US Patent:
20050274576, Dec 15, 2005
Inventors:
Timothy Coder - Effingham KS, US
International Classification:
F16N007/16
Abstract:
A device dispenses lubricant onto a cable as the cable enters a conduit through which the cable is being pulled. An inside wall flares out in a bell-shaped surface to an entry end of the device where the cable enters, the space enclosed by the inside wall being unobstructed. A lubricant dispensing structure dispenses the lubricant automatically at the inside wall and onto the length of cable. An inside wall defines an inside space through which the cable passes from an entry end of the device to an exit end of the device as the cable is being pulled through the conduit. There is an unthreaded outer cylindrical wall at the exit end of the device, the outer wall having a section of smaller diameter at the exit end and a section of larger diameter spaced apart from the exit end, the smaller diameter and the larger diameter sections corresponding to two different inner diameters of two different conduits, the two different conduits sharing a common outer diameter.
