Introduction to Series Progressive
The series progressive automatic lubrication system is designed to provide a more reliable and efficient way to lubricate machinery bearings. By centralizing all of a machine’s bearing points, the amount of time needed to properly maintain a piece of equipment is greatly reduced. Downtime due to bearing related failures decreases also. Worker safety is improved by virtually eliminating the need to remove safety guarding or to crawl into a piece of equipment to access those hard-to-reach grease points. All of the grease points are lubricated by one safe and easily accessible location outside of the safety guarding.
The 40 Series Valve is the heart of each series progressive automatic lubrication system. Each 40 Series Valve incorporates a number of metering pins that dispense a highly repeatable volume of lubricant to each outlet. Visual confirmation that the valve has completed a full cycle is provided by a cycle indicator pin.
Crossporting a 40 Series Valve
Each outlet on the 40 Series Valve is marked with a number. By placing an M10x1 closure plug in an outlet, the lubricant is redirected to the next adjacent outlet in descending numerical order. Crossporting allows multiple outlets to be combined together to meet the demands of larger lube points. Special attention must be paid to never plug outlets 1 and 2. There are no crossport passages in either of these outlets, plugging them will cause the valve to stop working.
In figure 1, outlets number 5 and 3 have closure plugs causing the lubricant volume of each to be redirected to outlet 1.
40 Series Divider Valves are available with or without a cycle indicator pin, which provides visual indication of proper system function. Our water-based, zinc and aluminum-rich coating gives the 40 Series Valves a corrosion resistance of 720 hours per ASTM B117. CHROMIUM FREE – RoHS & ELV Compliant
*Note: Outlets 1 and 2 must be used on each of the models listed above to ensure proper system function.
*Note: Valve outlet fittings must be used for lubricant outlets on 40 Series Valves.