US254902A - Automatic lubricator - Google Patents

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'No Model.)

F. H. BARBER.

AUTOMATIC LQBMGATOR. No. 254,902.

Patented Mar. 14,1882.

UNITED STATES i.

.PAFTITNPv OFFICE.

, rALJ-roMpcri'c sPEcTFIcATIoN l@ming part ofLetters LUBRICATOR.

Patent No. 254,902, dated March 14, 1852.

Application filed January 6, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may, concern: Y

Be it knownthat' I', FRANK H. BARBER, of Holyoke, Hampden g county; Msachnsema; have invented a ynew and useful Improvement 5 in Automatic Luhricators. for Lubricating any Kind of Gearing; and the followingis 'a de scription of myinvention, reference being had yto theaccompanying drawings, which are hereby made part'of this specification. K Figure l shows a seetionof my invention. A A Ais a metal inclosure of gears, of which the bottom side is inclined andV connected by tube'E to pum'pP. The pump P'is worked by y an eccentric, D', fastened on shaft C. `The 1u- 15 bricating material is forced by the pump P through tube-.0 into reservoir-Rwhich discharges through tubeMdireclly upon the gears. The opening S inthe inclosure AIA A inl to enable the `operator to view the gears. Y Y 2o is the yoke which'supports the gear-shafts.

Fig. 2 is a top View of my invention, in which Fig. 3 shows an enlarged section of rcseri'oir B. 0 is the supply-tube connected with the onto the gears. The lubricating ymaterial is forced.' in the direction of, the arrow, thus forming,r a settling-tank.

I claim as my inventionl. The metal inclosureof gears, preventing '3o the flying oof the lubricating material.

2."The connection ofthe same with the forcepump.

3. The reservoir, forming a settling-tank.

In testimony' whereofl have signed my name 35 to this specification in the presence o f two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK n. BARBER.

Witnesses:

J oHN I REARDoN, PORTER UNDERWooD.

the letters correspond with those in 'Fig'. 1.

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