From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
List of five claims for a Letters Patent concerning lubricated bearing combinations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\2\ scan0261 | |
| Date | 19th December 1935 guessed | |
| Having thus described the invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. The combination with a bearing having members arranged to roll between races and a retaining member for the rolling members, of lubricating means comprising a distributing member of hard porous material in contact with the rolling member to supply lubricant thereto, and a reservoir member carried by the retaining member adapted to supply lubricant to the distributing member. 2. The combination with a bearing having a rolling member and a retainer therefor, of a distributing member of permeable metallic material in contact with the rolling member, and means carried by the retainer to supply lubricant to said permeable member. 3. The combination with a bearing having a rolling member and a retainer therefor, of a lubricating device comprising a distributing device of rigid porous material associated with the rolling member, and absorbtive reservoir means adapted to supply lubricant to the distributing device. 4. The combination with a ball bearing having a ball retainer, of a lubricating device comprising a lubricant permeable member of stiff porous material in contact with each ball, and lubricant absorbtive means mounted on the retainer adapted to supply lubricant to the permeable member. 5. The combination with a ball bearing having a ball retainer, of a lubricating device comprising a rigid collar of porous material surrounding each ball to conduct lubricant thereto, and absorbtive storage means on the retainer to carry lubricant and supply it to said collars. | ||