Improvements in Lubricating Gas and Oil or Explosive Engines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
Improvements in Lubricating Gas and Oil or Explosive Engines.
SAMUEL CLAYTON, Engineer, 24, Paradise Street, Bradford, and HOLBERRY
MENSFORTH, Foreman Engineer, 82, Whitley Hill, Bradford, in the County of Yorks,
we do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereafter
described whereby greater efficiency and economy can be obtained, by our
improvement.
We will describe our invention in connection with the Inbricating of oil gas,
vapour or explosive engines.
We employ a mechanical arrangement, arranged and fixed to the air valve, or air
supply pipe or other arrangement, whereby we let or cause the lubricant or oil to
drop on to a gauze or other perforated material with a diaphragm below the ganze,
or perforated material, so as to split up the drops of oil when dropping on to the
diaphragm, or other suitable contrivance to insure the oil being split up into small
particles, and carried in à state of suspension along with the air or working mixturė
into the cylinder, by the action of the piston, drawing in its mixture, or vapour, by
the outward stroke of the piston.
The lubricant being deposited on to the valves and walls of the cylinder by the
working of the engine.
What we claim is the drawing in to the cylinder cold or heated oil or lubricant
along with the air, or working mixture, and so split up the same into small
particles or in the form of vapour for lubricating purposes in oil, gas, vapour or
other explosive engines.
Dated this 20th day of January 1808
SAMUEL CLAYTON.
HOLBERRY MENSFORTH.
Improvements in Lubricating Gas and Oil or Explosive Engines.
We, SAMUEL CLAYTON, Engineer, 24, Paradise Street, Bradford, and HOLBERRY
MENSFORTH, Foreman Engineer, 82, Whitley Hill, Bradford, in the County of
York, 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 :-
Our invention rélates to certain improvements in the method of and apparatus
for lubricating gas, oil or explosive engines, and consists in constructing and
arranging an apparatus in such a manner that, the lubricant on its passage to the
valve or valves and cylinder is split up or divided into minute particles somewhat
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page_text: like spray, whereby the valves and walls of the cylinder are more efficiently
and economically lubricated than is the case when lubricated in the manner as
hitherto.
In describing our invention in detail, reference is made to the accompanying
sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 represents a section of a lubricator arranged according to our invention,
and
Fig. 2 is a similar section representing a modified form of our lubricator.
The lubricator cup A, may be attached to the air valve box, or air supply pipe,
or to any other convenient opening into the back end of the cylinder, conveying
air, or the mixture of gas and air, or vaporised oil either separately or combined
with air into the cylinder. The lubricant is allowed to drop from a suitable pipe
such as shown at P, on to the gauze or finely perforated dished plate B, below
which as shown by Fig. 1 is fixed a non-perforated diaphragm C, the upper
surface of which may be conical as shown, or curved downwards towards the
circumference in a manner that, the lubricant on dropping from the pipe P, upon
the dished gauze or plate B, will drop upon the diaphragm C, and run towards the
circumference of same; and by the inrush of air through the gauze B, the lubricant
is split up into spray.
When the engine is taking its charge of gas, vaporised oil or the like, and air
for effecting the consumption of the gas, vaporised oil or the like, within the
cylinder, the sudden inrush of air through the gauze or perforated dished plate B,
upon the diaphragm C, splits up the lubricant into small particles somewhat in the
form of spray, which is carried forward in suspension along with the air past the
circumference of the diaphragm C, in the direction of the arrows into the cylinder;
by the outward stroke of the piston, drawing the mixture through the valve or
valves into back end of the cylinder. The divided lubricant held in suspension
travelling with the mixture past the valve or valves into the cylinder, lubricates the
valves and walls of the cylinder with which it comes in contact.
Instead of fixing a non-perforated diaphragm C, under the gauze or perforated
dished plate B, our object may be accomplished by securing below the said gauze or
dished plate B, a diaphragm E, of gauze or the like. The drops of lubricant are
deposited from the pipe P, into the dished gauze or plate B, the drops falling upon the
gauze or finely perforated diaphragm E, is split up into spray or fine particles by the
inrush of air, substantially in the manner as hereinbefore described, and carried
forward into the engine cylinder, thereby lubricating the same and any valves
intervening between the lubricator cup A, and engine cylinder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood
that we do not confine ourselves to the exact details shown and described, as the
same may be varied without departing from the nature of our invention, but
declare that what we claim is :-
A lubricator arranged in a manner by which cold or heated lubricant is drawn
into the cylinder and split up into small particles or in the form of vapour by the
inrush of air or the working mixture into the cylinder. for the purpose of
lubricating the valves and walls of the cylinder of gas, oil or other explosive
engines.