Sucker rod stripper

A sucker rod stripper comprising a housing defining an axial rod passageway therethrough for a sucker rod of an oil well pump, two rubber packings, which are diametrically arranged around the rod passageway, each of the two rubber packings provided with an axial sucker rod groove for stripping the sucker rod, and two radially extending feed screws each extending through a threaded opening in an side wall of the housing and operatively connected to one of the two rubber packings to advance and retract the rubber packing in radial direction within the housing,

• wherein a damping element is arranged between each of the two feed screws and the corresponding rubber packing to allow retraction of the rubber packings when a thicker section of a sucker rod passes between the rubber packings,
• wherein the sucker rod stripper further comprises two follower plates each abutting to one of the rubber packings and being releasably connected to the damping element,
• wherein the damping element further comprises a compression spring and a feed rod with a first end connected to the compression spring and an opposite second end connected to the rubber packing or the follower plate, and
• wherein the compression spring is entirely arranged in a blind hole of the feed screw and the feed rod is partially arranged in the blind hole.