Improvements in Lubricators for Cycles, Vehicles, and Machinery.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lubricators for Cycles, Vehicles, and
Machinery.
I LIONEL ARTHUR WATSON of Hill House, Sandgate Road, Folkestone
Kent, Lieutenant Indian Staff Corps do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the, same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in lubricators for cycles vehicles.
and machinery the object being to afford an effectual cover to the oil cup or
chamber and at the same time to allow of the introduction of oil from the nozzle or
epout of an oil-can or oil container so that whilet the oil is introduced in an
effective speedy and cleanly manner the closing of the lubricator will be ensured
and take effect automatically upon completion of the operation.
In order that my said invention may be well ascertained there is annexed heroto.
a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and the same will be referred to by figures
and letters in the following description.
Fig. 1, is a side view partly in section of the hub of a cycle wheel showing the
oil container and cap apart but with the cover closed.
Fig. 2, is plan of the cap.
Fig. 3 is a sectional side view, of the character of a diagram, illustrative of the
action of the hinged cover upon adding to supply of oil.
A, indicates the hub of a wheel; a, cup or nipple thereon (shown screw
threaded externally) b, is an internally screwed cap corresponding to the
oil cup a, said cup a, having an opening therein to which is fitted the cover or
lid b', binged at c. Below the cover 61, is fitted a springs, which is to be so.
arranged that the resilience thereof will hold the hinged cover b', up against its
seating in the cap b, under normal conditions, but allowing of the spring enforced
hinged cover being depressed for introducing supply of oil, substantially as
illustrated by Fig. 3
The fitting of the spring within the cover b, may be done in any convenient
manner, and its juxtaposition to the hinge as shown by the drawings may be
varied. In Fig. 3, the tail of the spring is shown carried out through a slit in
the metal of the cap b, and turned down on the outside; such fitting of the spring
through the slit in cap b, would be a tight fit to avoid exudation of oil.
The cap b, may in some cases be screw threaded externally so as to take into
an internally screw threaded hole in the part of the wheel or machinery where the-
lubrication has to be effected, and in this case tho. tail of the spring would be
preferably secured inside the cap b.
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
1 claim is :-
In lubricators for cycles vehicles, and machinery the cap b, having the hinged
depressible flap b', reinforced by the springs, constructed combined and operating
as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dad L
1000
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.