Oil change nozzle

• US 4,137,998 A
• Filed: 08/30/1977
• Issued: 02/06/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rokutaro Kusada
• Original Assignee: Rokutaro Kusada
• Inventors: Kusada, Rokutaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, David H.
• Application Number:
  US05/829,097
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 166/186, 166/187, 166/191, 184/15 A, 184/105 B, 184/105 A, 184/105 C, 184/14, 184/1 R
• US Class Current: 184/14
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/15 Mounting devices, e.g. bushings, axles, bearings, sealings with lubrication means B62D55/092
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 11/04 Filling or draining lubricant of or from machines or engines
• CPC Class Codes: F16N 37/003 for filling bearings

Abstract

An oil change nozzle used particularly for guide rollers or the like on caterpillared vehicles. Two inflatable tubes mounted on the nozzle are inflated by the oil under pressure into a sealing contact with the inner wall of a hole in the shaft in such rollers. Old oil is pushed out by new oil with no possibility of mixing with new oil.

This invention relates to an oil change nozzle or tool used for the change of lubricating oil particularly for the shafts of guide rollers on vehicles with a caterpillar such as bulldozers.

A conventional manner for changing oil in such rollers was to first tilt them to drain old oil and return them back to their normal position and fill them with new oil. This required much time and labor.

An object of this invention is to provide an oil change nozzle convenient to use and compact in size.

Claims

1. An oil change nozzle comprising:

a body having a shouldered center hole to form a smaller diameter hole and a larger diameter hole,

a pipe having one end screwed in said larger diameter hole in the body to form an annular passage between a smaller diameter end thereof and the inner wall of said larger diameter hole,

two inflatable tubes mounted on said pipe spaced from each other and having each end sealed so as to be oil-tight,

said pipe having first and second radial passages to inflate said two tubes with oil under pressure to seal the area between said two tubes,

a check valve provided in said pipe at the end thereof opposite the end in said body,

the interior of said pipe being longitudinally partitioned to form an oil supply passage and an oil drain passage,

said pipe having third and fourth radial passages communicating with said oil drain passage, said fourth radial passage communicating with said annular passage, and

said body having an oil drain port communication with said annular passage.