Improvements in Apparatus for Forming and Regulating the Combination of Oil with Air for Oil Motors.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 20th July, 1897-Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Forming and Regulating the
Combination of Oil with Air for Oil Motors.
We, Sir WILLIAM ARROL, of Dalmarnock Iron Works, 241, Baltic Street, in the
County of Glasgow, North Britain, Engineer, and GEORGE JOHNSTON, of 94, Hope
Street, in the same County, Consulting Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
In the improved apparatus constituting the invention a piece of woven or other
suitable permeable material is arranged so that at one place it passes through and is
saturated with the oil, whilst at another place the air, preferably heated, is made
to pass through the oil-carrying permeable material, and thence through a passage
leading to the motor, the air in its passage taking up some of the oil.
The permeable material is held between two disks upon a spindle which is made
to rotate at a suitable speed. Annular series of holes are formed in the two disks
to give the oil access to the permeable material and to allow the air to pass through.
The disks are enclosed in a vessel the lower part of which is supplied with the oil,
and the disks are on a horizontal spindle and partly immersed in the oil. At the
upper part of the vessel the disks pass through a narrow space and across openings
on each side, the opening on one side being the inlet for the air and that on the
other side communicating through a passage with the motor. A by-pass passage is
also provided to allow some air, if required, to mix with the oil-saturated air; and
provision is made by a valve or valves for regulating the proportions of air passing
through the oil-saturated permeable material and through the by-pass passage.
Dated this Twentieth day of October 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
Improvements in Apparatus for Forming and Regulating the
Combination of Oil with Air for Oil Motors.
We, Sir WILLIAM ARROL, of Dalmarnock Iron Works, 241 Baltic Street, in the
County of Glasgow, North Britain, Engineer, and GEORGE JOHNSTON, of 94, Hope
Street, in the same County, Consulting 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, that is to say:-
In the improved apparatus constituting the invention a piece of woven or other

page_text: suitable permeable material is arranged so that at one place it passes through and
is saturated with the oil, whilst at another place the air, preferably heated, is made
to pass through the oil-carrying permeable material, and thence through a passage
leading to the motor, the air in its passage taking up some of the oil.
And in order that the said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing an example of the improved apparatus.
Figure 1, is a vertical section of the apparatus; and Figures, 2, and 3, are,
respectively, a side elevation and a transverse vertical section of a part of the
apparatus. In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same
or like parts wherever they are repeated.
As shown in the drawings the oil-carrying permeable material, A, is placed
between two disks, B, C, held and pressed together by screwed bosses, D, E, on a
spindle, F, which is made to rotate at a suitable speed by gearing such as a worm
wheel and worm (not shown). Annular sets of holes, G, are formed in the two
disks, B, C, to give the oil access to the permeable material, A, and to allow the
air to pass through it. The disks, B, C, are enclosed in a casing, H, the lower part
of which is supplied with the oil; and they are partly immersed in the oil.
At the
upper part of the casing H, the disks, B, C, pass through a narrow space, J, and
across openings or passages, K, L, on each side, the passage, K, on one side being
the inlet for the air and the passage, L, on the other side communicating with the
motor (not shown). The air is thus compelled in passing from the passage, K,
to the passage, L, to go through the holes, G, and the oil-saturated permeable
material, A, the holes, G, being brought round in succession by the rotation of the
spindle, F, and the air in its passage thus taking up some of the oil. A by-pass
passage with an adjustable regulating valve, M, is also provided to allow some air,
if required, to mix with the oil-saturated air.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
In apparatus for forming and regulating the combination of oil with air for oil
motors, arranging woven or other suitable permeable material and moving it so that
at one place it passes through and is saturated with the oil, whilst at another place
the air is made to pass through it substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and as shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Nineteenth day of July 1897.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.