US Patent Issued to Encore Wire on June 3 for "System, method and apparatus for spray-on application of a wire pulling lubricant" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,936, issued on June 3, was assigned to Encore Wire Corp. (McKinney, Texas).

"System, method and apparatus for spray-on application of a wire pulling lubricant" was invented by Mark D. Bennett (Dodd City, Texas), William T. Bigbee Jr. (Hawkins, Texas) and Ramon V. Hernandez (Howe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus lubricating a wire or cable during manufacturing, wherein the wire is aligned with an entry to a spraying enclosure and passes through a first seal of the spraying enclosure. Lubricant is sprayed onto the wire inside of the spraying enclosure while the unapplied, but sprayed, lubricant is co...