Improvements in Liquid Lubricating Compounds.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
Improvements in Liquid Lubricating Compounds.
We, THOMAS HUMPHREYS JONES and ELLIS OWEN ROBERTS both of 51 Old Hall
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster Oil Merchants, do hereby declare tho
nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
This invention has for its object a lubricating compound of an alkaline nature, and
therefore without the acid action on the metal and the scale forming properties in the
boiler, so noticeable with many oily and greasy lubricants. Indeed one of the
advantages we expect to get by the use of this lubricant is that such portions of it as
enter the condenser and boiler with the steam from the cylinder and condensation
water, will have a scale removing, rather than a scale forming effect. Unlike, too,
the alkaline lubricants used in railway axle boxes, this can be used in ordinary oil
lubricators, being liquid.
We form our lubricant of washing soda, 10 to 30 parts, hard soap, or the ingredients
which go to form hard soap, 10 to 30 parts, water, 20 to 60 parts, and any suitable oil
or mixture of oils, animal, vegetable, or mineral, 10 to 30 per cent. The whole are
heated together, till they unite. If mineral oils be used, we prefer to thoroughly blend
them first with animal or vegetable oils, to prevent them separating on standing, and
only such should be used as will saponify when so blended, or will at least dissolve in
soap solution.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Liquid Lubricating Compounds.
We, THOMAS HUMPHREYS JONES and ELLIS OWEN ROBERTS, both of 51 Old Hall
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Oil Merchants 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 :-
This invention has for its object a lubricating compound of an alkaline nature, and 5
therefore without the acid action on the metal, and the scale forming properties in the
boiler so noticeable with many oily and greasy lubricants. Indeed one of the advan-
tages we expect to get by the use of this lubricant is that such portions of it as enter
the condenser and boiler with the steam from the cylinder and condensation water, will
have a scale removing, rather than a scale forming effect. Unlike, too, the alkaline
lubricants used in railway axle boxes, this can be used in ordinary oil lubricators, being
liquid.
*The proportions of the materials employed may be varied, but for ordinary purposes,
our lubricating compound consists of the following ingredients:
Washing soda
Hard soap or ingredients which go to form
hard soap,
Distilled water,
Any suitable oil or mixture of oils, animal,
vegetable or mineral,
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10 to 20 parts
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10 to 20 parts
40 to 60 parts
20 to 30 parts.
The whole are heated together, till they unite. If mineral oils be used, we prefer to
thoroughly blend them first with animal or vegetable oils, to prevent them separating
on standing, and only such should be used as will saponify when so blended, or will at
least dissolve in soap solution.
1
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven- 2
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what wo
claim is :-
A liquid lubricating compound as herein described, consisting of washing soda, hard
soap or ingredients which go to form hard soap, distilled water, and any suitable oil
or mixture of oils, animal, vegetable, or mineral combined, substantially in the 3
proportions set forth.
THOMAS HUMPHREYS JONES.
ELLIS OWEN ROBERTS.
Win. P. Thompson & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicants.