Dynamic saw lubrication system
AssigneePrecision Automation, Inc.
InventorsSpencer B. Dick, Melissa L. Covel
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Abstract
A lubrication system for a saw may include a lubricator that is mechanically linked to a traveling arm of a saw, such as an up-cut saw. Movement of the saw blade through a first path may result automatically in movement of the lubricator through a second path transverse to the first path. This coupled movement may result in a relatively consistent distance between the lubricator and the periphery of the saw blade, especially as compared with a stationary lubricator.
Claims15
A method of lubricating a circular saw blade of an up-cut saw, the up-cut saw including a traveling arm to which the circular saw blade is mounted, a table, a nozzle connected to the table by a sliding joint, and a mechanical linkage having a first end pivotably coupled to the traveling arm coaxial to a rotation axis of the circular saw blade, and the mechanical linkage having a second end connected to the nozzle, the method comprising:
- pivoting the traveling arm such that the rotation axis of the circular saw blade travels along an arcuate path and the nozzle travels parallel to a path defined by the sliding joint;
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- applying lubricant with the nozzle to a periphery of the circular saw blade.
A method of lubricating a circular saw blade mounted to a traveling arm of an up-cut saw, the method comprising:
- pivoting the traveling arm, such that a rotation axis of the circular saw blade travels along an arcuate path, a first end of a mechanical linkage connected to the traveling arm pivots with respect to the traveling arm about the rotation axis of the circular saw blade, and a nozzle connected to the mechanical linkage travels along a linear path;
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- applying lubricant with the nozzle to a periphery of the circular saw blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.