Point of lube monitor
CA 2045751 A1 · Owner: Kamis, Peter A. · Inventors: Kamis, Peter A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A piston-type point of lubrication magnetic flow indicator providing a barrel interfit with a bushing having a cylinder portion penetrating the barrel coaxially and a magnetic piston which reciprocates closely interfit inside the cylinder portion of the bushing. Lube oil enters an inlet port of the bushing, flows through a check valve into the cylinder portion, and impinges on one end of the magnetic piston. The impinging causes the magnetic piston to move in the cylinder portion uncovering at least one port formed through the cylinder portion which opens the cylinder portion to the barrel, directing flow thereto. The lubricating oil flows through the barrel and out of an aperture formed at …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 26, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 26, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 26, 2013.
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