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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM C. MANESS, OF LAREDO, TEXAS.
LUBRICATOR.1,120,729.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Dec. 15, 1914.
Application filed January 3, 1914. Serial No. 810,233.
TO allwhom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. MADNESS,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Laredo, in the county of Webb and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Lu-
bricator, of which the following is a speci-
fication.
. This invention relates to lubricators
adapted to be used in journal boxes of cars,
.10 in shaft bearings, and at any other points
where it is desirable to lead the lubricant up-
wardly to the axle or shaft to be lubricated,
whereby the use of waste or other packing
saturated with oil is dispensed with.
15 Another object is to provide a lubricator
which will adjust itself automatically to the
member to be lubricated and which includes
wiping means for removing surplus lubri-
cant and returning it to the lubricant con-
'20 tamer.
A further object is to provide lubricant
elevating means yieldingly mounted so as to
at all times firmly engage the surface to be
lubricated. V
25 With the foregoing and other objects in
view which will appear as the description
proceeds, the invention resides in the com-
bination and arrangement of parts and in
the details of construction hereinafter de-
30 scribed and claimed, it being understood that
changes in the precise embodiment of the in-
vention herein disclosed, can be made within
the scope of what is claimed, without de-
parting from the spirit of the invention.
35 In the accompanying drawings the pre-
ferred form of the invention has been shown.
In said drawings:-Figure 1 is a vertical
section through the lubricator applied to a
car axle, the journal box being shown in sec-
40 tion. Fig. 2 is a section on line A-B Fig. 1.
Referring to the figures by characters of
reference C designates a car axle or the like
extending into a journal box D, the bearing
block or brass being indicated at E. The
'45 bottom of the box D constitutes a lubricant
container and is adapted to receive the lubri-
cator constituting the present invention. In
the form of the device illustrated in the
drawings, this lubricator includes a base
50 plate 1 adapted to rest upon the bottom of
the box D and having coiled springs 2 suit-
ably secured thereto and extending upwardly
therefrom. The upper ends of the springs
are connected in any desired manner to a
55 top plate 3 having a slot 4 therein. Parallel
guide pins 5 extend downwardly from thetop plate 3 adjacent opposite sides of the.
slot 4 and may be connected to the top plate
in any suitable manner, as by threading
them and unscrewing them into the plate. 60
Coiled springs 6 are mounted on the pins and
bear downwardly upon suitable stop devices
such as pins 7 while their upper ends sup-
port an axle S on which a lubricating wheel
9 is mounted for rotation, this wheel ex- 65
tending upwardly through the slot 4 and
downwardly into the body of lubricant con-
tained in the box D.
Secured upon the top plate 3 is a saddle
10 which may be made of sheet metal and 70
thus capable of being bent so as to extend
concentric with the axle C. A wiping pad
11 of felt or any other suitable material is
secured in any desired manner upon the sad-
die and is designed to contact directly with 75
the axle C. Both the saddle and the pad 11
have slots 12 therein, these slots registering
with each other and being disposed directly
above the slot 4 so that wheel 9 will extend
through them. 80
In using the lubricator, the saddle is first
shaped so that the pad carried thereby will
fit snugly against the axle C. The said de-
vice is then placed in box D with base
plate 1 resting on the bottom of the box 85
and pad. Springs 2 will hold the pad
yieldingly against the axle. The springs
6 will hold wheel 9 pressed yieldingly
against the axle. Obviously when the axle
C rotates, wheel 9 will also be rotated 90
by reason of its frictional engagement
therewith and this wheel will lift por-
tions of the lubricant through the slots 4
and 12 and into contact with the axle C
where it will be distributed over the bearings 95
surplus lubricant being removed by the wip-
ing pad 11 and dropping back into the
box D.
Importance is attached to the fact that
the saddle is yieldingly supported and that 100
the wheel is also yieldingly supported, said
wheel being adapted to yield independently
of the saddle.
What is claimed is:-
1. The combination with a lubricant con- 305
tamer, of a lubricator including a. saddle, a
wiping element supported thereby, means for
yieldingly supporting the saddle within the
container, a lubricant elevating wheel ex-
tending through the saddle and wiping ele- 110
ment, and means for yieldingly supporting
the Wheel relative to the saddle, said wheel
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Maness, William C. Lubricator, patent, December 15, 1914; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858638/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.