US Patent Issued to Roller Bearing Company of America on May 13 for "Self lubricating linear guide bushings for reciprocating canning and bottling machinery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,864, issued on May 13, was assigned to Roller Bearing Co. of America Inc. (Oxford, Conn.).

"Self lubricating linear guide bushings for reciprocating canning and bottling machinery" was invented by Jarrod McGuire (Murrieta, Calif.), Ryan Meeks (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Brad Haywood (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Yishen Gu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear guide mechanism includes a housing having an inside housing surface that defines a bore extending through the housing coaxial with a longitudinal axis. A shaft is disposed at least partially in the bore and is reciprocatably and linearly moveable in the bore along the...