A NEW OR IMPROVED CUP OR APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND SUPPLYING OIL FOR LUBRICATING PURPOSES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of Robert-
son, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED CUP OR
APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND SUPPLYING OIL FOR LUBRICATING PURPOSES."
- A communication from abroad by Victor Lieuvain, of Rouen,
France.
Scaled the 5th March 1867, and dated the 8th September 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th September 1866.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED CUP OR
APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND SUPPLYING OIL FOR LUBRICATING PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists of a pneumatic oil cup or apparatus constructed
and acting as hereafter described. The apparatus is composed of an oil
reservoir of glass or other suitable material formed with a neck, the aperture
of which is closed by a hollow stopper. The stopper receives a moderator
tube of copper or other material, conical internally; inside this tube au iror
or other metal rod is free to move, and the oil descends along this rod.
small projection in the interior of the tube serves as a support to the rod, an

page_text: prevents it coming entirely out of the tube, so that it may always be in contact
with the oil. This projection prevents the oil descending when the rod is
not actuated by a vibratory movement which facilitates the descent of the oil.
I employ by preference a stopper of wood because it allows the glass to
dilate or contract, and is not liable to break the glass like a metal stopper.
Sometimes I employ more than one rod, say threc, each free to move in a
small tube, which fulfils the function of the projection before named. The
small tubes are united in a main tube which has an orifice in the interior of
the reservoir for the passage of the oil to the rods. It is surmounted with a
wooden stopper inside the reservoir, which stopper is provided with an orifice.
The main tube passes through a wooden stopper in the neck of the reservoir.
These oil cups or apparatus are employed as follows:-The cup is placed
neck downwards, the rod then descends in the tube to serve as a conductor
to the oil, the rod is then put in motion and the slight oscillation of the rod
frees the oil in proportion to the speed of oscillation. When the movement
ceases the column of air drives back the oil to the bottom of the moderator
tube and the apparatus stops working. If the supply of oil is too large
a larger rod may be substituted for that in the tube. The rod or rods
may receive the vibratory or oscillating movement from the machine to be
lubricated or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th March 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, 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

page_text: Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED CUP OR APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND SUPPLYING OIL FOR
LUBRICATING PURPOSES," (communicated to me from abroad by Victor Licuvain,
of Rouen, France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, 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 Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention consists of a pucumatic oil cup or apparatus constructed and
acting as hereafter described.
The apparatus is composed of an oil reservoir of glass or other suitable
material, as represented at a in elevation, partly in section, in Figure 1,
formed with a neck, the aperture of which is closed by a hollow stopper b.
The stopper receives a moderator tube c, of copper or other material, conical
internally; inside this tube an iron or other metal rod d is free to move, and
the oil descends along this rod. A small projection o in the interior of the
tube c serves as a support to the rod d, and prevents it coming entirely out
of the tube, so that it may always be in contact with the oil. This projection o
prevents the oil descending when the rod d is not actuated by a vibratory
movement which facilitates the descent of the oil.
I employ by preference a stopper of wood because it allows the glass to
dilate or contract, and is not liable to break the glass like a metal stopper.
Sometimes I employ more than one rod, say three, as represented in Figure 2,
cach free to move in a small tube 8, which fulfils the function of the pro-
jection o before named. The small tubes & are united in a main tube f, which
has an orifice 7 in the interior of the reservoir for the passage of the oil to
the rods d. It is surmounted with a wooden stopper h inside the reservoir,
which stopper is provided with an orifice i; the main tube f passes through
a wooden stopper k in the neck of the reservoir. These oil cups or apparatus
are employed as follows:-The cup is placed neck downwards, the rod then
descends in the tube to serve as a conductor to the oil, the rod is next put in
motion, and the slight oscillation of the rod frees the oil in proportion to the

page_text: speed of oscillation. When the movement ceases the column of air drives
back the oil to the bottom of the moderator tube and the apparatus stops
working. If the supply of oil is too large a larger rod may be substituted
for that in the tube. The rod or rods may receive the vibratory or oscillating
movement from the machine to be lubricated or otherwise.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, con-
structing cups or apparatus for containing and supplying oil for lubricating
purposes, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.