US59037A - Improvement in spindle-steps - Google Patents

Description

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. P. KINNEY, OF SOUTH CARVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPINDLE-STEPS.

Specification forming-part of Letters Patent No. 59,037, dated October 23, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. P. KINNEY, of South Carver, in the county of Plymouth and State -of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Spindle-Step; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an external view of my invention with the step withdrawn from its socket; Fig. 2, a vertical central section of the same with the step fitted in its socket; Fig. 3, a detached external view of the step without the absorbent material.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The object of this invention is to obtain a step for spindles and upright shafting generally which will retain the oil or lubricatingiiuid, prevent the same being thrown about or scattered, thereby preventing the step and the portion of the spindle or shaft which works therein from becoming dry, and consequently from heating, andalso preventing parts adjacentto the step from becoming soiled or greased by the oil.

A represents a metallic socket, which is screwed or fitted in the xture where the spindle or shaft is to be stepped, and B is the step, which is also of metal, and has its interior of a capacity to receive the journal or lower end of the spindie or shaft. This step B has its lower part of a diameter equal to the interior of the socket A, so as to t snugly therein, and 'said lower part is vgrooved circumferentially to receive a wrapping, a, of

cotton yarn, lamp-wick, or other absorbent material, and the bottom of the step is also grooved for the yarn or wick to pass around it. This grooved portion of the step is perforated with holes b. (See Figs. 2 and 3.)

The upper end of the step B is formed with a ange, c, which rests on the top of the socket A, and is grooved in its upper surface to form a cup, d, as shown in Fig. 2, and this cup communicates with the interior ofthe socket A by means of holes c. (See Fig. 2.) The yarn or lamp-wick a about fills the groove in the step B, so that the former will be tlush with the exterior of the latter.

The socket A is supplied with the oil or other fluid lubricating material, and the yarn or wick a becomes saturated with the same and keeps the lower end of the spindle or shaft perfectly lubricated.

' If any oil should be forced up out of the step around the spindle or shaft the cup d will receive it, and it will pass down through the holes b into the socket A.

By this simple device spindles and upright shafting generally will be kept in a perfectlylubricated state, a saving of oil effected, and the injury done by the escape of the same from the step avoided.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desirel to secure by Letters Patent- The socket A, in combination with the step B, the latter being provided at its upper end with a cup, d, which rests on the top of the socket and communicates with the socket by means of one or more holes, e, and also provided with a groove to receive an absorbent material, ai, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth. l

AMOS P. KINNEY. Witnesses:

WM. SAVERY, MARY l). SAVERY

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