Improvements in Self-acting Apparatus for Oiling or Greasing Axles of Colliery and other similar Wagons.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Apparatus for Oiling or Greasing
Axles of Colliery and other similar Wagons.
1. JOHN LINDLEY of School House, 237 Manchester Road, Clifton near Man-
chester in the County of Lancaster, Foreman Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in self-acting apparatus for oiling or
greasing axles of colliery and other similar wagons and consists in providing one or
more oil or grease cisterns disposed between the permanent way rails. In each
cistern is pivoted a lever provided at one end with an adjustable or other oil or
grease cup or receiver. The lever is provided with a projection or arm against
which the axles of the colliery or other wagons operate in their passage over the
oil or grease cistern and depresses the lever with the oil or grease cup to charge
the latter from the cistern. Immediately the said projection or arm is released
from the axle by the travelling movement of the wagon the lever and oil or grease
cup is re-set by a weight, spring, or other equivalents, by which action the oil or
grease cup will be pressed against the axle between the bearing and the wheel or
in any other position according to the make or build of wagon.
The oil or grease cisterns may be constructed on the single or double principle,
in the former case they are disposed so that the axles on each side may be oiled or
greased separately.
Dated the 25th February 1892.
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self-acting Apparatus for Oiling or Greasing
Axles of Colliery and other similar Wagons.
1, JOHN LINDLEY of School House, 237 Manchester Road, Clifton near Man-
chester in the County of Lancaster, Foreman Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in self-acting apparatus for oiling or
greasing axles of colliery and other similar wagons and consists in providing one
or more oil or grease cisterns disposed between the permanent way rails. In each
cistern is pivoted a lever provided at one end with an adjustable or other oil or
grease cup or receiver. The lever is provided with a projection or arm against
which the axles of the colliery or other wagons operate in their passage over the
oil or grease cistern and depresses the lever with the oil or grease cup to charge
the latter from the cistern. Immediately the said projection or arm is released
from the axle by the travelling movement of the wagon the lever and oil or grease
cup is re-set by a weight, spring, or other equivalents, by which action the oil or
grease cup will be pressed against the axle between the bearing and the wheel or
in any other position according to the make or build of the wagon.
The oil or grease cisterns may be constructed on the single or double principle,
in the former case they are disposed so that the axles on each side may be oiled or
greased separately.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my self-acting apparatus for oiling or greasing
axles of colliery and other similar wagons.

page_text: Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of same.
Fig. 3 is a plan, and
Fig. 4 is a plan showing the apparatus in position between the permanent way
rails.
A are the permanent way rails; B a colliery wagon, and C the oil or grease
cistern. In the oil or grease cistern C is pivoted the lever D on the centre E;
one end of the latter being supported in the side of the cistern C, and the other
end in the lug or projection G cast to the cistern cover H. The cover H is
secured to the cistern C by the bolts W. The lever D is provided with the oil or
grease cup or receiver I. The lever D is of the form shown in the drawing having
the projection against which the axles K of the colliery wagon B operate in their
passage over the oil or grease cistern C, and depresses the lever D, as shown in
dotted lines, to allow of the cup or receiver I being charged with oil or grease from
the cistern C. Oil or grease is represented by the broken lines in Figs. 1 and 2.
Immediately the projection J on the lever D is released from each axle K by the
travelling movement of the wagon B the cup or receiver I and the lever D are
re-set by the weight 1 and spring M:
The weight L is mounted on the arm N attached to the lever D.
One end of the spring M is coupled to the arm ( attached to the lever D, the
other end being coupled to the projection or lug X on the underside of the cover H.
This end of the spring M is provided with the screwed end P and nuts Q to adjust
the tension or lifting power of the spring M. When the lever D is released from
each axle K of the wagon B it assumes the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1,
which places the cup or receiver I, and the oil or grease it contains against the
axles K between the bearings R and the wheels S.
To ensure of the distance between the bearings R and the inside of the wheels S
being sufficiently wide to admit of the cup or receiver I the cover H is fitted with
the taper projection U, which, as the wagon travels towards the projection Jon
the lever D, opens out or slides the wagon and bearings R laterally on the axle K.
The projection U also serves as a stop to arrest the upward movement of the
lever D. For the purpose of operating on both ends of the axles K in close
proximity to the bearings R. I provide the two cisterns C disposed in the permanent
way as shown in Fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
For oiling or greasing the axles of colliery and other similar wagons whilst in
motion the use, construction, and arrangements of self-acting apparatus, substantially
as described and as illustrated in the drawings.
Dated the 21st November 1892.
EDMUND CHADWICK, F.I.C.P.A.,
Agent.