Valve gear oiling system for overhead camshaft engine
CA 2056124 C · Owner: Tecumseh Products Company · Inventors: Hudson, Eric B.
Overview
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A single cylinder, overhead cam, internal combustion engine lubrication system where lubricating oil is pumped from a crankcase oil sump through oil passages to the upper bearings of the crankshaft and camshaft. The oil leaks from the bearings, adheres and flows down the shafts which is flung by rotation thereby lubricating the cam lobes and valve tappets. Oil, accumulating in the cam chamber sump, lubricates the lower camshaft bearing before being pumped through the closed loop circulatory system.
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- Filed November 25, 1991 and granted November 2, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 25, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 25, 2013.
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