Flow control arrangement in a circulation lubrication system

• US 6,217,004 B1
• Filed: 07/20/1999
• Issued: 04/17/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Safematic Oy (Smiths Group International Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Safematic Oy (Smiths Group International Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tanner, Timo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kaufman, Joseph A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bastianelli, John
• Application Number:
  US09/341,868
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 251/209, 251/212, 251/248, 251/310, 251/294
• US Class Current: 251/209
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 5/0428 with a cylindrical segment mounted around a supply pipe
• CPC Class Codes: F16N 2280/04 Variable-flow or proportional valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16N 27/00 Proportioning devices liquid meters G01F

Abstract

An arrangement in a circulation lubrication system, the arrangement including a control mechanism for controlling the flow of lubricating oil supplied to a part to be lubricated. The control mechanism includes two interfitting tubes with apertures in walls of both of the tubes. The apertures are arranged to provide a flow orifice for the lubricating oil, and the tubes are arranged to be rotatable around their common symmetry axis to the effect that an angular position of the tubes in relation to one another changes and the apertures in the tube walls shift in a circumferential direction of the tubes by their relation to one another, thereby a change in a size of the flow orifice is provided by the apertures. The rotating movements of the tubes are produced by different transmissions.

Claims

1. An arrangement in a circulation lubrication system, comprising:

control means for controlling the flow of lubricating oil supplied to a part to be lubricated,

wherein the control means comprises two interfitting tubes with apertures in walls of both of the tubes, the apertures being arranged to provide a flow orifice for the lubricating oil, and the tubes being arranged to be rotatable around their common symmetry axis to the effect that an angular position of the tubes in relation to one another changes and the apertures in the tube walls shift in a circumferential direction of the tubes providing by means of their relation to one another a change in a size of the flow orifice provided by the apertures, and

wherein rotating movements of the tubes are produced by means of different transmissions.

2. An arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the different transmissions are produced by means of various gears (12, 11) arranged in the tubes (7, 8).

3. An arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein a gears (11, 12) arranged in the tubes are arranged to operate in conjunction with a pair of gears (13, 14) with equal toothing arranged beside the tubes at the parallel axis with the tubes.

4. An arrangement as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pair of gears (13, 14) with equal toothing is arranged to be rotated by means of an adjusting wheel (15).

5. An arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein different transmissions are produced by means of various belt transmission connected to the tubes (7, 8).

6. An arrangement in a circulation lubrication system, comprising:

a control mechanism to control the flow of lubricating oil supplied to a part to be lubricated,

wherein the control mechanism comprises two interfitting tubes with apertures in walls of both of the tubes, the apertures being arranged to provide a flow orifice for the lubricating oil, and the tubes being arranged to be rotatable around their common symmetry axis to the effect that an angular position of the tubes in relation to one another changes and the apertures in the tube walls shift in a circumferential direction of the tubes in relation to one another so as to change a size of the flow orifice provided by the apertures, and

wherein rotating movements of the tubes are produced by rotating gears.

7. An arrangement in a circulation lubrication system, comprising:

a control mechanism to control the flow of lubricating oil supplied to a part to be lubricated,

wherein the control mechanism comprises two interfitting tubes with apertures in walls of both of the tubes, the apertures being arranged to provide a flow orifice for the lubricating oil, and the tubes being arranged to be rotatable around their common symmetry axis to the effect that an angular position of the tubes in relation to one another changes and the apertures in the tube walls shift in a circumferential direction of the tubes in relation to one another so as to change a size of the flow orifice provided by the apertures, and

wherein rotating movements of the tubes are produced by transmission belts.