Abstract: An environmentally sound apparatus for automatically extracting and injecting lubricating fluids is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more sources of lubricating fluid, a waste fluid tank, and a source of compressed air, all with associated fluid-level sensing status switches, as well as other status switches for vacuum and low battery voltage. Signals from such status switches and from a fluid flow monitoring pulse meter are relayed to a central processing unit which operates through a front control panel to control a valved single pump and a plurality of valved lines in fluid communication with the single pump, and to display error messages to front control panel indicators when appropriate. Waste fluid is evacuated, from a crankcase oil pan of an internal combustion engine through one computer-determined arrangement of open valves and fluid lines, to the waste tank.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 1996
Date of Patent:
November 11, 1997
Assignee:
Caylin Research and Development Corp.
Inventors:
Paul M. Elkin, Peter M. Elkin, John Workings, David Azarewicz
Abstract: An environmentally sound apparatus and method for automatically extracting and injecting lubricating fluids is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more sources of lubricating fluid, a waste fluid tank, and a source of compressed air, all with associated fluid-level sensing status switches, as well as other status switches for vacuum and low battery voltage. Signals from such status switches and from a fluid flow monitoring pulse meter are relayed to a central processing unit which operates through a front control panel to control a valved single pump and a plurality of valved lines in fluid communication with the single pump, and to display error messages to front control panel indicators when appropriate. Waste fluid is evacuated, from a crankcase oil pan of an internal combustion engine through one computer-determined arrangement of open valves and fluid lines, to the waste tank.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 6, 1995
Date of Patent:
October 8, 1996
Assignee:
Caylin Research and Development Corp.
Inventors:
Paul M. Elkin, Peter M. Elkin, John Workings, David Azarewicz