Wide flow-range lubricant distributor
AssigneeUniwave, Inc.
InventorsAbraham Abrams, John J. Baumann
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Abstract
A distributor for feeding a lubricant to lubrication tubes is provided. A pressurized lubricant stream is projected from an outlet across a gap and impinges at least in part on an inlet of a lubrication tube positioned to face the stream. The lubrication tube is supported so as to limit interference of flow into its inlet by excess lubricant from the stream not impinging on the inlet. The lubricant stream may be in the form of an essentially conical stream diverging from the outlet, two lubrication tubes positioned with their respective inlets in essentially uniform spacing from the outlet and from the axis of the conical stream receiving essentially uniform quantities of lubricant. The lubrication stream may be a pressurized air-oil stream.
Claims41
A distributor for feeding a lubricant comprising:
- lubricant supply means having an outlet;
- lubricant transmission means having an inlet spaced from said outlet by a gap, said lubricant supply means being adapted to project a pressurized lubricant stream from said outlet across said gap;
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- means supporting said lubricant transmission means inlet so that said transmission means inlet faces and is at least in part in the path of at least a portion of the lubricant stream, the lubricant transmission means inlet projecting toward said lubricant supply means from the adjacent surface of said support means, whereby flow to said inlet of lubricant not directly impinging on said inlet is substantially limited and interference of the direct flow of at least a portion of the lubricant stream into the lubricant transmission means inlet by lubricant from said stream not directly impinging on said inlet is substantially limited.
A distributor for feeding a lubricant comprising:
- lubricant supply means having an outlet;
- lubricant transmission means having an inlet spaced from said outlet by a gap, said lubricant supply means being adapted to project a pressurized lubricant stream from said outlet across said gap;
- and means supporting said lubricant transmissions means inlet so that said transmission means inlet faces and is at least in part in the path of at least a portion of the lubricant stream, said support means being shaped to permit the passage therepast of lubricant from said lubricant stream not directly impinging on said lubricant transmission means inlet, whereby interference of the direct flow of at least a portion of the lubricant stream into the lubricant transmission means inlet by lubricant from said stream not directly impinging on said inlet is substantially limited.
A distributor for feeding a lubricant comprising:
- lubricant supply means having an outlet facing in a first direction;
- at least two lubricant transmission means, each having an inlet spaced from said outlet by a gap and facing in a second direction essentially opposite to said first direction, said lubricant supply means being adapted to project a pressurized lubricant stream from said outlet across said gap, said lubricant stream being characterized by at least two regions of substantially uniform lubricant flow;
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- means supporting said lubricant transmission means inlets so that said at least two inlets are each positioned in one of said regions of said lubricant stream, whereby rate of flow of lubricant into said at least two inlets is substantially uniform.
A distributor for feeding a lubricant comprising:
- lubricant supply means having an outlet;
- lubricant transmission means having at least two inlets spaced from said outlet by a gap, said lubricant supply means being positioned and adapted to project a pressurized lubricant stream from said outlet in an upward direction across said gap;
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- means supporting said at least two lubricant transmission means inlets so that each of said transmission means inlets face and are at least in part in the path of at least a portion of the lubricant stream, and so that said lubricant transmission means inlets face downwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.