Valve Means In Lubricant Passage Patents (Class 92/156)
  • Patent number: 10634246
    Abstract: The hydraulic piston forms a hydraulic chamber with a cylinder and has a cylindrical body which receives a seal and whose external cylindrical surface is housed with little clearance in the cylinder in such a manner as to leave an interstitial space, the cylindrical body being run through by a cooling and lubrication pipe which can be opened or closed by a cooling and lubrication valve which is moved by translation by a valve-actuator in such a manner that fluid can pass via a flow calibration opening from the hydraulic chamber to the interstitial space when the pressure existing in the hydraulic chamber is low and cannot pass when the pressure in the chamber is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventor: Vianney Rabhi
  • Patent number: 9127660
    Abstract: A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a cam, a cylinder block, pistons, a thrust bearing, a rotary valve, and an oil passage. The rotary shaft has an in-shaft passage formed therein. The cam rotates integrally with the rotary shaft. The pistons are coupled to the rotary shaft through the cam. The thrust bearing is provided between the cam and the cylinder block. The thrust bearing includes a first race in contact with the cam, a second race in contact with the cylinder block, and rolling elements retained between the first and second races to form a gap therebetween. The oil passage extends from the gap to the in-shaft passage and includes an oil retaining space formed in at least one of the cam and the cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinichi Sato, Manabu Sugiura, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8534183
    Abstract: A linear motion device includes a housing which extends in a longitudinal direction, and in which a rotor movable in the longitudinal direction is accommodated, the housing including a lubricant supply device, via which the rotor may be supplied with lubricant. The lubricant supply device includes a plunger mounted on the housing and movable transversely to the longitudinal direction, and a spring via which the plunger may be pushed against the rotor, to establish a lubricant supply connection to the rotor via the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Sauer
  • Patent number: 8360742
    Abstract: A swash plate compressor capable of realizing an excellent sliding characteristic when a drive shaft is rotated at high speed, and a high refrigerating capacity when the drive shaft is rotated at low speed, has a release passage for communication between a crank chamber and a suction chamber. The release passage includes a first passage communicated to an oil rich region, in the crank chamber, and a second passage communicated to an oil poor region, in which lubricating oil is small in quantity, in the crank chamber. A valve mechanism that increases an opening ratio of the first passage with respect to the release passage, as a rotational speed of a drive shaft increases, and increases an opening ratio of the second passage with respect to the release passage, as the rotational speed of the drive shaft decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Yoshio Kimoto, Masaki Ota, Nobuaki Hoshino, Masahiro Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8348632
    Abstract: A compressor shaft has a fluid inlet that leads into a fluid inlet tube, is perpendicular to a longitudinal hole in the length of the shaft. An intermediate inlet into the longitudinal hole is located between the fluid inlet and an outlet at an end of the longitudinal hole. A drive plate mounted to the compressor shaft has a protruding drive arm, which uses a holding mechanism to connect to a swash plate. At certain swash plate angles, the intermediate inlet is covered and sealed by the swash plate, or uncovered. The drive arm defines an internal bore and a through slot. At opposite ends, the bore merges into the longitudinal hole and open into the through slot. The holding mechanism and/or swash plate guide covers the bore in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Craig Soliz, Christopher Carleton Bartholomew
  • Patent number: 8276503
    Abstract: An axial piston machine includes a housing and pistons situated in cylinder bores of a rotatable cylinder member, which pistons are supported on a pivoting cradle, the pivoting cradle being supported via at least one pivoting bearing having a bearing gap that has fluid acting on it. The axial piston machine further includes a control and/or regulating device is provided for the control and/or regulation of the fluid pressure in the bearing gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Cichon
  • Patent number: 7509937
    Abstract: An improved lubrication system and method for an internal combustion engine that includes an inertia pump in a piston that reacts to the movement of the piston and conveys a predetermined measure of lubricating oil to the space between the piston and its adjacent cylinder wall immediately below the upper piston rings as the piston reaches top dead center of its stroke cycle. A first embodiment utilizes check valves to responsively open and close passages for the pump in order to control the injection of the proper amount of oil during each cycle. A second embodiment relies on a single moving plunger mass element to provide both the pumping and the valving functions of the inertia pump. A third embodiment utilizes throttle valves to control the injection of the proper amount of oil and allow for a spill path without additional passages. A fourth embodiment utilizes a throttle valve and a check valve in combination to provide secure pumping and a spill path for excess oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Advanced Propulsion Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Hofbauer
  • Patent number: 7441492
    Abstract: Drive mechanism having stroke member (HG) fixed to shaft (W) of a mechanism having eccentric bearing (HL) which connects stroke member (HG) to coupling member (KG) connected by transverse bearing (QL) to pressure member (DG). Included is pressure source (DQ) for fluid lubricant connected to transverse bearing (QL). This connection includes first passage (K1) extending through stroke member (HG) into eccentric bearing (HL) and second passage (K2) extending from eccentric bearing through coupling member (KG) into transverse bearing (QL). A space arrangement provides for conduction of the fluid lubricant to second passage (K2), this space arrangement having an arrangement permitting a flow of the fluid lubricant between first and second passages The applications has been limited to unidirectional pumps. (K1,K2) only within low pressure phases of the fluid lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Inventor: Bernhard Frey
  • Patent number: 7117782
    Abstract: A compressor is provided for guiding lubricating oil separated from the discharged refrigerant by an oil separator to a radial bearing supporting a drive shaft through an oil supply hole. A rotating member that rotates together with the drive shaft is provided adjacent to the radial bearing on the drive shaft, and lubricating oil is supplied to the radial bearing via a gap between an external surface of the rotating member and an internal surface of a circular hole that supports the rotating member. An oil support groove, which alternately communicates with the oil supply hole and the discharge hole every time the rotating member rotates once, is provided on the external surface of the rotating member, and the lubricating oil flowing in from the oil supply hole is intermittently discharged into a drive chamber via the groove and the discharge hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuo Murakami, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Tatsuya Koide, Kenichi Morita
  • Patent number: 6973868
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dry-running piston compressor, in particular for rail vehicles. Said compressor comprises a crankcase (3) for a crankshaft (15) that is rotatably mounted in said crankcase, the latter being provided with at least one pot-type cylinder (4a–4c) comprising a corresponding internal piston (12a, 12e). According to the invention, the crankshaft (15) is connected to one end of a connecting rod (14a, 14c) by means of a connecting rod hearing (16), which forms the first hearing point, in order to convert the rotational displacement into a linear displacement for the piston (12a, 12c) that is mounted at the other end of the connecting rod (14a, 14c) by means of a piston pin bearing (17), which forms the second bearing point. At least one lubricating nipple (18a, 18c) is mounted on the exterior of each connecting rod (14a, 14c) for relubricating the bearing point(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Für Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Michael Schneider, Michael Hartl
  • Patent number: 6862975
    Abstract: A lubricating structure in a piston type compressor has a housing, a device for being lubricated and a rotary shaft. The housing defines an accommodating chamber and a suction pressure region. The device for being lubricated is located in the accommodating chamber. The rotary shaft is rotatably supported by the housing. The rotary shaft includes a supply passage, a communicating port, a lubricating hole and a flow guiding portion. The supply passage transfers fluid that contains lubricant. The communicating port interconnects the supply passage and the suction pressure region. The lubricating hole interconnects the accommodating chamber and the supply passage. The flow guiding portion is formed on a circumferential surface of the supply passage and is located near the lubricating hole. The flow guiding portion guides the lubricant toward the lubricating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shintoku, Shinichi Sato, Akio Saiki, Nobutoshi Banno, Jun Kondo
  • Patent number: 6796778
    Abstract: In a fuel path through which fuel is supplied to a pump-cam chamber accommodating a drive shaft and a cam for lubrication, an annular throttle fuel path is formed between an inside wall of a cylindrical body and an outside wall of a sphere, when the sphere is in contact with a seat provided inside the cylindrical body. The seat is provided with cuts through which the fuel flows when the sphere is in contact with the seat. Even if foreign material mixed in fuel once blocks a part of the annular throttled path, the blockage of the foreign material is released, when the fuel flow stops and the sphere leaves the seat, so that the fuel is always supplied sufficiently to the pump-cam chamber, resulting in preventing burn-in of the drive shaft and the cam, in particular, at a high engine revolution range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Yasutaka Utsumi
  • Patent number: 6318502
    Abstract: In a compressor that can be used for supplying compressed air in motor vehicles and also for stationary systems, permanent oil filling is provided for cooling a compressor pressure area including a cylinder head and for lubricating a transmission area including a drive shaft and swash plate. The pressure area of the compressor that can be heated by the heat of compression and friction and the transmission area of the compressor are separated from one another by check valves with a delivery pump wheel being provided which transports the oil between the transmission area and the pressure area in such fashion that the oil that is heated in the pressure area is cooled in the transmission area. By cooling the oil in the transmission area, it is possible for a middle housing section of the compressor housing, as well as a housing section delimited by a cylinder head and receiving the piston arrangement, to be made of plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Hans Unger
  • Publication number: 20010002979
    Abstract: A piston-driven oil pump mechanism constructed to simplify structure and reduce parts for increased compression efficiency but drastically reduced generating of noise, the mechanism comprising: an oil pump cylinder additionally mounted at one side of a cylinder block formed with a cylinder where a piston is reciprocally driven by explosion in a combustion chamber; an oil pump piston reciprocally driven in the oil pump cylinder by a crank shaft where reciprocal motion of the piston is changed rotary motion; an oil drainage outlet so formed to communicate with an oil gallery above the oil pump cylinder; an oil suction inlet formed adjacent to the oil outlet above the oil pump cylinder for connection to an oil pan; and oil suction and oil drainage valves openably and closeably actuated by a valve train for opening the oil suction inlet when the oil pump cylinder is downwardly actuated to block the oil drainage outlet and for closing the oil suction inlet when the oil pump cylinder is upwardly actuated to open th
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Inventor: Jae-Man Cho
  • Patent number: 6077056
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high pressure reciprocating pump, for a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine, having at least one piston, which is displaceably supported in a piston guide provided in a housing and therein defines a work chamber. Supported in the housing is a drive shaft, on which a crank element is provided on which a stroke ring, is not rotatable in the housing. The crank element is rotatably supported, the stroke ring has a slide bearing face, associated with the piston on which face the piston is supported with a slide face, so that the piston can be acted upon by the drive shaft. To reduce the danger of so-called seizing of the bearing faces moving back and forth on one another when poorly lubricating media such as fuel and in particular gasoline are being pumped, it is provided that a relief chamber, formed by a recess in the slide face disposed on the piston and open toward the slide bearing face on the stroke ring, communicates with the work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Gmelin
  • Patent number: 5743168
    Abstract: A device including a first moving part such as a piston (1) and a second moving part such as a connecting rod (2) with a coupling part (4) therebetween. A low-pressure compressible liquid lubricant feed system delivers a liquid into a chamber (10) with a variable volume between the second part and the coupling part, to form a pump supplying the joint interstice (16) to be lubricated, by a one-way connection (13, 15) and a resilient return member (11), wherein the interstice communicates with a cavity (17) with a fixed volume used as a liquid lubricant source. The volume, in relation to the pump displacement, enables a degree of deflection of the pump piston (3) while achieving a sufficiently high pressure and compensating for leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Inventor: Jean Frederic Melchior
  • Patent number: 5400871
    Abstract: A slideway guide unit for column ways in toolmaking and machine construction comprises a guide unit and a sliding element, secured to it and in contact with a guideway, together with a lubricating device for lubricating the guideway. The invention prevents lubricant losses during assembly and disassembly operations. The sliding element is connected to the guide unit in a positive, impervious and detachable manner, using intermediate sealing elements. The lubricating device displays at least one integrally molded, annular lubricant chamber in the region of the outer wall of the sliding element. At least one of the lubricant chambers is provided with an inlet and each of the lubricant chambers has at least one self-closing outlet for a lubricant, and the outlets penetrate the sliding element and end on the guideway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: KVS Gesellschaft fur Blechumformung mbH
    Inventors: Rainer von Sikorski, Stevan Kilianovic
  • Patent number: 5180291
    Abstract: A radial refrigerant compressor assembly for use in automotive refrigerant systems and capable of being cycled between on and off conditions having a fluid passageway extending between the bottom portion of the discharge chamber which operates at discharge pressure and the suction chamber which operates at a reduced suction pressure. A valve is disposed within the fluid passageway and regulates the flow of lubricant between the discharge and suction chambers under the force of the pressure differential existing between these chambers just after the compressor is cycled on and just after the compressor is cycled off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Scott E. Kent
  • Patent number: 5172623
    Abstract: The rotary machine of the invention includes a series of cylindrical chambers swept by pistons in hydraulic liquid admission-and-discharge cycles and alternately connected to high pressure openings and to low pressure openings during each revolution of the machine, wherein said machine it includes a pre-discharge opening disposed between the high pressure opening and the low pressure opening in that order relative to a direction of rotation of the machine, and wherein the pre-discharge opening is connected by a connecting duct to rotary support devices to cause hydraulic fluid to pass through the rotary support devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Messier-Bugatti
    Inventor: Pierre Poisson
  • Patent number: 5064350
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved reciprocating pump providing oil for low pressure, self-contained oil-filled cables. it is particularly important to have a gas tight system in such a pumping plant since the oil in the storage tank (6) has to be kept under vacuum at all times to keep the oil in a gas-free condition. The air or gas driven oil pump (8) has two piston rod seals (9,10). The area between the two seals is provided with an inlet (11) and outlet opening (12) through which oil can be flushed from the high pressure side of the pump (8) to the top of a storage tank (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Alcatel STK A/S
    Inventor: Sigmund Ege
  • Patent number: 4930404
    Abstract: The very high pressure piston pump can compress a conveying agent (20) to a pressure of approximately 22 kbar. The high pressure sealing comprises a pressure-compensated ice sealing, which operates free of leakage and with reduced friction. To reduce the generally very high frictional forces in the ice sealings, a rotation is superimposed on the translation of the piston (10). The entire machine may be regulated by means of a microprocessor, depending upon the operational parameters and the feed efficiency. Its very high pressure seal has a long service life, even under continued operation in very high pressure ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Inventor: Fritz Zbinden
  • Patent number: 4831979
    Abstract: A wrist pin lubricating system for a multi-cylinder two-cycle engine comprises a passage system for collecting and distributing crankcase condensate to the piston wrist pin bearings. A slot in each piston skirt provides continuous communication between each wrist pin bearing and a passage in the cylinder wall delivering condensate from the engine crankcases. The condensate is collected at the low point of each crankcase and is pumped to the wrist pin bearings by the pressure differential between two crankcases. Check valves are provided in the passages to maintain a directional flow of the condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation
    Inventors: Chester G. DuBois, David F. Haman
  • Patent number: 4762050
    Abstract: The annular transmission block (13) is pressed against the transmission face (8) of the cylinder (5) when the oil pressure arrives via the duct (17). At that moment, one of the two grooves (19 or 10) can supply one of the two ducts (9 or 10) in such a way that the oil pressure is transmitted across the fluid-retaining devices (11and 12) to one of the two ends of the chamber (4). The pressure-maintaining device (25) is then charged by stressing its spring (27) and the piston (6) moves into the chamber (4) of the cylinder, carrying along the clamp chuck (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1988
    Assignee: ACED S.A.
    Inventor: Eric Marchand
  • Patent number: 4696223
    Abstract: A pneumatic pressure actuator including a cylinder assemblage having a pair of metallic cylinder heads and a fiberglass cylinder casing held together by a plurality of tie bolts and nuts. A piston and piston rod reciprocally movable within the cylinder assemblage and including a greased nylon cushion ring and polyurethane wiper ring for reducing frictional wear between the relatively movable surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1987
    Assignee: American Standard Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Link, Bennie M. Gray, Harold L. Shumaker
  • Patent number: 4671743
    Abstract: In the case of piston-machines and in particular those having an elastically deformable sealing tube between the piston and the cylinder, which causes a relatively large structural length of the cylinder-piston arrangement and is provided if necessary with a forced feed for the lubricant, a reduction in the space requirement, in particular the structural length of the cylinder-piston arrangement is achieved by a driving member (30) associated with each piston (20) and embracing the associated cylinder (25) externally and extending over at least part of the length of the cylinder, and frictionally connected, e.g., to a rotating driving mechanism (10). The pulsating secondary space (35) formed by the driving member (30) at the outside of the cylinder (25) is connected for the avoidance of shock pressures because of filling with lubricant liquid flowing away, through a balancing channel (40) of large cross-sectional area to a pressure-balancing chamber (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Hydrowatt Systems Limted
    Inventor: Bernhard Frey
  • Patent number: 4552344
    Abstract: A hydropneumatic suspension unit includes a large diameter flanged road arm spindle which is bolted to the vehicle hull; a road arm has one end rotatably mounted on the road arm spindle and another end mounting a road wheel; a barrier fluid sealed piston is reciprocated relative to a road arm bore to seal an in-arm mechanically operated pneumatic spring which has a gas volume trapped by the barrier fluid sealed piston to support the sprung mass of the vehicle; the sealed piston is defined by a pair of spaced seals and an oil chamber which has an oil charge therein pressurized by preload spring on the piston to displace the oil barrier to both lubricate and preload the pair of spaced seals as the piston is dynamically operated to vary gas compression and produce a resultant pressure on the piston to counteract vertical forces on the road wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventor: D. Dale Johnson
  • Patent number: 4550805
    Abstract: An improved lubrication system for the hydrostatic lubrication of an upper bearing and cylinder wall and piston of a walking beam compressor. The lubrication system introduces oil under pressure, around an upper bearing used for supporting a piston shaft connected to the piston of the walking beam compressor. The system having a pressure relief valve for relieving the pressure in the bearing and discharging excess oil into the top of the compressor and lubricating the cylinder wall and the sides of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Inventor: Gregory L. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 4389922
    Abstract: A lubricating valve for a moveable piston, the valve supplying lubricant at low pressure and being reversible automatically in response to a reversal of the higher pressure which drives the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as represented by the Minister of Defence
    Inventors: Ronald Tatters, John E. Dolman, Donald R. Howell, deceased
  • Patent number: 4384510
    Abstract: The method and the device for the lubricant feed works by introduction of the lubricant into a clearance volume (3b) between a, for example, tubular flexible sealing element of a cylinder-piston arrangement and a bearing surface within the working stroke at comparatively low working pressure. Consequently a comparatively low lubricant feed pressure is adequate. Return of lubricant into the feed is advantageously excluded by a non-return valve arrangement (8d,15).Preferably a non-return valve member (15) is arranged in the region of the mouth (9) from the lubricant feed, whereby low-inertia operation results with secure maintenance of pressure in the lubricant space (3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Hydrowatt Systems Limited
    Inventor: Bernhard Frey
  • Patent number: 4229011
    Abstract: An improved lubrication system is provided for the cylinder of a reciprocatory plunger rod compressor, having a stationary annular seal assembly around said plunger rod. The key feature of this system resides in the incorporation of check valves in lubricant supply passages located internally within the seal assembly surrounding the plunger rod. Preferably, said check valves are located within suitable recesses bored into the rear face of an interior packing cup element of said seal assembly. The use of such internal lubricant check valves protects the lubricator quills, fittings, and other components of the lubrication system against fatigue failures and lengthens the continuous on-line operating life of the entire lubrication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: El Paso Polyolefins Company
    Inventors: Karl W. Wikelski, Henry K. Tyson
  • Patent number: 4218961
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump has a housing whose cylindrical chamber is subdivided by a piston into a fixed-volume compartment and a variable-volume compartment. An orbital crank is connected via a connecting rod to this piston to reciprocate it in the housing and thereby cyclically increase and decrease the volume of the variable-volume compartment. This variable-volume compartment is connected via a downstream conduit and a checkvalve to a supply of liquid lubricant, and to an upstream conduit and an upstream checkvalve both to the fixed-volume compartment and to the joints or bearings at the end of the connecting rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Assignee: Woma-Apparatebau Wolfgang Maasberg & Co. GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Maasberg, Adalbert Huperz
  • Patent number: 4186654
    Abstract: Improved lubrication system for multiplex pumps including lubrication reservoir means, pump means, filtration means and valve means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Halliburton Company
    Inventor: David G. Scott
  • Patent number: 4140442
    Abstract: There is disclosed an improved high pressure pump which includes an improved valve system wherein each of the valve assemblies includes a valve housing having a cup-shaped chamber surrounded by an apertured sidewall, an apertured top wall and a defined open bottom wall, the valve housing further including a peripheral continuous flange carried on the bottom end thereof and extending for a short distance outwardly from the valve housing and having a continuous side edge on an outer surface thereof, the outer surface of the continuous flange provided with a continuous shoulder spaced distance inwardly from the side edge of the flange and bounding the defined open bottom wall of the valve housing, and the valve assembly being completed by a valve cap positioned in arrested arrangement within the valve housing and adapted for reciprocating movement such that the valve cap alternately opens and closes the open bottom wall, and further characterized in that the valve housing including the cup-shaped chamber, the pe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: Perfect Pump Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Philip A. Mulvey
  • Patent number: 4137015
    Abstract: A system for recovering the energy from atmospheric wind wherein a windmill operates a compressor for compressing air which is stored in one or more tanks. The compressed air is used to drive a prime mover coupled by gear means to an electrical generator or other work-producing apparatus. The prime mover is operated by hydraulic fluid responsive to the application of the compressed air to fluid tanks by valve means responsive to the operation of the prime mover. The compressor has a unique means for lubricating the same. Alternatively, the prime mover can be operated by conventional water pressure during periods of little or no wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Inventor: William C. Grossman
  • Patent number: 4044859
    Abstract: In a fluid spring arrangement for a metal forming die assembly of the gas-operated, piston-cylinder type, the surfaces of the piston and cylinder which are in sliding contact are lubricated by lubricant entrained in the pressurized gas directed into the working chamber of the cylinder. The lubricant is contained in an apertured cartridge within the cylinder through which the gas is constrained to flow. A valve plate cooperates with an apertured wall of the cartridge to entrain lubricant in the gas when the flow of gas is into the cylinder and prevent the entrainment of lubricant when the flow of gas is out of the working chamber of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Inventor: Bernard J. Wallis
  • Patent number: 3988969
    Abstract: A rotary hydraulic jack having two jack compartments, comprising a rotary hydraulic joint for the supply of hydraulic liquid to and the evacuation of hydraulic liquid from at least one of the compartments. The hydraulic joint comprises a fixed, hollow cylindrical part and a rotary part supported by bearings with a narrow annular gap between itself and the fixed part. A passageway leads to said compartment and has a portion in each of the fixed and rotary parts, the passageway portion in the rotary part being equipped with at least one non-return device for hydraulic liquid supplied to said compartment. A groove is provided in at least one of the fixed and rotary parts and communicates with the passageway portions in the fixed and rotary parts. Means is provided for supplying gas under pressure to the annular gap betwen the fixed and rotary parts for the purpose of expelling residual oil from the gap after the supply of hydraulic liquid under pressure to said compartment via the passageway has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: La Precision Industrielle
    Inventor: Jean Lioux
  • Patent number: 3982471
    Abstract: An improvement in liquid pumps having a piston with a packing surface which reciprocates in contact with a cylinder, comprising means for increasing the life of the packing by transmitting thereto a small portion of the liquid being pumped, for absorption thereby to cool and lubricate the frictional interface. The structure includes a groove in the piston head and an annular member of flexible material having inherent lubricity which continuously engages the cylinder, but is smaller in cross-section than the groove so that at each reversal of the piston a tortuous passage is briefly opened past the member through the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: Sioux Steam Cleaner Corporation
    Inventor: John F. Finger