Lubrication – Lubricators
Patent
1982-12-06
1984-11-06
Brown, David H.
Lubrication
Lubricators
184 5, F16C 3310, F16C 4302
Patent
active
044807171
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a lubricant unit to be applied between the contact surfaces of two bodies, for reducing the friction between them when they are displaced relative each other, especially in the case where one or both bodies comprise porous material.
BACKGROUND ART
In the mutual displacement of bodies it is conventional to apply between them a friction-reducing agent such as oil, grease, soap or the like. A disadvantage with this technique is that the lubricant has a tendency to spread to such places where it is not supposed to be, while also as handling often becomes messy. When the operation which requires the lubricant has been executed, an extra cleaning operation is generally required, in which a solvent of some kind must often be used, and workmen's safety directions relating to air changes etc. must be observed. If one or both bodies is of porous material there is the additional drawback that the lubricant is absorbed by the porous material.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a prefabricated lubricant unit which may be placed between bodies for their displacement relative each other, and which in appropriate cases, when it has served its purpose, can be removed without leaving any traces. There is thus eliminated messy work operations, while a guaranteed good lubricating effect is achieved.
The lubricant unit in accordance with the invention is characterized in that it includes in its unapplied condition at least one film arranged with mutually facing film surfaces and with a lubricant deposited between these surfaces. The contact surface of at least one of the bodies is covered by film after placing the lubricant unit between the bodies in question, and the force required for overcoming friction between the bodies will be dependent only on the friction between a film surface coated with lubricant and one contact surface or between two film surfaces coated with lubricant.
An advantageous application of the invention constitutes a lubricant unit for reducing the friction when inserting a hard body in a hole in an elastic material, where the hole has substantially less dimensions than those of the body. In such a case the hard body can constitute a sleeve used for laying cable through a fire-sealing lead-through filled with elastic material, the hole with the substantially lesser dimensions in this case being one for a cable made in the elastic material of the fire seal, said material usually constituting a silicon foamed rubber.
Preferred embodiments of the invention for precisely this purpose will be described in detail in the following while referring to the appended drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF THE DRAWING
FIG. 1 illustrates in cross section a lubricant unit in the form of a hose or stocking.
FIG. 2 illustrates a sleeve with a lubricant stocking placed over it before insertion in a fire-sealed lead-through, the lubricant stocking and lead-through being illustrated in cross section.
FIG. 3 illustrates the same sleeve with the lubricant stocking as in FIG. 2, but after insertion in the lead-through.
FIG. 4 illustrates a lubricant stocking in cross section, with a slit outer hose, during a stage of manufacture.
FIG. 5 illustrates the same lubricant stocking ready for use.
FIG. 6 illustrates a lubricant stocking in cross section, with a lubricant pad inserted between the film layers, in the form of an intermediate layer impregnated with lubricant.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
In FIG. 1 is shown a cross section of a lubricant unit in the form of a hose or stocking, in which a tube of plastic film has a portion pulled over itself at one end, to form an inner tube 1 and an outer tube 2, partially overlapping the inner tube 1. A lubricant layer 3 has been uniformly applied between the inner and outer tubes.
In FIG. 2 there is illustrated a sleeve 4, and in section there is shown a lubricant stocking pulled over the sleeve and comprising inner tube 1, outer tube 2, and lubricant layer 3 betwee
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patent: 3273668 (1966-09-01), Abel
patent: 4174767 (1979-11-01), Kramer
patent: 4275096 (1981-06-01), Taylor
Legerius Bengt E.
Siebert Hans W.
Brown David H.
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
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