Structure of portable oil sump residual engine oil suction pump device

• US 5,002,154 A
• Filed: 04/30/1990
• Issued: 03/26/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tien-Tsai Tseng
• Original Assignee: Tien-Tsai Tseng
• Inventors: Chen, Kuo-Neng
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazarus, Ira S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cariaso, Alan B.
• Application Number:
  US07/516,314
• Time in Patent Office: 330 Days
• Field of Search: 184/108, 184/1.5, 184/28, 141/65, 141/27, 141/26, 141/25, 141/59, 141/198, 141/216, 141/212, 141/229, 222/385
• US Class Current: 184/1.5
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 11/045 Removing lubricant by suction

Abstract

A portable oil sump residual engine oil suction pump device, which comprises an oil reservoir having received therein a pump body to change the inner space of the oil reservoir into a negative pressure status so as to efficiently induce residual engine oil from an oil sump into the oil reservoir. A floating choke valve is fastened inside the oil reservoir at an upper position, which follows the filling of certain quantity of engine oil in the oil reservoir to block up a passage way to the pump body so as to stop the formation of vacuum and prohibit from entering of engine oil in the pump body.

Claims

1. A portable oil sump residual engine oil suction pump device, comprising:

an upper cover having a vertical wall downwardly around its periphery, a through-hole through its central axis and surrounded by a circular flange, an elongated rib extending from said circular flange and defining therein an air channel, said air channel having its both ends respectively in communication with said through-hole and the bottom surface of said upper cover, and a circular projection upstanding therefrom at the center;

a base having a vertical wall upwards around its periphery, a through-hole at its center and surrounded by an upstanding, circular projection, the through-hole of said base having an one-way valve set therein;

an oil reservoir being a cylindrical container, having its both ends respectively squeezed in between said base and said upper cover and sealed with an O-ring each at both ends thereof;

a pump body being received inside said oil reservoir and having its two opposite ends respectively fastened in the circular projection of said upper cover and the circular projection of said base and and sealed with an O-ring each at both ends thereof;

a pressure bar being an elongated rod inserted in said pump body with its top end protruding beyond said upper cover for the connection thereto of a handhold and with its bottom end coupled with an one-way valve permitting the upper space therein to be in communication with said air channel;

a floating choke valve having an arch-shaped valve seat fixedly secured to the bottom surface of said upper cover with a guide tube firmly set therein, a cylindrical float movably inserted in said guide tube of said valve seat, and a valve body fastened in said cylindrical float from the top and disposed right below an air outlet hole on said upper cover beneath said rib;

characterized in that the reciprocating up-and-down motion of said pressure bar forces said oil reservoir to exhaust air through an air exhaust hole on the bottom of said pump body so as to turn the inner space of said oil reservoir into a negative pressure status for inducing engine oil from an oil sump into said oil reservoir through an oil suction hole on said upper cover.

2. A portable oil sump residual engine oil suction pump device as claimed in claim 1, wherein an air extraction hole is made on said upper cover in communication with said air channel with an air pipe secured thereto for connection to a vacuum pump or an air intake manifold of a car engine;

and said air channel has three one-way valves respectively fastened therein at three locations to control the passage through the inlet orifice and outlet orifice at its two opposite ends and the passage through said air extraction hole.

3. A portable oil sump residual engine oil suction pump device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said upper cover and said base have each a plurality of lugs transversely extending outward from its periphery with a through-hole each vertically piercing therethrough so that a plurality of bolts are vertically fastened through the lugs of said upper cover in the lugs of said base to firmly secure said upper cover and said base together.