Ball and socket bearing assembly for a rudder post

Details Ball and socket bearing assembly for a rudder post Ball and socket bearing assembly for a rudder post

1993-05-07

1994-09-13

Hannon, Thomas R.

Bearings

Rotary bearing

Plain bearing

114169, 384206, F16C 2304, B63H 2506

Patent

active

053463153

ABSTRACT:
A ball and socket assembly adapted to engage the post of a rudder installed in the stern of a boat and to maintain it at a proper upright position regardless of the degree to which the post deviates from the vertical and is subjected to hydrodynamic forces which seek to displace the post. The assembly consists of a journal box fixedly mounted on a support and having a spheroidal cavity, and a bearing through which the rudder post extends. The bearing is constituted by a spheroidal section that nests within the cavity of the box and a cylindrical section projecting from the box and pinned to the post whereby the bearing is in alignment with the post and its spheroidal section is caused to rotate within the cavity in accordance with the rotation of the post as the boat is steered.

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