US42361A - Improved oil-stone fountain - Google Patents

Description

AJTENT ENCE,

JAMES FUNK, 0F V'ERLY, ILLINOIS.

lMPPtOVED OIL-STONE FOUNTAIN.

Specification forming part of Let-ters Patent No. 423GB, dated April 19, 1864.

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, J AMES FUNK, of Beverly, in the count-y of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful OilFountain Attachment for Oil-Stones; and l. do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side sectional view of my invention, taken in the line wir, Eig. 2; Fig. 2,` a plan or top view of the same with the cover Aof the oil-fountain removed; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line g/ y, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate correl spending parts in the several figures. i

This invention consists in combining an oilfountain with an oil-stone in such a manner that the stone can be readily supplied with oil at any time as required, While at the same time the two'combined articles will not exceed much, if any, the dimensions of an ordinary cased oil-stone provided with a lid or cover.

The object of the invention is to dispense with the usual oilcan now used by joiners and other mechanics for supplying stones with oil by combining the can with the stone, thereby saving the trouble of carrying a detached oil-can in a tool-box, which monopolizes some room, and also saving the room or l or space now occupied by such article on the work-bench.

To enable those skilled in the art to -fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents an oil-stone, which is itted in a stock, B, of wood or other proper material, provided with a lid or cover, U, which may be attached to B by means of hinges a.

Within the lid or cover C there is inserted a box, D, which may be constructed of sheet metal and of rectangular form, and of such dimensions as to extend the greater portion of the length of the cover and to project a trifle above it, and to be nearly equal in width to the cover. Thel upper edge of this box D is provided with a ange, b, which extends all around it at right angles to its sides and ends to receive the screws e of the lid or cover d of the box, a suitable packing being interposed between the'iiange b and the lid or cover, to prevent the escape of oil from the box D, the latter being an oil-fountain.

rThe box D is not permanently iitted in the lid or cover C. It simply rests upon cleats e, the mortise or' hole which is made in O to receive the box D extending entirely through the former, and to each side of the box D there is attached a spring laver-catch, E, which, when the box D is inserted in C, catch under rods f j' in the sides of the latter and secure D in C, (see Fig. 3,) the box being lreadily withdrawn from C at any time by pressing inward ortoward the box D the upper ends of the catches E E. v

The bottom of the box D from the sides and ends of the latter isinclined, as shown at g, a horizontal part, h, being allowed at the center of the bottom, and through this horizontal part h two small holes, i fi', are made, and a hole, j, is made through the lid d. The hole t" in the bottom and the hole j in the lid may be in the same vertical line.

F is a shaft, which is fitted transversely in the upper part of the box D, one end of said shaft being fitted in a bearing, k, at the inner surface ot' the box, at one side, and the other end passing through the opposite side of the box and having a thumb-wheel, Gr, upon it. The shaft F has two collars, l I, placed upon it-one at the outer and the other at the inner side of the box-said collars being secured. in position by set-screws, and having packing interposed between them and the side of the box, to prevent the escape of oil. On this shaft F there is fitted a wheel, G, which is provided with teeth m, having one side beveled, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

H represents a vertical plate, which has a journal, n, at its lower end, said journal being stepped at o, at the center of the horizontal part, h, of the bottom of the box, the upper end of said plate being provided with a journal, p, which works in across-piece, g, at the upper part of the box D. rlhis plate H has a projection, r, extending out laterally from it and provided with an upper beveled surface, against which the teeth m of the wheel G act. The plate H has a spiral spring, I, attached to it, which spring has a tendency to keep the plate H in contact with the wheel G.

The shaft F passes through a hole, s,in the plate H, said hole being sufficiently largeso as not to admit of the shaft F interfering with the movement of the plate H.

At one end of the plate H there is a vertical tube, I, in which arod, t, is fitted loosely and bears against a spiral spring. The rod t has a disk or head at its lower end, said disk or head being covered with cork, w, or other suitable material, to serve as a stopper for the hole i in the bottom of the box D, the spring keeping the cork w pressed down upon h. A similar tube, J, is at the opposite end of the plate H, and said tubeJ is provided with ahead, a', both atits top an dbottom, the heads c being also covered with cork, b, which are pressed, the lower one by a spring, u, down over the hole t" in the part h of the bottom of the box, and the other pressed over the hole j in the lid d of the box I).

The holes i, i', and j are all covered by the corks fw b b' where the plate H bears against `the wheel G, and when the stone requires to be oiled the shaft Fis turned so that the teeth m will act against the projection 1' of plate H, and move said plate so that the corks w b' b will be shoved oft' from the holes z i j, and oil allowed to escape through the holes it" upon the stone, air being admitted into box D through the'hole j, to allow the oil to escape through the holesz i. The shaft F may be rotated any number of times until a sufficient quantity of oil is deposited upon the stone, and in case the oil should become thick in cold weather, so as to prevent its free ilow from the box D, the latter may be readily removed from the lid or cover C and placed near-a stove, so as to warm and render the oil fluid.

I would remark that one of the holes, fior i', may be provided with a slide or valve, ax, so that one of said holes may be cut o' or closed when only one is required to be open.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The employment or use, with an oil-stone, of an oilffouutain provided with valves and placed in the lid or cover of the case of the oil-stone, to admit of the stone being supplied with oil from the fountain, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The vibratin g plate H, provided with the yielding heads covered with cork or other` suitable material, in combination with the yrevolving toothed wheel G and the holes i, i', and

j, made, respectively, in the bottom and top of the oil-fountain, all arranged to operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose

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