An Improved Appliance for Cleansing and Lubricating Bearings
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"An Improved Appliance for Cleansing and Lubricating Bearings."
I, QUENTIN CHARLES ALEXANDER CRAUFURD, of Her Majesty's Ship "Daring"
Sub.Lieutenant. R N. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an appliance for cleansing and lubricating bearings such,
for example, as velocipede axles and other running parts.
For this purpose I employ a conveniently shaped vessel which may be of any of
the usual forms in which lubricators are made having a delivery tube, preferably
tapered, and of the usual form the end of which can be inserted into an oil hole.
Within this tube I insert a part of another tube, preferably a tapered tube having
its one end opening with a small bore in the lubricator tube the other end extending
through the end of the vessel and having a screw or other suitable union for attaching
to it a flexible or other tube its mouth being preferably furnished with a check
valve.
I charge the vessel with paraffin or other cleansing fluid and then force air or other'
gaseous fluid into the inner tube so that a current issuing from it within the tube of
the lubricator exerts injector action forcing the paraffin or other cleansing fluid into
and through the bearing thus cleansing it.
The vessel can then be charged with oil or other lubricating fluid which can be in
like manner injected into the bearing. The air compressor employed for charging
pneumatic tyres can be used for forcing the air through the injector tube.
Dated this 24th day of November 1896.
ABEL & IMKAY
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
"An Improved Appliance for Cleansing and Lubricating Bearings."
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I, QUENTIN CHARLES ALEXANDER CRAUFURD, of Her Majesty's Ship "Amphion
Sub Lieutenant. R.N 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 relates to an appliance for cleansing and lubricating bearings such,
for example, as velocipede axles and other running parts.
For this purpose I employ a conveniently shaped vessel which may be of any of
the usual forms in which lubricators are made having a delivery tube, preferably
tapered, and of the usual form the end of which can be inserted into an oil hole, as
shewn in section in Fig. 1 and in side view in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.
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page_text: Within the tube A I insert part of another tube B preferably a tapered tube having
its one end opening with a small bore in the lubricator tube A the other end
extending through the end of the vessel V and having a screw or other suitable
union C for attaching to it a flexible or other tube its mouth being preferably
furnished with a check valve D.
I charge the vessel V with paraffin or other cleansing fluid and then force air or
other gaseous fluid into the inner tube B so that a current issuing from it within the
tube A exerts injector action forcing the paraffin or other cleansing fluid into and
through the bearing thus cleansing it.
The vessel V can then be charged with oil or other lubricating fluid which can be
in like manner injected into the bearing. The air compressor employed for charging
pneumatic tyres can be used for forcing the air through the injector tube.
As shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the end of the tube A may be screwed to
receive a nozzle E having on it a. packing washer F so that when this nozzle is
inserted in an oil hole with the washer pressed against the mouth of the hole, the oil
is prevented from escaping.
A small hole is provided at 6 in the inner tube B for the entrance of air into the
vessel V.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An appliance for cleansing and lubricating bearings constructed and operating
substantially as described.
2. In an appliance for cleansing and lubricating bearings, the combination, with a
vessel such as V with discharge tube such as A, of an inner tube such as B extending
through the vessel into the tube A and having its rear end adapted for connection
with an air pump for the purpose of discharging fluid from the vessel by injector
action, substantially as described.
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