Service lubricating of metal haulage cables

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus and method to lubricate metal haulage cables having a lubricant recirculating system and a spray enclosure. The enclosure generally comprises: entrance and exit openings in replaceable bearing surfaces; entrance brushes for cleaning the surface of the entering cable; a plurality of high pressure spray nozzles injecting lubricant into the cable as the cable traverses the enclosure with means to adjust the nozzle-to-cable surface distance; and exit brushes for removing excess lubricant from the cable as the cable exits the enclosure. The spray nozzles spray the lubricant into the cable whenever the cable is worked or reeled onto a storage drum. The recirculating system recovers, …