A New or Improved Oiler for Bicycles or other Velocipedes, or for any other Machines or Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Oiler for Bicycles or other Velocipedes, or for
any other Machines or Purposes.
I, LUDWIG HIRSCH, Merchant, of 65 Nassau Street, in the City of New York,
in the County and State of New York, United States of America, 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 :-
This invention relates to a new or improved oiler (for bicycles, velocipedes,
sewing machines or other machines or purposes) the spout of which is made sliding
and adapted to open and close the oiler so as to supply the oil or prevent the escape
of the same from the oiler, and the invention consists of an oiler which is provided
with a vent-device and with a spout made movable in a stuffing box on the oiler and
adapted to be guided on a stationary pin at the interior of the body of the oiler said
spout being provided at its inner end with a funnel-shaped mouth so as to permit
the discharge of the lubricating material from the oiler when the spout is drawn in
outward direction to its full extent while it prevents the escape of the same when
the spout is pushed inwardly over the stationary guide-pin.
In the accompanying drawings-
Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of my improved oiler with the spout in closed
position.
Fig. 2 is a vertical central section showing the spout drawn-out and in open
position, and
Figs. 3, and 4 are respectively a side elevation and a vertical section of a modified
construction of my improved oiler being adapted for use in oiling bicycles sewing
machines and light machinery.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout.
Referring to the drawings-A represents the body of my improved oiler which
body is made in cylindrical shape as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and provided with a
handle B.
The shape shown in Fig. 1 is intended for use in oiling machinery of larger size.
The body A may also be made of oblong shape with fat side walls in which case
it is adapted for use in oiling bicycles, sewing machines, etc.
The body A is made of sheet metal and provided with a stationary elongated
guide-pin a at the interior which pin is firmly attached to the bottom of the oiler
and nearly equal in length with the height of the same as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.
In most cases the guide-pin a is attached to the centre of the body A. The spout C
of the oiler is arranged axially in line with the stationary guide-pin a and is made
to slide in a suitable stuffing box & that is arranged on the top-part of the oiler at
a point opposite to the point of connection of the stationary guide-pin with the
bottom of the body A.
The inner end of the spout C is enlarged so as to form either a stop flauge or
conically flaring mount C which prevents the detaching of the spout from the
body A and which permits the tight seating of the inner end of the spout against
the inner end of the stuffing box b so as to prevent any escape of oil between the
spout and the stuffing.
The outer end of the spout C is provided with a suitable shoulder d by means of
which the spout is readily pulled outwardly from the bottom of the oiler or pushed
into the same.
When the spout C is pushed into the oiler the inner end of the
same passes readily over the stationary guide-pin a and is guided thereon until the

page_text: flange or mount C' abnts against the bottom of the body so as to produce by the
tight fitting of the spout C to the guide pin a the reliable closing of the oiler so
that no discharge of oil from the same is possible. When the spont C is pushed
into the body A, the oiler can be placed in any desired position without discharge
or leakage of oil so that the soiling of the pockets clothes or fingers is obviated.
When the spout is drawn in outward direction until its inner flange or mouth C¹
arrives at the inner end of the stuffing box the spout clears the stationary guide-pin a
and the oil can be readily discharged from the body to the spout either by gravity
or by pressing on the flexible side-walls of the oiler in the usual well-known
manner.
The body A is provided with a suitable vent device D of the construction shown
in Figs. 1 and 2 which consists of a spring-actuated follower d which is guided in
a stationary tube d' attached to the top of the oiler and which is provided with
small vent-openings d' outside aud inside of the body A so that when the follower
is pressed down against the tension of the spring d³ the air passes to the interior
of the body so that the oil can flow freely from the spout to the parts to be
ubricated.
The stuffing box is arranged in the screw-cap or plug e which can be readily
unscrewed and detached from the body A where the same is to be filled with oil.
The screw-cap or plug e is screwed into position on the body with the spout. The
screw cap or plug e is provided with an exterior collar for being taken hold of by
the fingers.
When the oiler is to be closed so that no oil can escape from the spout the vent
device is returned into its closed position either automatically by the spring d
which raises the follower d so as to close the vent openings or by being moved into
closed position by the fingers the spout being then pushed over the guide-pin into
the body A until the inner end of the spout abuts against the body of the oiler in
which position of the spout no oil can escape from the oiler.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. An oiler composed of a suitable body having a vent device a shifting spout or
tube guided in a stuffing box of the body an inner elongated stationary guide-pin
projecting from the bottom of the oiler in line with the spout to a point near the
top of the body said spout being adapted to be moved inwardly over the più so as
to abut against the bottom of the body or outwardly so as to clear the same
substantially as set forth.
2. An oiler composed of suitable body having a vent device an inner elongated
stationary guide-piu projecting from the body of the oiler to a point near the top of
the body a movable spout or tube arranged in line with said pin and guided in a
suitable stuffing box of the body so as to fit onto said pin said spout being provided
with a flaring mouth at its inner end adapted to seat upon the bottom of the body
at the base of the piu and with a shoulder near its outer end substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1896
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.