Lubrication system for a transmission mechanism

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A lubrication system for a mechanism having a rotatable shaft supported in a housing by bearings. The lubrication system includes an open-ended axially extending fluid passage defined by the shaft a fluid, conduit defined by the housing and a disc-shaped fluid, diverter for fluidically joining the fluid passage in the shaft with the fluid conduit in the housing. The fluid diverter is arranged at the open-end of the shaft and includes a concentric hollow pilot portion extending at least partially, within the fluid passage in the shaft, The fluid diverter defines a series of openended channels which radially extend from and are joined in fluid communication with the hollow pilot portion. At …