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G. F. GEAR.
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GAR AXLE BOX.
No. 305,748.
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Patented Sept. 30, 1884.
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UNrTne STaTes PATENT @rrrcs.
GILES F. GEAR, OF CLEVELAND, QHIO.
CAR-AXLE 80X.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 305,748, dated September 30, 1884:.
Application ?led September 19, 1981;. (No model.)
I is a bar similar in shape to the cross-piece
Be it known that l, GILES F. GEAR, of Cleve H, which is also secured to the end of thejour
land, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of nal. by the bolt G, alluded to. .
T.) (.L/Z 1071/07/21 it may concern/.
Ohio, have invented new and useful Improve’
Between the bar I and the cross‘piece H is ‘
ments in Railway Journal-Box Lubricators; a space formed by the thickness of a diamond
and I do hereby declare that the following is shape boss, J, which may t'orm a part of the
bar of the ring, as shown in Fig. 5, or it may
a full and complete description thereof.
The aforesaid improvement is for the pur be an integral part of the bar I, as may be de 60
pose of rendering the journal of the car-axle sired. In the space formed by the said boss
self-lubricating, thereby avoiding a heating of are titted, so as to move freely therein, a pair
thejournal, a waste of oil, and delay in the
movement of the train, which sometimes oc
cur when the journal is supplied with a lubri
cant in the ordinary way.
The invention is an improvement on a de
vice for the same purpose for which a patent
of slotted arms, K and L, which are secured
in place by pins brand 0, passing through the
bar I into the slots of the arms, thence into
the cross-piece of the ring, as seen in the draw
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ings.
It will be observed that one end of each of
was granted to me, bearing date the 5th day of the arms is pointed, as shown at d, and that
the opposite ends of the arms terminate in a.
October 1880, No. 232,811.
The improvement above alluded to fully head, 6, in which are secured at right angles to
described in the following speci?cation, and the arms wire brushes, respectively M and N.
shown in the annexed drawings, making a Said brushes project inwardly from the arms
part of this speci?cation, inwhich
Figure 1 represents an end view of a car»
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so far as to extend over the end of the journal,
or the collar thereof, as shown in Fig. 2. The
axle journal, journal-box, and case inclosing use of said brushes will presently be shown.
In each side of the journal-box (1, above al
the same, and having applied thereto the im
provement above mentioned. Fig. 2 is aside luded to, is a groove, m, Fig. 3. Said figure
view, partly in section. Figs. 3, at, and 5 are represents a longitudinal section of the jour
nal-box, showing one of the grooves, an’, in the
detached sections.
Like letters of reference refer to like parts side thereof. Said groove is indicated by the
' dotted lines m in Fig. 1i.
From the ends or’ the shoulders O of the
A represents a case in which the journal B
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ournal~box
extends down to the groove on an
and, journal box or brass O are inclosed; also
an oil-reservoir, 1), located in the case imme oil-passage, I’.
In Fig. 3 a portion of the journal-box is rep
diately under the journal, as seen in Fig. 2.
In said ?gure the case and the reservoir are resented as broken away that the oil~passage
represented in sectional views. The exact may be seen. 'ly said passage the inner side
construction of these several parts, as shown of the journalbox is in open communication
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in the drawings, is not insisted upon, as the with the outside thereof.
in the several views.
Q, Fig. 1, is a guard, consisting ot’ a semi
stances may 1'cquire,without changing the na ring of metal extending around over the end
ture of the invention, which consists in attach of the journal, and wide enough to cover the
ing to the end of the journal 13 a lubricator brushes and mechanism above described as
attached to the end of the journal. Below
constructed as follows:
E is a ring, the diameter of which coincides said
consisting
mechanism
of a section
and brushes
of a ring
is of
a guard,
about the
with that ot'the end of the collar F of the jour
nal, and which is secured thereto by a screw same width as the ring Q. The ring R is not
holt, G, passing through. a cross~piece, H, ex‘ a true semicircle, its vertical radius being
tending across the ring, as shown .in Fig. 5. longer than the horizontal radii, as seen in
I The ring is further secured to the journal by Fig. 1, thereby making a deep curve below
the end 01' the j onrnal, into which may drop
50 a dowel-pin (indicated by the dotted line a) ‘the
slotted arms K and L, with their respect
projecting from the said cross-piece into the
ive
brushes. Said ring It may form an in"
end of the journal.
same may be more or less modi?ed as circum
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tegral part of the axle‘case A by being cast
The object in pointing the ends of the arms
therewith; or it may be a separate part and K and L, and for giving a diamond shape to
inserted in the ease and made fast therein by the boss J, is to prevent the boss from inter
any suitable means.
fering with the radial movement of the arms.
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The oilreservoir 1), above referred to, is a The pointed ends of the arms and angular cor~
vessel occupying the space under the journal. ners of the boss allow the arms to slip by said
The upper side of the reservoir-is concave, to boss when the arms are pushed inward by the
adapt it to the shape of the journal, so that guard-rings.
. the'sides thereof may extend up around it
IVhat Iclaim as of my invention, and desire
about half of its diameter, but. without touch to secure by Letters Patent, is—‘
ing. Said reservoir is entirely closed, except
I. In journals for railway~car axles, the ring
ingan opening, a’, near the bottom, whereby E secured to the end of the journal of said
it is in open communication with the space axle, bar I, angular boss interposed between
A’ in the front end of the case, in which the the said bar and ring, slotted arms secured
brushes are arranged.
between the ring and bar by pins inserted in
Practically the operation of the abovede the slots of the arms, that they may have a free
scribed lubricating device is thus: The reser radial movement, and said arms having one
voir D is ?lled with oil by pouring it into the end pointed, and the opposite end provided
space A’, which runs therefrom into the res with a brush, in combination with the journal
ervoir D through the opening a’. The oil and journal-box, substantially as described,‘
vcssel being full, the space A’ will also be full and for the purpose set forth.
up to the same height, in which the brushes
2. The semicircular guard Q and guard R,
will be immersed repeatedly as they are car arranged in relation to and in combination
ried around by the revolving axle, the cen with the revolving radial movable arms and
trifugal force of which will cause the arms K their terminal brushes, substantially as de
and L to throw out radially to the guardrings scribed, and for the purpose set forth.
Q and R, by which the arms are prevented
3. In railway-car-axle journals and axle.
from extending into the corners of the case boxes, the combination therewith of the ring
and impinging against the sides thereof,- but E, bar I, and angular boss interposed between
at the same time the arms are permitted to
dip into the oil in the space A’ by the major
length of the radius of the ring or guard B,
so that when the oil may have become low in
the space A’ and reservoir‘ the brushes will
the said bar and ring, slotted revolving ra<
dial movable arms, with their terminal brush
es and pointed ends, guard-rings,oil-reservoir,
and j ournal~boX provided with a groove along
each of its inner edges, and oil-passages ex
continue to dip into the oil, which, as they tending from the outer side of the said jour'
revolve, each takes up a portion thereof and lléthbOX to the said grooves, respectively, and
scatters it upon the end of thejournal-box 0, ease inclosing the lubricating1nechanism,con
portions of which ?ow down the openings I? structed and arranged to operate in the man
into the grooves m, along which it ?ows the ner substantially as described, and for the pur
length of the journal in contact therewith, pose specified.
thereby automatically supplying it with the
In testimony whereof I at?x mysignaturein
lubricant during the revolving movement of presence of two witnesses.
the journal. If the lubricant is supplied to
the journal in excess ofaetual need, the excess
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of oil drips from the journal onto the top of '
the reservoir, from which it ?ows back into
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the space A’, to be again- carried up by the
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brushes to be again used in lubricating, as
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hereinbefore mentioned.
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