单词 | splash lubrication |
释义 | > as lemmassplash lubrication 2. Used (usually without following hyphen) with reference to a system of lubrication in which oil is distributed throughout an engine in the form of drops initially splashed from a reservoir by the working of certain moving parts. So splash lubrication. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > oiliness > lubricity or oiliness and slipperiness > lubrication > specific systems of lubrication ring oiling1892 splash lubrication1906 1906 Evening Express (Liverpool) 9 Mar. 7/4 If the splash system of lubrication were more generally adopted by the makers there would be no trouble on this score. 1907 F. Strickland Man. Petrol Motors & Motor Cars xvi. 247 The difficulty in splash lubrication is to provide enough oil for the various parts, without having so much in the crank chamber that it works up into the cylinder and produces smoke. 1924 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Cars I. iv. 119 A low speed engine, an over-cooled one, or a splash-lubricated one would require a low-viscosity or ‘thin’ grade [of oil]. 1939 J. I. Clower Lubricants xiv. 358 Splash oiling is widely used on small, vertical and horizontal single-acting machines [sc. compressors]. 1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 123 The flywheel-fed splash lubrication. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VII. 607/1 In splash lubrication, the oil entering the engine flows to troughs into which extensions of the connecting rods dip. < as lemmas |
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