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new machine lubrication concept - 9/18/2009 1:27:18 PM   
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Hi

It is worthy to note an MIT study calculated that six to seven percent of America’s Gross National Product is spent repairing wear damage caused by poor lubrication. Those numbers are from a dow corning advertisement. Crunching the numbers using 14 trillion x 7% = 980 billion. Figure about 5 million high school seniors per year in the country. If we do the math in round numbers that is about $200,000 per high school senior each year. If we could just save 50% thru better lubricators we would certainly be more competitive.
I am in the process of developing a pneumatic frl type machine lubricator that makes it possible to detect, monitor and control each and every drop of oil dispensed into the airstream of a machine using compressed air. It is in the prototype stage and has been demonstrated to work as described. You can understand that it has the potential to impact all of industry since it is difficult to manufacture any product in quantity without using various machines that use compressed air. It should reduce downtime and increase thruput due to extended life of all pneumatic machine components including air solenoids, cylinders and air motors. There should be a residual savings of energy as well due to less air loss from reduction of seal wear and constant lubrication. Is this something that you would have applications for or do you know someone who has applications for it? 610-340-4637 brucesu1@verizon.net
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Automotive downtime cost - 9/20/2009 11:15:24 AM   
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Many machinists rely on the auto industry for their bread and butter. $3500 a minute is a common number used for automotive assembly downtime. How many more times do the auto makers need to face bankruptcy before they may want to try the new machine lubrication concept and generate the data that our friends are looking for particularly when they find out that time and time again the line stopped costing over $200,000 an hour just to replace various air cylinders somewhere on the line that has a worn o-ring due to high cycles and no lubrication? Using lubrication would likely cause the line to operate a minimum of 1% quicker do to less friction. That increase in speed could equate to 1 car in 100 built with no labor cost. An automaker would like that cost savings in and of itself. It would seem the easiest sale would be right on the factory floor after those costly occurences. Do those problems increase what the consumer pays for a car? Do those additional costs jeopardize jobs?

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operation explanation and concerns - 9/21/2009 1:23:05 PM   
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I might agree with some others concerning the old way of lubrication not working too well. This is the new way and if the engineer decides he wants a drop for a certain amount of air he can get it and verify it. It should not overlubricate unless it is not programmed right. Incidentally I have seen an air dump valve not work due to a lubricator turned off. I am glad that someone did not have a portion of their body in harms way when the e-stop was hit.

As you know if you equalize the pressure on a drip type venturi lubricator it can not put out a drop. If the drop is enabled and the system cycles of course a drop will fall. If the drop is then detected and that info fed back to the machine control/plc you have the heart of the system. To monitor air volume a value is assigned to the air cylinder volume or in the case of an air motor the revolutions would be sensed. The design engineer then can decide the air/oil ratio and be confident that is occuring due to control and feedback of oil drop detection.

A means to measure air volume use is planned to simplify control at a later time. Besides most of the industrial sector I would like to see the system miniaturized and adapted for field use on weapons like the M-16 so that the oil mist would permit the weapon to be operated wet(oiled) all of the time so that our forces would get more reliable operation and perhaps have the next round available as opposed the action jamning and making the ultimate sacrifice due to airborne perhaps 1 grain of sand/contaminants that could have otherwise been dislodged by a blast of oil mist.












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new machine lubrication concept - 9/22/2009 1:47:23 PM   
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After hearing from my many friends in SW PA, Huntsville Al, Bossier City LA, Texas, Georgia, Sydney Austrailia, and yes, Detroit Mich. I am proudly offering my new machine lubrication concept revelation. Incidentally 7% of global gdp is about 4 Trillion dollars. I am offering a solution that has been a problem for nearly 100 years now. The pneumatics manufacturers may not be happy about it due to the market size for lubricators is about $100 million and the market size for valves and cylinders is over 6 billion dollars. If you make the lubricator work right then the market for valves and cylinders shrinks conciderably. When you have the fox guarding the hen house the results are equal to some of the concerns previously expressed. I am interested to hear from all and intend to help in every instance with my solution since as JFK so eloquently said a rising tide lifts all boats. My contact info is in the original post.

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RE: new machine lubrication concept - 9/23/2009 5:49:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was fortunate in that the original alpha site unit prototype worked as planned the first time the start button was hit for demonstration purposes and everytime thereafter. Do to the nature of it , it is as fail safe as it can get. With the feedback set up when the system calls for a drop the lubricator is enabled and it gets detected when it falls while the machine is cycling. Among people who saw it in operation were Rick Cavalier a national sales manager from Norgren, George Dean an aeronautical sales engineer from Watts, Joe Ahrens President Wiley Vogel North America, Doug Tharp from Penn Tap, and Dave Freeburn who had a masters ME from Cornell I believe who was recommended from DVIRC (Delaware Valley Resource Center) . Incidentally Ford Motor Company Attorneys, I believe Mark Sparshu, and I believe General Council at the time was Roger May who might have been listening as I believe my attorney was called me from world headquaters a while back and asked for exclusivity on a global scale. I did not feel that that was a good idea and looking back I am glad that I felt that way at the time because I feel that it would have hastened the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler as well as others. Incidentally a designer from MIT wanted to assist at that time but he wanted 30%, the customer wanted 30% , the manufacturer wanted 30% which doing the math would have left me and my attorney 5% each and I probably would have been dealt out when it came time to pay the taxes on the first year earnings which my deep pocket partners would have undoubtedly rolled back into the company. The designer sat up on the roundtable and folded his arms and said he was out after I said that I had to have 51% in order to steer the ship. Everyone picked up their brief cases and went home including the straw men. I am in the process of getting my machine in order to cut parts as opposed to having a machine shop do it. The original parts were cut by a fellow at Hines Machine shop in Pottstown Pa. and his name is Wayne Lahr. At the time Wayne asked me to throw a little credit his way and at this point in time thanks for making that possible. I guess that you know that Purdue is part of a bigger University group that studies fluid power. I hoped to get an sbir but there are times when the wright brothers of the world can't get federal help. I spoke to Professor Denton at Purdue an ME back in June and did not recieve the level of cooperation that I might have needed. It is beyond me why the world economy would be exposed to the kind of unecessary risk that is over something that appears to be political at best. My attorney indicated that a patent could be issued after I make the next prototype.

Bruce

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