Bearings – Rotary bearing – Antifriction bearing
Patent
1999-04-05
2000-08-15
Bucci, David A.
Bearings
Rotary bearing
Antifriction bearing
384470, 384607, F16C 1930, F16C 1900
Patent
active
061025801
ABSTRACT:
A roller cage for an axial-thrust bearing in a rotating machine has a substantially flat annular body with a first face, a second face, a radially inner surface, a radially outer surface, and a plurality of radially-arrayed substantially rectangular roller pockets with axially oriented sidewalls and endwalls. The cage also has features which provide enhanced flow of lubricant, present within the rotating machine, through the radially arrayed roller pockets during operation of the rotating machine. Rollers are retained within the pockets by a single projection on the sidewall of each pocket at the first face and another single projection on the other sidewall at the second face. Cage design in conjunction with inner and outer race design assures direction of lubricant flow to locations with greatest lubrication and cooling requirements. Because of its simple straight-surface design the cage of the invention is relatively simple to fabricate from polymers by polymer molding processes or from metals by fine flow blanking or ribbon forming and coining techniques.
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Alling Richard L.
Perkins Curtis H.
Podhajecki Stephen T.
Bucci David A.
Hansen Colby
Palermo Robert F.
The Torrington Company
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