Improvements in Lubricating Apparatus for Automatically Supplying or Feeding Lubricant under Water Pressure.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 22nd June, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889
Improvements in Lubricating Apparatus for Automatically
Supplying or Feeding Lubricant under Water Pressure.
I, GEORGE PALEY, of Bank Top Mill, Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to lubricating apparatus in which by means of water pressure
the lubricant is caused to be supplied or fed to the parts of motive power engines or
other machinery requiring lubrication in any required quantities during a given
period of time.
I employ a hollow vessel or chamber for containing oil or other lubricant which will
float on water the lower end of the chamber being open to a pipe from a pump or
other source from which the required water pressure may be derived.
The chamber at its upper end opens into an outlet pipe upon which I place a tap or
cock fitted with a plug which is caused to bo rotated at any required speed by ratchet
wheel and pawl mechanism or by any other convenient means.
Through the plug about midway of its length is a circular hole which in the
process of rotation comes opposite to the opening forming the outlet from the oil
chamber on the one side and on the other to an opening communicating with a pipe
for conducting the lubricant to the point where the required lubrication is to be effected
the openings in each side of the tap or cock being of somewhat less diameter than
the hole in the plug. Within the circular hole in the rotating plug is fitted a round
block of metal forming a piston which is free to slide easily therein. When the
circular hole comes opposite or in line with the opening from the oil chamber the
lubricant therefrom is forced against the piston and pushes it back to the other side
of the plug the unoccupied space in the hole becomes filled with lubricant which is
then carried round with the rotating plug until the circular hole is again in line with
the opening from the oil chamber whereupon the piston is again pushed back with
the incoming lubricant whilst the lubricant on the other side of the piston is forced
into the conducting pipe on the opposite side and whilst the plug continues to rotate
the process is repeated.
It will be obvious that the quantity of lubricant passing through the rotating plug
during a given period may be readily adjusted either by increasing or decreasing the
speed of rotation or by making the sliding piston to occupy a greater or less space
within the circular hole in the rotating plug or by placing a regulating tap on the
conducting pipe behind the tap or cock containing the rotating plug..
In a modification of the arrangements as above described I dispense with the
rotating plug and sliding piston apparatus the oil chamber at its upper end opening
into a pipe or passage turned in a downward direction and then upwardly through
which the lubricant is forced into the interior of a glass tube containing water.
The lubricant rises through the water to the upper end of the glass tube and enters
another pipe which conducts it to the point at which the lubrication is to be
effected.
I provide the oil chamber at its upper end with an air tap or valve and also with
a stop cock surmounted by a bell mouthed funnel through which the oil or other
lubricant is supplied to the interior of the chamber and at its lower end I provide the
chamber with a valve or cock for regulating the amount of water pressure to be
admitted to the interior of the chamber and also with another stop cock for allowing
the waste water within the chamber to be discharged therefrom.
The action of the apparatus as above described is as follows: The chamber having

page_text: been filled with oil or other lubricant which floats on water the water pressure is
admitted at the lower end of the chamber whereupon the oil is forced upwardly and
through the outlet in the top of the chamber. When the chamber is to bo
replenished with lubricant the water pressure below is shut off and the water which
has taken the place of the ejected lubricant is discharged through the stop cock at
the bottom of the chamber hereinabove referred to.
The oil chamber may be of any desired size or form and the lubricant may be
supplied or fed therefrom to several points simultaneously. by providing as many
outlets in the top of the chamber such outlets having rotating plug apparatus or
communicating with glass tubes (known as sight feeds") as above described as tho
size of the chamber will conveniently permit.
:
A guage glass in front of the chamber or a float or piston carrying a vertical
spindle projecting through the top of the chamber may be arranged to indicate the
quantity of oil remaining within as will be well understood. Or the vertical spindle
may be carried downwardly from the lower side of the float or piston through the
bottom of the chamber and from the lower projecting extremity of the spindle a
bent rod may be carried upwards along the side of the chamber and arranged to
answer as a finger or pointer in front of an indicating or index plate.
Although I have described the rotating plug as being made with only one
circular hole and piston it will be obvious that a plug so arranged may be made with
a number of such holes and pistons each of the holes being in communication with
a separate outlet from the oil chamber and with a separate pipe for conducting the
lubricant to any desired point.
Duted this 22nd day of Santambor 1888
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per J. G. S.,
Applicant's Agent.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lubricating Apparatus for Automatically
Supplying or Feeding Lubricant under Water Pressure.
1, GEORGE PALEY, of Bank Top Mill, Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Spinner and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to lubricating apparatus in which by means of water pressure
the lubricant is caused to be supplied or fed to the parts of motive power engines or
other machinery requiring lubrication in any required quantities during a given
period of time.
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In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is an elevation and
Fig. 2 another elevation partly in section of lubricating apparatus illustrative of the
nature of my said invention.
I employ a hollow vessel or chamber a for containing oil or other lubricant which
will float on water the lower end of the chamber being open to a pipe b.from a pump
or other source from which the required water pressure may be derived.
I The chamber a at its upper end opens into an outlet aperture or passage c which
leads to a tap or cock having a plug d which is caused to be rotated at any required
speed preferably by ratchet wheel and pawl mechanism e although it may be rotated
by wheel gearing or in any other convenient manner.
Through the plug d about midway of its length is a circular hole which in the
process of rotation comes opposite to or in line with the opening forming the outlet c
from-the-oil.chamber a.on the one side and on the other to an opening in communi-
cation with a pipe g which conducts the lubricant to the point where the required

page_text: lubrication is to be effected the openings e and fon each side of the rotating plug d
being of somewhat less diameter then the circular hole through the said plug.
Within the circular hole in the rotating plug is fitted a cylindrical block of metal h
forming a piston which is free to slide easily therein. When the circular hole comes
opposite or in line with the opening from the oil chamber (as shewn at Fig. 2) the
lubricant therefrom is forced by the pressure of the water underneath the lubricant
against the piston and pushes it to the other side of the plug the space in the hole
unoccupied by the plug being filled with lubricant which is carried-round with tho
rotating plug until the circular hole is again in line with the openings c and where-
upon the piston his again pushed by the incoming lubricant to the other side of the
plug the lubricant which had been carried round on the other side of the piston being
thereby forced into the outlet opening fand whilst the plug continues to rotate the
process is repeated.
I preferably provide between the rotating plug d and the conducting pipe ga
transparent glass tube; filled with water so that each discharge of lubricant from
the plug may be seen rising through the water in the manner common to "sight-feed"
lubricators.
It will be obvious that the quantity of lubricant passing through the rotating plug &
during a given period may be readily varied or adjusted either by increasing or
decreasing the speed of its rotation or by making the sliding piston of such a size as
to occupy a greater or less space within the circular hole in the rotating plug or
by means of a regulating tap (such as n) on the conducting pipe g.
I provide the oil chamber at its upper end with a stop cock surmounted by a bell-
mouthed funnel (such as k see Figs. 1 and 2) through which the oil or other lubricant
is supplied to the interior of the chamber and at its lower end I provide the chamber
with a valve or cock for regulating the amount of water pressure to be admitted to
the interior of the chamber and also with another stop cock m for allowing the waste
water within the chamber to be discharged therefrom.
The action of the apparatus as above described is as follows:-The chamber a
having been filled with oil or other lubricant which floats on water the water
pressure o is admitted at the lower end of the chamber whereupon the lubricant i is
forced upwardly and through the outlet in the top of the chamber. When the
chamber is to be replenished with lubricant the water pressure below is shut off by
means of the valve or cock and the water o which has taken the place of the ejected
lubricant is discharged through the stop cock m at the bottom of the chamber.
In a modification of the arrangement above described I dispense with the rotating
plug and sliding piston apparatus the oil chamber at its upper end opening directly
into a pipe or passage (turned first in a downward direction and then upwardly or the
said passage may be formed on one side of and in one piece with the chamber)
through which the lubricant is forced by the water pressure from below into
the interior of a glass tube containing water as hereinbefore mentioned. The
lubricant then finds its way into a conducting pipe (such as g provided with a tap n
as in the drawings) which conducts it to the point at which the lubrication is to be
effected.
The oil chamber may be of any desired size or form and the lubricant may be
supplied or fed therefrom to several points simultaneously by providing as many
outlets in the top of the chamber (such outlets having rotating plug apparatus or
otherwise) as the size of the chamber will conveniently permit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In lubricating apparatus the use or employment of water pressure for forcing
the lubricant through the apparatus substantially in the manner hereinabove described.
2. In lubricating apparatus the use or employment of a tap or cock having a plug

page_text: which is caused to be rotated such plug having an internal sliding block or piston
acted upon by the pressure of the lubricant and arranged and operating substantially
as hereinabove described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1889.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.