ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,632, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bill Spitzer & Associates (Houston).
"Reciprocating pump packing lubricator" was invented by Robert R Dolan (Kingwood, Texas), Steven Logan (Fulshear, Texas) and Connor Spitzer (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricator package for intermittently delivering a lubricant to lubrication points on packing on a high-pressure reciprocating pump, a frac pump is described. A preferred package includes a large (e.g., 10 gallon) capacity reservoir; a three or five outlet pump; a common manifold receiving oil from the large capacity reservoir and supplying oil or grease to the pumps; a mounting st...