IMPROVE- .MENTS IN LUBRICATING APPARATUS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Antonio Fedele Cossus, of University Street,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
.MENTS IN LUBRICATING APPARATUS
Scaled the 9th March 1853, and dated the 26th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Antonio Fedele
Cossus at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th November 1852.
I, ANTONIO FEDELE Cossus, of University Street, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LUBRICATING APPARATUS" to be as follows:
This Invention consists of a vessel which contains the lubricating
fluid, there being a tube which on the interior of the vessel rises
above the level of the fluid therein, down which tube the lubricating
fluid descends to lubricate the piece of machinery to which the
lubricating apparatus is applied, similarly to other lubricating
apparatus heretofore used; but the quantity of the fluid which is
allowed to pass down the tube is in the present apparatus regulated
by a wheel, revolving partly in the fluid, which constantly brings

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Antonio Fedele Cossus in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ANTONIO FEDELE Cossus, of University Street, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Antonio Fedele Cossus,
Her special, licence that I, the said Antonio Fedele Cossus, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Antonio Fedele Cossus, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should, at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LUBRICATING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Antonio Fedele Cossus, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Antonio Fedele Cossus, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof (that is
to say):

page_text: This Invention consists of a vessel which contains the lubricating
fluid, there being a tube which on the interior of the vessel rises
above the level of the fluid therein, down which tube the lubricating
fluid descends to lubricate the piece of machinery to which the
lubricating apparatus is applied, similarly to other lubricating
apparatus heretofore used; but the quantity of the fluid which is
allowed to pass down the tube is in the present apparatus regulated
by a wheel, revolving partly in the fluid, which constantly brings
up a quantity of fluid on its periphery, and such fluid is intercepted
by and runs down a stem or conductor into the tube. And in
order that iny said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means
pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a section of the apparatus; Figure 2, shows a
section of a like apparatus with a somewhat different arrangement;
and Figure 3, shows a plan of Figure 2. In each of these figures
the same letters indicate similar parts. a, is the vessel containing
the lubricating fluid; b, is the tube down which the fluid passes
when raised out of the vessel a, and introduced into the tube b, by
the apparatus shown; c, is a wheel revolving partly in the lubri-
cating fluid. The wheel c, is fixed on the axis d, which receives, by
means of a band on one of the pulleys e, a constant rotatory motion;
f, is a stem or conductor for the lubricating fluid. The upper end of
this stem or conductor rests on the wheel, and its lower end is
within the tube b; hence the fluid, as it is brought up by the wheel,
will come against the conductor, and by it will be conducted to the
tube; and it will be evident that the quantity of fluid delivered by
the tube b, will depend on the speed at which the wheel is caused to
move, and which may be varied. In Figure 1, the axis of the
wheel passes into the tube b, and being perforated or formed with a
recess 6, it does not allow the fluid to pass continuously but at
intervals; whilst in Figure 2, the fluid is not interrupted after it

page_text: has once been brought or conducted into the tube b, but its flow
may be regulated by the screw b².
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the combination of apparatus herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Antonio Fedele Cossus, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of
May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty.three.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
A. F. COSSUS. (L.S.)