Abstract: A cable is passed through a lubricant filled chamber comprising an open housing and first and second flexible, annular discs each having radial slits along its inner circumference. A third flexible annular disc adjacent to said second disc includes radial slits on its inner circumference rotatably displaced from said second disc slits. The inner circumferences of the discs deformably engage the cable whereby lubricant beads are deposited at the second disc, which beads are uniformly spread by the deformably engaged sections of the third disc.

Abstract: A method for applying lubricant to the surface of a cable in which the cable is inserted into a lubricant filled chamber through the deformably engaged aperture of a first flexible disc. Beads of lubricant from the chamber are applied to the cable surface through a plurality of radial slits cut through a second flexible disc as the cable exits from the chamber. The exited cable passes through the deformable aperture of a third disc having radial slits cut therethrough in rotatably displaced relationship to the radial slits of the second disc to uniformly spread the lubricant beads on the cable surface.