Ball joint

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1988-04-08

1989-05-23

Kundrat, Andrew V.

Joints and connections

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403 50, 277212FB, F16C 1106

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048325236

ABSTRACT:
A ball joint sealing bellows (7) made of a plastic material and having a stud-side bellows rim (8) sealingly engaging a ball stud (5) and a housing-side bellows rim (10) fixed by a clamping ring (11) in a circumferential groove (12) in a joint housing (1), the housing-side bellows rim (10) being approximately cylindrical and having an inner diameter which is somewhat greater than the outer diameter of the circumferential groove (12), the housing-side bellows rim being pressed under the preload of the clamping ring (11) which engages the outer surface of the rim, radially into the ring groove (12) and sealingly engaging the joint housing (1) to prevent the sealing bellows (7), from being pulled or pushed out of the ring groove (12), the housing-side bellows rim (10) having one circumferential thickening (15) on the axially outer side thereof which abuts one side surface of the clamping ring (11), and another circumferential thickening (17) on the axially inner side thereof which abuts the other side surface of the clamping ring (11).

REFERENCES:
patent: 3387870 (1968-06-01), Gottschald et al.
patent: 3547453 (1970-12-01), Gottschald
patent: 4549830 (1985-10-01), Mette
patent: 4572693 (1986-02-01), Nemoto
patent: 4673188 (1987-06-01), Matsuno et al.

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