NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVE- MENTS IN LUBRICATING BOXES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of
France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LUBRICATING BOXES."-A communication from Isaac Pennington
Wendell, residing at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, United
States of America.
Sealed the 5th May 1868, and dated the 12th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th November 1867.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
88, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue
du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVE-
HENTS IN LUBRICATING BOXES," a communication from Isaac Pennington
Wendell, a person resident at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania,
United States of America, to be as follows:-
The present Invention relates to a box for the lubrication of the bearings
to shafts, axles, journals, and other bearings in machinery, land conveyance,
and such like applications, and consists,―

page_text: First. In so disposing about the shaft, axle, journal, or other bearing, a
reservoir or reservoirs for oil, or other suitable lubricating medium, and so
connecting such reservoir or reservoirs by one or more tubes or other com-
municating passages extending between it or them, and the bearing of the
shaft, axle, or journal, that by the revolution of the said shaft, axle, or
journal, the lubricating medium contained in the reservoir or reservoirs will
be drawn or sucked up, as it were, therefrom to the bearing, and being carried
around by the journal, shaft, or axle made to lubricate the same.
Second. In combination with the above, this Invention further consists in
providing communication between the bearings of the journal, axle, or shaft,
and the oil reservoir or reservoirs for the surplus oil or other lubricating
medium to flow back into the same.
Third. In so supporting a bearing plate or other surface for the journal,
which bearing plate is provided with a communication between it and the
oil reservoir or or reservoirs as to have a yielding elastic pressure against the
said journal.
And, fourth. In combination with the same so constructing such plate upon
its outside, and projecting into the oil reservoir about the communicating
tubes as to form an air chamber or cushion or cushions about the same, and
thus as the journal revolves drawing the oil up through the communication by
its own action, or the action of the said air cushion or cushions, or both
combined; if any movement occurs to the plate an additional impetus is given
to the oil, and it is made the more perfectly and fully to be diffused or
supplied about the journal or axle.
A longitudinal and transverse section of this improved lubricating box is
represented in the accompanying Drawings, in which A is the oil reservoir;
B, the bearing plate; C, the shaft or axle; H, the partition between the
bearing plate and the reservoir; J, the spring of the bearing plate; L, the
extension piece of the bearing plate; M, the air chamber; N, the tube of
communication from the reservoir to the shaft; O, the return tube.

page_text: Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, and 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris,
in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 "NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN LUBRICATING BOXES," &
communication from Isaac Pennington Wendell, a person resident at Phila-
delphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 per-
formed, 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 Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 :-
The present Invention relates to a box for the lubrication of the bearings
to shafts, axles, journals, and other bearings in machinery, land conveyance,
and consists,
First. In so disposing about the shaft, axle, journal, or other bearing a
reservoir or reservoirs for oil or other suitable lubricating medium, and so
connecting such reservoir or reservoirs by one or more tubes or other com-
municating passages extending between it or them and the bearing of the
shaft, axle, or journal, that by the revolution of the said shaft, axle, or
journal the lubricating medium contained in the reservoir or reservoirs will
be drawn or sucked up as it were therefrom to the bearing, and being carried
around by the journal, shaft, or axle made to lubricate the same.
Second. In combination with the above this Invention further consists in

page_text: providing communication between the bearings of the journal, axle, or shaft
and the oil reservoir or reservoirs for the surplus oil or other lubricating
medium to flow back into the same.
Third. In so supporting a bearing plate or other surface for the journal,
which bearing plate is provided with a communication between it and the
oil reservoir or reservoirs as to have a yielding elastic pressure against the
said journal.
And fourth. In combination with the same so constructing such plate upon
its outside, and projecting into the reservoir about the communicating tubes
as to form an air chamber or cushion or cushions about the same, and thus as
the journal revolves, drawing the oil up through the communication by its own
action, or the action of the said air cushion or cushions, or both combined; if
any movement occurs to the plate an additional impetus is given to the oil,
and it is made the more perfectly and fully to be diffused or supplied about
the journal or axle.
In the accompanying Plate of Drawings my improvements in lubricating
boxes for shaft, axle, and other bearings in machinery are illustrated. Fig. 1
being a central longitudinal vertical section of the parts of a lubricating box
for a shaft or other bearing constructed according to my Invention, with the
shafts and other parts of the box not involved by the same shewn in similar
section; Fig. 2 a transverse vertical section taken in the plane of the line x, x,
Figure 1; Figures 3 and 4 similar views to Figures 1 and 2 respectively, showing
a modification in the form of the journal box, but involving the same principle
of operation; Figure 5 a side view and transverse section, showing another
form of the journal box, but involving the same principle of construction;
Figure 6 a plan or top view of the bearing plate to the shaft and upon its
upper surface; Figure 7 a transverse section taken in place of the line y, y,
Figure 6.
A in the Drawings, Figures 3 and 6, represents a box or case that is to be
placed within the ordinary journal box, and there supported upon a spring or
springs, or other equivalents, resting upon the bottom of such journal box, and
thus held by its circular concave-shaped top or cap B up and against and
about the shaft, journal, or axle C, for which the box is provided. The box
or case A is for the reception of the oil, or other suitable lubricating medium
employed, and from the bearing surface D to the concave box or cap B, about
the journal or axle down to and into the oil in the reservoir; below its
surface and nearly to the bottom plate thereof is extended a series of tubes E
open at the end, at the one to the journal and at the other to the oil in the
reservoir, as plainly shown in the Drawings, Figures 3 and 4, and 6 and 7.

page_text: With a reservoir for oil disposed about a journal or other shaft, and provided
with tubes or other passages communicating between the bearings of such
journal and the oil in the reservoir, the oil made to be drawn or " sucked
up," or, in other words, forced up to the said shaft or journal, and thereon
being diffused between it and its bearings as well as carried around on the
journal caused to thoroughly lubricate the same, and to keep it well supplied
with the oil or other lubricating medium employed. a orifices in the bearings
plate B for the journal for supplying air to the reservoir D, and conveying
back the surplus oil about the journal to the reservoir to be from there
supplied from the journal. Within the tubes E is located a spiral or coiled
wire or springs F, bearing at their upper ends against the axle or journal, and
at their lower ends against the bottom to the oil box. These springs are used
for the purpose of facilitating the conduction of the oil up the tubes to the
journal; but if such tubes are made smaller can be entirely dispensed with.
In lieu of the tubes E and coiled or spiral wires F a communication may be
formed between the bearing to the journal and the oil reservoir in the form of
a slot or slots extending from end to end, or nearly so, of the cap plate B,
through which the oil will be drawn or sucked up to the bearing. In Figures
1 and 2 of the Drawings the oil reservoir A and ordinary lubricating box are
one and the same, but with the former made in the lower portion of the latter
by means of a horizontal partition plate H located therein, that in its centre
is cut out in the present instance with a square-shaped hole or opening I.
The bearing plate B to the journal in this case, shown in Figures 1 and 2, is
supported by bent springs J attached to its under side upon the upper surface
of the partition plate H in proper position to set and bear against the journal
or axle, around which by its concave face it partially extends, and by its centre
rectangular-shaped extension piece L extended down through the hole I of
such plate into the oil reservoir below and below the surface of the oil therein.
This extension piece L is hollowed out upon its inside, forming a chamber M
about a central tube N for a similar purpose to the tubes E that extends
from the oil up to the bearing of the journal, forming a communication
between the two for a supply of oil to the latter; as the journal revolves by
means of the action of suction, as it were, through the same, or the action of
the air confined in the space or chamber M about the tube, or both in addi-
tion to the tendency of the vibration, if any, of the bearing plate B to the
axle to "spurt" or throw up the oil. O, passages leading from the journal
down through the bearing plate to the oil reservoir for conducting the surplus
oil back thereto; the passages serving in this respect a similar purpose to the
orifices a, herein-before referred to in connection with Figs. 6 and 7.

page_text: In Figure 5 is shown a modification in the under piece of the bearing plate
for projecting into the oil reservoir, and also showing a different manner and
arrangement of springs for supporting the same, the principles of operation
however being the same. In Figures 3 and 4, in lieu of supporting the
bearing plate upon springs resting upon the oil box, it is supported upon
springs in the outside journal box, in a manner similar to that herein-before
described as being shown in Figures 6 and 7, the operation of the parts being
substantially the same as that described in the case of the arrangement of
bearing plate and journal box shown in Figures 1 and 2, and 6 and 7.
Having thus described my Invention, I claim as new and desire to secure
by Letters Patent,―
First. So disposing about a journal or other bearing a reservoir or reservoirs
for the oil or other lubricating medium, and connecting such reservoir with
the bearing of the journal through a tube or tubes or other equivalent passage,
that by the revolution of the journal the oil or other lubricating medium will
be drawn up to the journal whereon it will be diffused, substantially as
described for the purpose specified.
Second. In combination with the above, providing a communication between
the journal and the oil reservoir or reservoirs for the surplus oil to flow back
into the same, substantially as described.
Third. So supporting the bearing plate or other surface for the journal, as
to have a yielding elastic pressure, substantially as specified.
Fourth. The arrangement of the bearing plate or its equivalent for for the
journal, so as to play within the oil reservoir in combination with so con-
structing such bearing plate as to project within the reservoir, and serve to
form an air chamber or cushion or cushions about the oil passage or tube or
tubes, substantially as and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.B.)