US 4,090,588 AGranted

Means for lubricating machine components

AssigneeIngersoll-Rand Company

InventorLarry Neil Willover

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Abstract

The invention comprises a lubricant trough or reservoir which is replaceably secured to an inner wall of a machine in an area where the reservoir will intercept, and reclaim, lubricant thrown by a rotating lubricant slinger-disc, or thrown by meshing gears, and discharge the reclaimed lubricant to bearings which carry a rotating shaft. The reservoir is open-topped, to admit the thrown lubricant, and has conduits extending therefrom which terminate in adjacency to bearings to be lubricated. The lubricant-discharging ends of the conduits are slightly elevated, relative to orifices in the reservoir from whence the conduits are supplied with lubricant, in order that the conduits will always retain therein a head or supply of lubricant immediately releasable therefrom upon any small quantity of lubricant being added to the reservoir.

Claims12

Dependent claims

Means for lubricating machine components, comprising:

a lubricant reservoir;
said reservoir having an open-top and a lubricant outlet, said outlet opening onto a first plane;
rigid conduit means coupled at one end thereof to said outlet, and opening onto a second plane spaced apart from said first plane;
and
lubricant collector means coupled to said top for directing lubricant into said reservoir;
wherein
said reservoir has inner walls joined to an inner bottom surface, in which to confine lubricant, said bottom surface defining a lowermost given level of said reservoir;
said outlet comprises an opening formed in said reservoir, opening inwardly onto one of said walls, and outwardly of said reservoir;
said conduit means is coupled to said opening and has a lubricant discharge means formed in an end thereof opposite said one end;
said discharge means is disposed in a level elevated from said given level;
and
said opening is disposed in a level intermediate said given and elevated levels.

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Facts

Application: 05/724,319Filed 17 Sep 1976
Granted: 23 May 1978
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

F16H 57/0421
Guidance of lubricant: on or within the casing, e.g. shields or baffles for collecting lubricant, tubes, pipes, grooves, channels or the like
F01M 9/06
Lubrication means having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01M1/00 - F01M7/00: dip or splash…
F16H 57/0469
Elements of gearings to be lubricated, cooled or heated: bearings or seals
F16N 7/24
The oil being carried up by a lifting device: with discs, rollers, belts or the like contacting the shaft to be lubricated