# US 2017/0284599 A1 · Cleaning and lubricating device for interior and exterior guide track systems > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0284599 A1 - Document ID: US20170284599A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/475,105 - Filed: 2017-03-30 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-30 - Inventors: Dennis Gail Tilton; Joanne Bystricky Arnett - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170284599A1 ## CPC - F16N 19/00: Lubricant containers for use in lubricators or lubrication systems - B63B 15/0083: {Masts for sailing ships or boats} - B63H 9/08: Connections of sails to masts, spars, or the like - F16N 7/12: with feed by capillary action, e.g. by wicks - B63H 2009/086: {by sliders, i.e. by shoes sliding in, or guided by channels, tracks or rails; for connecting luffs, leeches, battens, or the like to masts, spars or booms} - F16N 2210/06: Marine - F16N: LUBRICATING - B63B: SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING (arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning B63J2/00; floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F9/06) - B63H: MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING (propulsion of air-cushion vehicles B60V1/14; specially adapted for submarines, other than nuclear propulsion, B63G; specially adapted for torpedoes F42B19/00) ## Abstract In the art of sailing vessels, various styled tracks retain an edge of a sail. A retained sail edge is prone to fouling by environmental conditions and becomes exceptionally difficult to remove. A disclosed Foiling Rabbit 100 or track conditioner, cleans, lubricates and otherwise services the sail void area of a track or other sail retention area. A cleaning wick 400 may have main body 430 attached to a thickened or rolled interior edge and outer surface 430. An inner edge of the wick may be retained within a wick retaining cartridge 7. A lubricant cartridge 1 may be attached to the wick retaining cartridge. The lubricant cartridge may define one or more reservoir bodies 2a which may contain a lubricant and cleaning fluid. By use of various direct and indirect channels, and controlled capillary action, lubricant flows from the lubricant cartridge to a workpiece removes debris and lubricates. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A lubrication system (100) comprising: a) a lubricant cartridge (1) defining a reservoir receptacle (2), the reservoir receptacle being the top opening for a reservoir body (2A) the reservoir body defined within the lubricant cartridge; a reservoir retainer lock (12) slideably connected to the lubricant cartridge and covering the reservoir receptacle, the reservoir retainer lock defining one or more vent voids (13), the reservoir retainer lock further secured to the lubricant cartridge by use of a vent port lock (14) the vent port lock comprising one or more security toggles (15) and the vent port lock further comprising traction ribs (17), the lubricant cartridge defining a reservoir retainer void (12A) the reservoir retainer void accepting and retaining the reservoir retainer lock and the vent port lock; the lubricant cartridge further defining a body connector tab (4) the body connector tab defining a cartridge lock slot (10), the cartridge lock slot configured to accept a cartridge lock (10A), the cartridge lock defining a lock tool access void (11), the lubricant cartridge further defining a cartridge lock access port (10B); b) a wick retaining cartridge (7) defining a body connector slot (4A), the body connector slot comporting to and accepting the body connector tab, so as to slideably connect the wick retaining cartridge to the lubricant cartridge; the wick retaining cartridge further defining wick slots (9) upon exterior walls of the wick retaining cartridge; the wick retaining cartridge further defining a capillary distribution manifold (8A), the capillary distribution manifold aligned with the reservoir communication port so as to accept fluid from the reservoir communication port, the wick retaining cartridge further defining a capillary channel (5) and a plurality of capillary ports (5A); the capillary distribution manifold, capillary channel and plurality of capillary ports in fluid communication so as to transmit fluid to a wick retaining void (6), the wick retaining void defined within the wick retaining cartridge and the wick retaining void connected to the wick slots. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the vent port lock further defines an atmosphere stop (16). ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the wick retaining cartridge defines a towable attachment void (3) and the lubricant cartridge defines a towable attachment void (330). ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further including a wick (400) the wick comprising a main body (450) disposed within a wick slot, the wick further comprising an inner surface (470) disposed within the wick retaining void. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The system of claim 4 wherein the wick further comprises an outer surface (430). ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5 wherein the outer surface of the wick is of greater thickness than the main body of the wick. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The system of claim 6 wherein a curved section (475) of the main body of the wick is disposed between the inner surface and the outer surface. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The system of claim 6 wherein the outer surface of the wick comports to a void defined within a workpiece.