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Definition of Oil filter
1. Noun. A filter that removes impurities from the oil used to lubricate an internal-combustion engine.
Group relationships: Force Feed, Force-feed Lubricating System, Lubricating System, Pressure Feed, Pressure-feed Lubricating System
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Filter
Literary usage of Oil filter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Convention by Convention, New York Press Association (1903)
"We use an oil filter that we have made ourselves. ... In my opinion the best oil
filter is one in which the oil to be filtered is fed through a pipe that ..."
2. Vegetable Fats and Oils: Their Practical Preparation, Purification by Louis Edgar Andés, Charles Salter (1902)
"URE'S oil filter. lire proposed an exceedingly practical form of filter for the
mechanical purification of oil. In this apparatus the oil to be filtered is ..."
3. Lubricating Engineer's Handbook: A Reference Book of Data, Tables and by John Rome Battle (1916)
"For compound engines 4^4 to 4^4 gallons per hour for each 100 HP will give a
satisfactory capacity for the oil filter. Tandem engines should be rated as ..."
4. Mechanical World and Engineering Record (1881)
"The filter is placed adjacent to A comparatively inexpensive method of cleaning
batches of oil is provided by the Wells waste oil filter (Fig. ..."
5. Steam Power Plants, Their Design and Construction by Henry Coddington Meyer (1912)
"oil filter. — Furnish and install one No. 18 multiple-type oil filter, having a
daily filtering capacity of not less than 250 gallons. ..."
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