Patent 18911 Summary

Claim lst. In lubricators, the method of injecting lubricants, consisting in a movable and contractible oil-pocket, which becomes filled with lubricant when communicating with the inlet orifice, and by its transit closes said orifice and conveys the pocketed lubricant to discharge orifice, into which it is expelled by the closing or contraction of the pocket, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 2nd. In lubricators and for the purpose of preventing steam or vapors from the engine from entering and mingling with the lubricant in the oil-chamber, the contractible oil-pocket which closes when discharging its pocketed lubricant, substantially as specified. 3rd In a lubricator and as a means for forming an oil-pocket. two segmental piston rings enclosed in a grooved channel and leaving between their ends a contractible oil-pocket, substantially as described. 4th. In a lubricator and as a means for controlling the oil-pocket formed between two segmental piston-rings, the cams gi and g3 engaging with said piston rings and imparting to them by proper devices, a reciprocating-motion, substantially as described. 5th. In a lubricator and as a means for expelling the lubricant from the oil-pocket, the piston-rings ji and jr, cams fp and g3 and stop-pin M, in combination with the tension device, substantially as and for the purpose described. 6th. The lubricator and as a means for regulating the size of the oil-pocket. the piston rings j1 and j2, cams gl and g3, the tension device grooved ring J, arbor F, adjustable crank arm f6 and connecting rod f10 connecting with the valve rod b1, substantially as described. 7th. In lubricators and to enable the reciprocating or oscillating oil-pocket, mechanism to be freely moved in its transit space and yet exclude any vapor or'steam from the engine from entering the 'oil in the oil chamber through any leakage around said mechanism, the pipe E whereby the steam and hydrostatic pressure may exert a superior force against the oil chamber, causing it to seek an outlet through the discharge passage h3. and thus preventing substances from the engine from passing backward or into the oil chamber, substantially as specified. 8th. In lubricators and to provide for the continued lubrication of the reciprocating or oscillating oil-pocket mechanism with new or fresh oil to the exclusion of the old, the pipe E communicating between the boiler and oil chamber, whereby the steam and hydrostatic pressure causes the oil to seek egress into the lesser pressure of the discharge, substantiallyas specified. 9th. In a lubricator and in combination therewith, the tension devise herein described consisting of sleeve U, eared rings g2,g4 and g6, spring g5 and lock-nuts g7 and g8, substantially as described. 10th. In a lubricator, the auto-mechanical device herein described for imparting a reciprocating motion.to the piston-rings ji and Jr consisting of the arbor F, fluted sleeve U fitted on the square portion thereof, cams gi and p3, eared rings g2, p4 and ge, spring gs and look nuts 07 and g8, in combination with devices for imparting to the arbor F an oscillating motion from any of the moving members of the engine, substantially as described. 11th. In a lubricator, the inlet h2 and discharge passage h3 communicating with each other by a channel filled with the reciprocating piston rings j1 and j2 or their equivalents, so as to cut off direct communication between the same, substantially as described. 12th. In a lubricator, the parts for auto-mechanically operating the feeding device, the same consisting of the oscillating arbor F, fluted sleeve G. cams g1 and g2, grooved ring J proyided with stop-pin M and bridge N, the tension device split-ring H and inlet and discharge channels h2 and h3, all combined and operated substantially as described. 13th. In lubricators, the method of effecting the transition of lubricant material from a greater into a lesser pressure, and yet preventing any direct communication between the greater and lesser pressures resulting from the employment of the following means or their equivalents, namely : the valve D, pipe E. oil chamber A and the reciprocating oil pocket mechanism intervening between the receiving channel ha and the discharge passage h3, and given motion from a moving member of the engine, substantially as specified.