Joints and connections – With distinct fluid or article handling or directing feature – Pressure fitting
Patent
1976-05-21
1977-01-18
Kundrat, Andrew V.
Joints and connections
With distinct fluid or article handling or directing feature
Pressure fitting
403134, 403140, 277212FB, F16C 1106
Patent
active
040036669
ABSTRACT:
A ball joint assembly having a ball stud member received in a socket member. The ball of the stud member is retained in a recess in the socket member by a main bearing ring, a pair of wear rings, and a pair of load rings. A lubricating grease is supplied to the interface of the ball of the stud member with the bearing and wear rings by a plurality of circumferentially spaced grooves extending generally axially across the bearing and wear rings. The grooves in the wear rings communicate with lubricant reservoirs defined by the housing member in cooperation with a cover and a flexible seal member adjacent opposed polar regions of the ball of the stud member.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2708590 (1955-05-01), Latzen
patent: 3208290 (1965-09-01), Mathues
patent: 3362735 (1968-01-01), Maxeiner
patent: 3451701 (1969-06-01), Smith
Gaines Donald R.
Smallegan Jon M.
Trudeau William H.
Gulf & Western Manufacturing Company
Kundrat Andrew V.
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