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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1995
Gary DeWachter, Greenville, SC (US);
Reliance Electric Industrial Co., Greenville, SC (US);
Abstract
A lubrication system for a speed reducer, gear box, or the like. It may also be utilized as a retrofit lubrication system for speed reducers, gear boxes or the like having no filtering means previously provided for in an original design. An adapter plate is mounted to the housing of the speed reducer, gearbox or the like proximal to a shaft which is supported in the gear box. A lubricant filter is mounted to an outer surface of the adapter plate, lubricant directing bores are provided that direct flow of lubricant from a lower portion of the gear box through the adapter plate and into the filter which is pumped from the filter back into the gear box.