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Encyclopedia > Displacement lubricator

The displacement lubricator is an automatic oil lubricator for steam engines first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1860 by John Ramsbottom. It operates by allowing steam to enter a closed vessel containing oil. After condensing, the water sinks to the bottom of the vessel, causing the oil to rise and overflow into delivery pipes. In a steam locomotive, it was often positioned in the cab where the rate of oil feed could be observed. A steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the thermal energy that exists in steam, converting it to mechanical work. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Great Western Railway No. ...


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Lubricators (443 words)
Lubricator is required on all moving parts of a steam locomotive.
The Roscoe displacement lubricator, show in Figure 39, functions because of the difference in specific gravity between water and oil.
The pump ram is activated by a scotch yoke or a cam / disc arrangement.
Contact lubricator with metered supply - Patent 5849086 (3313 words)
Apparatus for applying liquid to a workpiece surface by contact, including at least one freely rotatable roller having a cylindrical outer wall whose surface is arranged to contact workpieces or workstock, including elongated sheet stock, and to be rotatably moved thereby while transferring liquid to the surface of the workstock or workpiece by contact.
At times, such liquid lubricants and the like may be applied as a spray or mist, but in other instances it is more advantageous to transfer the liquid by contact with an applicator member which makes contact with the advancing workpieces as they pass a particular location.
In most instances, the liquid lubricant or the like is applied to such rollers from the outside, by spraying the roller surface or by disposing a drip tube above it from which liquid may fall by gravity onto the surface of the roller.
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