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1. A bearing housing employed to automatically lubricate a retained bearing assembly, said bearing housing comprising:
a bearing lubricating housing body having an elongated tubular structure comprising an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein said bearing lubricating housing body inner surface comprises a bearing assembly radial seating surface that is sized and shaped to receive and radially retain a bearing assembly, at least one sliding surface provided on said elongated tubular structure outer surface, wherein said at least one sliding surface is sized, shaped, and fabricated of a material suitable to slideably engage with an interior surface of a guiding tube along an axial direction; at least one lubrication collection groove formed on said elongated tubular structure outer surface, wherein said lubrication collection groove is arranged in at least one of:
an axial direction,a spiraling direction, spiraling about at least a portion of an axial length of said elongated tubular structure outer surface,a multi-directional pattern having grooves formed in both axial and circumferential directions, anda multi-directional pattern having grooves formed in a first angled direction and a second, generally perpendicular angled direction; and a radial conduit extending between a respective lubrication collection groove of said at least one lubrication collection groove and at least one of said elongated tubular structure inner surface and an axial lubrication passageway, wherein said axial lubrication passageway extends axially through said elongated tubular structure. |
