Lubricator for Steam-engines or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1899
Lubricator for Steam-engines or the like.
I, AUGUST MLITZ, Merchant, of Letochastr No. 3, Kattowitz O/S, Empire of
Germany, 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:
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The object of the present invention is a lubricator for steam-engines or the
like, which consists of a spoon or canal-shaped open receptacle with a screw-
stem and which is fixed either direct in the steam-pipes or in the steam-boxes,
so that at the operating of the engine the oil which is in direct contact with the
steam, is molecularly dispersed by the steam. By this molecular dispersion
the oil mixes with the steam, and all movable machinery parts which are under
steam, like the slide-valves, pistons, are oiled in the best and yet most saving
manner.
The accompanying drawing illustrates several forms of accomplishment:
Figure 1 shows a front-view and a longitudinal section as well as a front-
view and a cross cut of a canal-shaped lubricator.
Figure 2 shows the same views of a spoon-shaped lubricator.
Figures 3 & 4 represent views and sections of other forms.
Figures 5, 6 & 7 represent examples of adjustment of the lubricator at a
steam-engine.
The apparatus consists of a double screw-stem "a" with the screw-nut "f"
adjusted in the middle of the length of the stem. The canal, spoon or other
shaped receptacle "forms an open bowl which is in connection with the oil
supply-pipe. The oil is continually supplied to the apparatus by an oil-pump
fixed on and operated by the engine or by other means by which the quantity of
oil supplied to the apparatus, is regulated according to the consumption of
oil. The apparatus is fastened by means of the screw-stem in the machinery
parts, cylinder, slide-valve box, or the like, which contain steam and movable
parts, in such a manner that its canal, spoon or other shaped part reaches into the
steam-pipes or boxes whereby the oil is in continual contact or connection with
the steam. The lubricator must be of course applied at a proper place of the
steam-conducts before the machinery parts which are to be oiled, so that the oil
comes to these machinery parts together with the steam. The oil supplied
to the spoon of the apparatus is hereby brought into the highest degree of
fluidness which the temporary temperature admits; hereby also opportunity
for the most intensive dispersion of the oil is given to the passing steam. By
this molecular mixing of the oil with the steam of the engine the best utilization
of the oiling ability of the several lubricants is effected, and therefore the supply
of oil can be reduced in the same measure as the utilization of the greasing
ability of the oil is increased, i.e. the consumption of oil is brought to a minimum.
A miscarrying of the oil into the slide-valve box or similar machinery parts is
made impossible by the present invention.
The lubricator is arranged according to the happening appliance, as shown by
the different forms of accomplishment illustrated by Fig. 1 to 4.

page_text: Figure 1 is a lubricator in form of a canal open on the upper side.
Figure 2 is a lubricator with a spoon-shaped receptacle.
Figure 3 is a lubricator with a canal, the upper part of which is partly open.
Figure 4 is a lubricator with a canal which has a slit-like opening on 1 or
both sides.
These different forms of accomplishment are applied as follows;
The form of Figure 1 is used for pipe-conducts or boxes with downwards
streaming steam (as evident by the examples 5 to 7, marked Fig. 1), whereat the
whole opening of the canal is turned towards the instreaming steam.
Figure 2 is used in the same manner.
The form of Figure 3, as obvious from the examples 6 & 7, marked Fig. 3, is
used for pipe-conducts or boxes into which the steam enters in horizontal direc-
tion, whereat the closed part of the canal serves as a temporary receptacle for the
oil. The form shown in Fig. 4 is used for pipe-conducts or boxes into which the
steam enters in an upward's streaming direction, as evident from the examples 5
& 7, marked Fig. 4. Figure 4 may be also used for steam-pipes of horizontal
direction, but the apparatus must be then fastened sideways, as evident from the
cross cut of example 7, marked Fig. 4. At the latter modes of appliance the
opening of the canal is placed sideways of the apparatus. The corner of the
under part of the canal-opening is accordingly made round, so that, as obvious
from Fig. 7 direction of the arrow A," the steam when passing by the canal
enters through the slit-like opening into the canal and jerks out the oil which
is on the chamfer formed by the under part of the canal. An important advan-
tage of this apparatus is that a consumption of oil only takes place during the
operating of the engine. The entering of larger quantities of oil into the boxes
which are to be oiled, according to the arrangement of the movable machinery
parts, as it happens by grease-cocks or similar lubricators, is prevented by this
apparatus. Also the settling of oil on parts which absolutely need no oiling,
as it happens by other oiling devices, is hereby prevented.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
Lubricator for all kinds of steam-engines or the like, marked by a canal or
spoon-shaped receptacle or vase (c) for the reception of lubricants, with a screw-
stem (a) or similar means of adjustment, which is fastened inside of the boxes
or pipes conducting steam and containing the machinery parts which are to be
oiled, in such a manner that the instreaming steam comes in contact with the
oil before reaching the machinery parts which are to be oiled, and that thereby
the oil which is only supplied during the operating of the engine, i.c. during
the using of steam, is brought by the intensive contact of same with the steam
into the highest degree of fluidness admitted by the temporary temperature, and
that also opportunity is given to the instreaming (steam for the molecular
dispersion of the oil or for the most intensive mixing of the same with the
steam, by which process the best utilization of the greasing ability of the oil is
made possible.