Improved Car Axle Lubricator.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
Improved Car Axle Lubricator.
I, SAMUEL ALBERT FLOWER, of No. 79 Clinton Avenue, in the City of
Newark, State of New Jersey, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention is an improvement in the resilient fibre used in combination with
absorbent fibre in car axle boxes for holding the absorbent fibre containing the oil,
up in contact with the underside of the car axle journal, and consists in the
employment of hair or other naturally resilient fibre, corrugated, crimped or curle.l
to increase the resilient power, previously to mixing and combining with the
resilient fibres, as hereinafter described reference being made to the accompanying
drawing in which :-
Fig. 1, is a sectional elevation of a car axle box and a side view of part of a car
axle, said box being packed with my improved lubricator.
Fig. 2, is a side view of a short section of roped fibre as indicative of a well
known way that may be employed for coiling, crimping or twisting the resilient
fibres, but any other way of effecting the curling, crimping or corrugating may be
employed, the same as for preparing fibres for upholstery purposes, the method of
curling, crimping or twisting not being claimed as new.
Fig. 3, represents skeins or hanks of woollen or other yarn of absorbent material
to be mixed with the resilient fibre.
The axle box a, axle b and journal e may be of the usual ordinary approved
form in which the box is adapted for holding and carrying a supply of oil for
lubricating the journal.
1 take any resilient fibre as hair or other fibre capable of being curled,
crimped or corrugated, and of retaining the curls crimps or corrugations, so as to
remain in such loose bunchy condition that when the axle box is packed with it in
a comparatively loose condition it will resist the tendency of the shocks of service
and will stand up and maintain contact with the journal as absorbent fibre alone
will not, and duly curl or crimp the same as indicated by the rope d or otherwise
as before stated, and having subsequently picked it apart loosely, mix therewith a
suitable proportion of the absorbent fibre as e, so that the absorbent fibre will be
thoroughly distributed throughout the resilient fibre, and then pack the combined
fibres in the axle box in sufficient quantity to have contact with the underside of
the journal c, but sufficiently loose to allow the oil to ascend in the capillary fibres,
and also to be thrown up in contact with the surface of the journal by the shocks
and jars of service, and thus provide a more efficient lubricator of this character
than when the resilient fibres are not curled crimped or corrugated.
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 :
A fibrous packing for car axle boxes, consisting of hair or other naturally
resilient fibre, curled, crimped or corrugated, and combined and mixed with
absorbent fibre as a packing in the oil boxes substantially as described.
Dated. New York, June 15th 1895.
SAMUEL ALBERT FLOWER.