to impart to the lever 5 and to the spoon or spoons 3 a rising and
falling motion, the lifting motion tilting the oil out of the spoon 3 by way of the
groove 14, the oil to the apperture 2, and thence forward to the shaft or pedestal
to be lubricated, this dipping and tilting motion being repeated at each revolution
of the wheel 8, the well or box 1 usually stands in a dish 15, the oil for the
aperture 2 passes by groove to the pipes 16, which are received in the holes of
the cap of the pedestal, and serve to hold the lubricator in position. A pipe or
pipes 17 is employed as a means of passing water to the shaft when from any
cause that latter becomes heated without the necessity of removing the oil or the
lubricator.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this our said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, we would have it understood that we claim as our
Invention,―
The combination and arrangement of the parts of the apparatus for purpose
described comprising oil well, or box spoon, or ladles, operated by the worm wheel
and worm, and constructed in manner and substantially as hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Monk and Joseph Anderton, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth day of May, in the year
of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
THOMAS MONK.
(L.S.)
JOSEPH ANDERTON. (L.S.)