Patents Assigned to Helen L. Kurtz
  • Lubricant restricting device
    Patent number: 4892000
    Abstract: A device for restricting the flow of lubricant from a locomotive traction motor gear case and along an armature drive shaft of the traction motor and into the drive shaft's bearing mounting assembly, portions of which extend into the gear case. The device may also restrict lubricant flow into a return drain port of the drive shaft's bearing mounting assembly as a result of gear generated splash within the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignees: Carol A. MacKay, Helen L. Kurtz
    Inventors: Richard J. Renk, George E. Boller, Richard M. Ebert
  • Gear case
    Patent number: 4470324
    Abstract: A lubricant retaining device for use with a gear case having a pair of matable sections with a shaft receiving opening therein. The lubricant retaining device extends inwardly to the interior of said case to reduce lubricant flow through the shaft receiving opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignees: Carol A. Mackay, Helen L. Kurtz
    Inventors: Richard J. Renk, George E. Boller