SEAL APPARATUS OF NEEDLE ROD GUIDE IN SEWING MACHINE

摘要

A needle bar bushing having a lubricant seal for reducing excess lubricant on the needle bar of a sewing machine. The lubricant seal includes a plurality of vertically aligned scraping portions including at least two similarily disposed conical scraping edges situated over a portion of the length of the needle bar bushing. The conical scraping edges being arranged in surrounding engagement with the needle bar for stripping and leading excess lubricant from the peripheral surface of the needle bar thus reducing the danger of lubricant working its way through the bushing and being thrown onto the work being sewn as a result of needle bar reciprocation.