Lubrication – Miscellaneous
Patent
1985-01-22
1986-10-28
Smith, Leonard E.
Lubrication
Miscellaneous
1510494, 118 76, 184 20, 184 99, 401268, F16N 1500
Patent
active
046193456
ABSTRACT:
A flexible lubricant applicator for forcibly applying a desired quantity of a lubricant material (such as carbon particles usually of the graphite type, particles of the Teflon type, polytetrafluoroethylene material, or the functional equivalent) to a workpiece surface which is harder than the lubricant material and usually comprising a metallic workpiece surface. It takes the form of a lubricant applicator base member provided with an outwardly extended and positioned lubricant structure and compliant lubricant mounting elements flexibly compliantly mounting same relative to the rest of the base member, with said base member being provided with movement-transmissible force-applying coupling apparatus or structure cooperable for driven engagement with respect to an externally applicable movement-causing apparatus for applying force to the base member when its lubricating structure is placed in abradable engagement with a harder surface of a workpiece, with said lubricating structure being physically softer than the surface of the workpiece adapted to be forcibly mechanically lubricated thereby through forced abrasion of the softer lubricating structure by surface irregularities present in such a workpiece surface. The entire apparatus is adapted for cooperation with a force-applying, relative-movement-causing structure or apparatus which is removably cooperable with the base member for forcibly causing relative movement of the outwardly extended lubricant mounting element (or elements) relative to a desired workpiece surface while flexibly, resiliently, compliantly forcing the lubricant structure thereagainst and, in certain forms, said force-applying structure or apparatus may be included as part of the complete inventive combination.
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