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maybe read what is in the link I posted above?

The patent 1697217 for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929, (01011929) and the assignee was the Alemite Manufacturing Corporation[1] (thus the eponymous names for the fittings). Alemite had already been marketing, since 1919,[2] ball check valves to accept grease...