Electro-mechanical actuating devices

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION OF AN ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATING DEVICE WITH A LUBRICATING APPARATUS, WHEREIN SAID ACTUATING DEVICE COMPRISES AN ELECTRIC COIL, A MAGNET CORE MOVABLE WITHIN SAID COIL COAXIALLY THEREOF, SPRING MEANS ADAPTED TO BIAS SAID CORE IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION, HEAT-SENSITIVE SWITCH MEANS INCORPORATED WITH SAID COIL AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED IN SERIES THEREWITH, AND A HOUSING SURROUNDING THE COIL-AND-CORE ASSEMBLY, WITH A LUBRICATING APPARATUS COMPRISING A LUBRICATING PRESSURE CYLINDER ACCOMMODATED IN A BORE IN SAID HOUSING AND HELD IN A PREDETERMINED POSITION THEREIN BY LOCATING MEANS, A PLUNGER MEMBER MOVABLE WITHIN SAID CYLINDER AND RIGIDLY CONNECTED TO SAID MAGNET CORE, A RESERVOIR FOR LUBRICANT CONNECTED TO SAID HOUSING TO FEED LUBRICANT INTO SAID CYLINDER THROUGH A TRANSVERSE BORE IN THE LATTER, AND BIASED VALVE MEANS FOR ADMITTING LUBRICANT INTO LUBRICATION LINE MEANS UPON THE FORWARD STROKE OF SAID PLUNGER MEMBER.