Lubricating oil discharge system

摘要

A lubricating oil discharge port is provided that is improved so well that a quick supply of lubricating oil is not disturbed and that film lubrication is not lost when the engine is started. The lubricating oil discharge port 18a for allowing lubricating oil to flow out of a lubricating oil passage 18 in which an oil pressure source is provided at a lower portion thereof into a bearing bore 12 for a camshaft 10 of an engine is made to open in a top surface of a boss 19 provided so as to protrude from a bottom of a recessed well 15 acting as a lubricating oil reservoir provided in an inner circumferential surface on a lower side of the camshaft bearing bore. With this construction, the level of lubricating oil retained in the recessed well formed in the lower side of the bearing hole can be raised considerably high, and therefore even in an operating condition where the discharge pressure of an oil pump is not sufficiently increased resulting immediately the engine is started, the lubrication of the camshaft can be effected with lubricating oil retained in the lubricating oil reservoir.