Rod packing

An elastomeric packing for stripping oil from an elongated member extended through the packing as the member is removed from an oil well comprising:

• a pair of packing halves detachably interconnected at a central plane of the packing, and each including a planar central face substantially coplanar with said central plane of the packing and having a semicylindrical groove formed centrally therein and a guiding cavity communicating with one end of said semicylindrical groove for guiding said elongated member into said cavity as said member is pulled through the packing;
• a plurality of spaced, cylindrical pins projecting normal to said central planar face and disposed to one side of said semicylindrical groove;
• a plurality of spaced cavities on the opposite side of said semicylindrical groove from said pins, each of said cavities being dimensioned and configured to mate with, and tightly receive, one of said pins;
• a pair of opposed end faces intersecting said planar central face, one of said end faces having said rod-guiding cavity opening in said face;
• and
• oil channel means in the other of said end faces communicating with said semicylindrical groove for receiving oil carried through said semicylindrical groove on said elongated member when said member is moved through said semicylindrical groove in the direction of said oil channel means.