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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1986
Peter G Kronich, Sheboygan, WI (US);
Tecumseh Products Company, Tecumseh, MI (US);
Abstract
A combination counterbalancing and oil slinger mechanism located in the sump of a horizontal shaft internal combustion engine having two slinger counterweights radially connected on a slinger shaft. As the counterbalancing oil slinger rotates, it both counterbalances the inertial forces created by the moving parts of the engine and also lubricates the same moving parts by throwing lubricating fluid towards them. A deflector situated partially above the counterbalancing oil slinger directs the lubricating fluid towards the critical bearing points of the moving parts. A restricting wall in the engine sump controls the quantity of lubricating fluid flowing into the oil slinger well.