Greasing device for cables

Apparatus for providing a moving cable with a continuous coating layer of grease of a substantially uniform predetermined thickness, said apparatus comprising:

• wall means defining a grease chamber, said wall means including at least first and second wall portions which are opposite one another and which are formed with respective apertures;
• a first bush member which is releasably mounted in the aperture formed in said first wall portion and through which a cable enters the chamber, the first bush member bounding an annular clearance of predetermined size about the periphery of a cable;
• a second bush member which is releasably mounted, substantially in alignment across the chamber with said first bush member, in the aperture formed in said second wall portion and through which a cable leaves the chamber, said second bush member bounding an annular clearance of predetermined size about the periphery of a cable;
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• pressure means comprising a traveling member that presses through a distance for continuously pressing grease in the chamber towards the annular clearance bounded by said first bush member during the passage of a cable through said bush members.

Apparatus for providing a moving cable with a continuous tubular coating layer of grease of a substantially uniform predetermined thickness, said apparatus comprising:

• first and second substantially cup-shaped members arranged with their rims in contact with each other so as to define a grease chamber, each cup-shaped member being formed at its rim with two recesses which register with respective recesses formed at the rim of the other cup-shaped member to form two apertures at opposite respective sides of the grease chamber;
• clamp means releasably clamping the first and second cupshaped members together;
• a first bush member which is releasably clamped between said cup-shaped members in one of said apertures and through which the cable enters the grease chamber, said first bush member bounding an annular clearance of predetermined size about the periphery of a cable;
• a second bush member which is releasbly clamped between said cup-shaped members in the other of said apertures, substantially in alignment across the grease chamber from the first bush member, and through which the cable leaves the grease chamber, said second bush member bounding an annular clearance of predetermined size about the periphery of the cable;
• and pressure means comprising a traveling member that applies pressure through a distance for continuously pressing grease in the chamber towards the first bush member during the passage of a cable through said bush members.