US Patent: 569,832
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| Engine
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Patentee:
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| Albert L. Ide (exact or similar names) - Springfield, Sangamon County, IL |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Apr. 25, 1896 |
| Granted: |
Oct. 20, 1896 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for A. L. Ide & Son
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Description: |
| Abstract:
invention relates to steam, gas, or other engines, and more particularly to that class of engines wherein the parts having frictional contact are automatically supplied with lubricating-oil from a common source or reservoir by some moving or rotating portion of the engine. Such an engine is illustrated and described in United States Letters Patent No. 400,682, issued to me April 2, 18S9, in which a horizontal stationary engine having two crank-disks is shown, said crank- disks, connecting-rod, cross-head, and the various other parts associated therewith being contained and completely inclosed within a continuous horizontal casing supporting the bearings of the crankshaft at one end and the cylinder at its opposite end. A pocket or reservoir is provided in the casing below the crank-disks, in which the lubricat- ing-oil is confined,-the crank-disks dipping for a slight distance into the oil. The rotating crank - disks deliver the oil from said pocket to the various points of application by centrifugal force. A difficulty which is met with in the sy stem of lubrication set forth in my said patent lies in the fact that the water which is condensed in the casing of the engine from the steam escaping from the cylinder through the stuffing-box becomes mechanically united with the oil by being churned, agitated, and mixed therewith by the crank-disks and reciprocating parts of the engine, whereby the oil is caused to thicken, its function as a lubricant being thereby impaired. The oil when thus mechanically united with water sometimes becomes too thick to flow freely to all of the bearings, especially when oil having a vegetable or animal constituent is employed.
Claim:
The combination with an engine, of a reservoir adapted to contain lubricating-oil, a moving portion of the engine being adapted to transfer said oit to bearing-surfaces of the engine, a receptacle adapted to receive the oil after having been transferred, a channel-way or passage through which the oil is adapted to be passed from said receptacle to the oil-reservoir, said receptacle being also 70o adapted to receive the water that condenses from the engine, and means for withdrawing the water from said receptacle. |
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