AN IMPROVED LUBRICATOR.
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hutton, of Palace Road, Lambeth, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED LUBRICATOR.'
Sealed the 28th February 1860, and dated the 30th August 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hutton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th
August 1859.
I, HENRY HUTTON, of Palace Road, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
LUBRICATOR," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed more particularly for engines used for imparting
motion to screw propellers, but is also applicable to other mechanism of a
similar character thereto. The improvement consists, first, in employing
a brush or bundle of bristles or hair instead of worsted, cotton,. or other.
vegetable filaments usually employed to hold the lubricant; and secondly,
in filtering the oil or lubricating fluid in its passage from the reservoir, which
which contains the same previous to its descending on to the aforesaid brush.
The under side of the reservoir is fitted with a cock to regulate the flow of oil,
and the brush or bristles are capable of being raised or lowered at will, so as to
allow the part which is to be lubricated to lick therefrom just as much as is
necessary, and thus avoid waste. The lubricator may be fixed to any con-

page_text: venient part of the framing of the engine, so that as the crank rotates a licker
connected to the journal thereof and the connecting rod at each rotation licks
a certain quantity of oil from the aforesaid brush, and conveys it to the part
which it is desired to lubricate.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Hutton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th February 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
HUTTON, of Palace Road, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give, and grant unto
me, the said Henry Hutton,, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Hutton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Hutton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should: at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED LUBRICATOR," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henry Hutton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one, of their hands and seals,, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what, manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within, six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters. Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Hutton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by, the following.
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention is. designed more particularly for engines used for imparting.
motion to screw propellers, but is also. applicable to other mechanism of a
similar character thereto. The improvement consists, first,, in employing a
brush or bundle of bristles or hair instead of worsted, cotton, or other
vegetable filaments usually employed to hold the lubricant; and secondly, in

page_text: filtering the oil or lubricating fluid in its passage from the reservoir which
contains the same previous to its descending on to the aforesaid brush. The
under side of the reservoir is fitted with a cock to regulate the flow of oil,
and the brush or bristles are capable of being raised or lowered at will, so as
to allow the part which is to be lubricated to lick therefrom just as much as
is necessary, and thus avoid waste. The lubricator may be fixed to any con-
venient part of the framing of the engine, so that as the crank rotates a licker
connected to the journal thereof and the connecting rod at each rotation licks
a certain quantity of oil from the aforesaid brush and conveys it to the
part which it is desired to lubricate.
In order to explain this Invention' as completely as possible, I now proceed
to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved lubricator complete; Figure 2, a
top plan view thereof; Figure 3, a transverse and vertical section through the
line A, B, at Figures 1 and 2; Figure 4 is another vertical section of the
lubricator, shewing the whole of the principal parts in section; Figures 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, are detached portions of the lubricator, said parts being
herein-after particularly described and referred to. At each of the foregoing
Figures similar letters of reference are employed to denote corresponding parts,
in so far as such parts appear or can be seen at each of such said Figures
respectively. A, A', are castings of brass or gun metal; the part A' is formed
hollow, and screws into the lower part A, which is formed open or skeleton,
and with a boss at B, through which a hole is made, contracted at bottom as
exhibited at a, Figures 3 and 4. The larger part of said hole has a female
thread or screw formed therein, into which fits a male screw C. This screw
has a hole formed through the centre thereof, with a piece D across the top
thereof, as at Figure 5. E is a bunch or bundle of fine hair or bristles passed
over the piece D, and through the contracted hole a, so as to protrude through
the same; G is a jam nut for tightening the screw C, and bunch of bristles E,
in any desired position, so as to protrude more or less through the hole a. The
5 boss B has a thread cut around the same, on which fits a screw nut H for
adjusting or fixing the lubricator between the parts b, b, to a bracket fixed on
to the framing of the engine to which the lubricator is intended to be applied.
I is a cock communicating with the interior of the hollow reservoir A¹; K is

page_text: the lid or cover of the reservoir A¹; L is a receptacle to hold a piece of sponge
or other filtering substance through which the oil in the reservoir passes.
In constructing lubricators intended for very large engines, say from 300 to
500 horses' power, I then propose to construct the part which holds the bristles
in the manner exhibited at Figure 6, where c marks a small tube, the use of
which is to conduct the oil from the reservoir A' to the bristles E; to the centre
of the brush, I also prefer to use a jam nut of the construction exhibited at
Figures 4 and 7; for small lubricators I make the jam nut with a milled
head, as at Figures 8.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of the said
Invention of "An Improved Lubricator," together with the best means I am
acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark in
conclusion, that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in and I claim, an
improved lubricator of the construction above described and represented, and
especially I claim the use of hair or bristles in the construction of lubricators
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Hutton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
HENRY HUTTON.
(L.S.)