Anton Jamnik – device for circulating lubrication

Creativity, like innovation, is an important driver of
economic and social development. For this reason,
Slovenia’s Intellectual Property Office combines its
core mission of protecting intellectual property rights
with efforts to preserve and disseminate knowledge of
Slovenia’s technical heritage. It has therefore decided
to highlight the achievements of a number of Slovene
inventors who obtained patents for their inventions
and left a profound mark on Slovene science, helping
to create Slovenia’s technical heritage with inventions
that are known around the world.
ANTON JAMNIK (1862–1942) was an inventor, creator,
carver, drawer, artisan, photographer, watchmaker, musician
and versatile master craftsman. All of this defines this
persevering improver and creator of a wide variety of items:
a wooden camera, microscope, drilling machine, grinder for
making a clock mechanism, photographic equipment and
musical instruments (whistles, violins, harmoniums, harps).
He made a device for making noodles, an apple peeler and
a collapsible lamp. For clockmakers he produced a device
for cutting the round glass covers and their polishing,
setting the tension on a watch spring and for measuring.
Still preserved is a little chain carved from a single piece of
wood, and a brain teaser game he thought up himself. He
repaired church clocks in bell towers and was a whistle and
recorder teacher.
He himself played the harmonium, harp, violin, hammered
dulcimer and penny whistle. He pursued drawing and
photography, which to the present day have stood as an
important historical and ethnological document of his
age. Many of his ideas have been preserved in sketches.
Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Patent: device for circulating lubrication (1933)