Appeal No. 1998-0331
Application No. 08/297,257
carrier and an interior manifold for routing pressurized fluid
to preload the plurality of spindle bearings that support the
bar holding spindles;
e) said spindle drive shaft extending through the
spindle carrier throughbore and having the drive gear attached
to an end of the drive shaft to intermesh with each of the
spindle gears and thereby rotate the spindles, the drive shaft
including a generally cylindrical hollow cavity co-axially
extending through the length of the drive shaft, a fluid
coupling at an end of the spindle drive shaft removed from the
drive gear for injecting pressurized fluid into the hollow
cavity and a fluid coupling means at the drive gear end of the
drive shaft for routing fluid from the drive shaft hollow
cavity to the spindle carrier interior manifold.
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