Oil mist lubricator
AssigneeVogel Japan Ltd.
InventorsNorihiko Takubo, Nobuyuki Ikeda, Yuuichirou Koike
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Abstract
An oil-mist lubricator is provided that can stably supply oil mist uniform in particle diameter, and that can also be used for the supplying of cutting oil in minute-amount cutting. An oil-mist lubricator turns oil into oil mist after the oil is discharged from a fixed displacement pump that sucks a and discharges oil in an oil tank. In this lubricator, a cyclone is provided for selecting only oil mist having a suitable particle diameter from among the oil mist and discharging it under centrifugal force produced inside thereof. It is thus possible to separate the oil mist into smaller and larger mist particles under centrifugal force and stably supply oil mist that is small and uniform in particle diameter.
Claims13
An oil-mist lubricator comprising an oil tank, a fixed displacement pump for sucking and discharging oil in said oil tank, an atomizer for turning the oil discharged from said fixed displacement pump into oil mist comprising small and large diameter oil mist particles, and a cyclone for separating only the small diameter oil mist particles and discharging the small diameter oil mist particles under centrifugal force produced in said cyclone through a discharge port.
An oil-mist lubricator comprising an oil tank, a fixed displacement pump for sucking and discharging oil in said oil tank, an atomizer for atomizing the oil discharged from said fixed displacement pump, and a cyclone having a conical separating portion and a discharge port, said conical separating portion being arranged to separate the oil mist under centrifugal force by causing larger diameter mist particles to move outwardly away from a center thereof and smaller diameter mist particles to move inwardly toward the center thereof, and said discharge port being arranged to discharge the smaller diameter mist particles that have moved inwardly toward the center of said conical separating portion.
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