Improvements in or relating to the Lubrication of Shafting and other Machinery.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1890-Accepted, 28th June, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Lubrication of Shafting and
other Machinery.
I JÖRGEN JÖRGENSEN of No. 7 Paulinenalbee Hamburg in the Empire of
Germany Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
The object of this invention is to provide the shafting or other machinery of a
factory or of a steam vessel or other machinery with the necessary lubricators all
collected for convenience of control and operation in one place. The lubricators may
be at some distance from the journals or machine parts to be lubricated and suitably
arranged in sets at places which can be reached easily so that one can control their
correct and regular working in a proper fashion.
This invention is represented in the accompanying drawing in Fig. 1. Fig. 2
shows a single lubricator employed with the apparatus.
The lubricators A each of which has a tube e connecting it with the respective
journal n or machine part to be lubricated are arranged in this instance in a set I.
The lubricant is supplied to the lubricators A from a common central oil tank R,
the same being a pressure tank, which can be filled with oil at the supply funnel p.
After said tank is filled the supply cocks is closed. The tank is suitably provided
with a guage glass g¹ to show the quantity of oil therein.
The working of the lubricators takes place by introducing water under pressure
into the tank R. This water is taken from an elevated cistern P and passing to the
bottom of the tank R through the pipes & forces the oil out of the tank R as soon as
the oil can pass to the lubricators A by opening the cock 2. The cistern P should be
of such a size that the pressure upon the lubricant in the tank R may be considered
in practice as constant.
The lubricators may be conveniently provided with a glass tube / containing
water so that the oil drops passing through may be seen for controlling the
supply.
Fig. 2 shows such a lubricator which is of the known construction as regards its
main features. The oil passos from the tank R through the pipe v into the chamber a
which supplies the set of lubricators. Each lubricator may be brought into
communication with the oil supply at a by a valve and by this valve the working
of the apparatus A may be regulated.
The upper cock y is used to shut off the lubricating tube e from the respective
lubricator A when the apparatus is to be placed out of working.
To enable the channels and all the lubricating tubes of a set of lubricators to be
cleaned, the chamber may be provided with a cock o and a connecting pipe k by
which steam can be blown through the apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
An apparatus for the central or collective working of a number of lubricators,

page_text: consisting of a tank I which receives the lubricant, and which communicates with
a water pressure pipe & fed by the cistern P in combination with a collected set or
sots of lubricators in communication with said tank all by a common pipe or each by
a separate pipe said lubricators communicating by pipes with the respective journals
or machine parts to he lubricated.
Date this on any of May 1890.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Stroet, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.