Guide sleeve, guide post and improved ball bearing assembly

Details Guide sleeve, guide post and improved ball bearing assembly Guide sleeve, guide post and improved ball bearing assembly

1992-08-18

1994-03-01

Footland, Lenard A.

Bearings

Linear bearing

Ball bearing

384 30, 384906, F16C 2904

Patent

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RE0345555

ABSTRACT:
In combination, a guide post having a longitudinal slot and a ball bearing cage adjustably receiving the post and adapted for relative longitudinal and rotary movements, there being an internal annular open top recess in the cage inwardly of one end. A truncated roller bearing with opposed hemispherical surfaces and opposed flat sides in guidably positioned within the slot with the roller bearing maintaining a rolling point contact with the bottom wall of the slot and with the roller flat sides loosely and slidably registerable with the side walls of the slot. A hemispherical surface of the roller bearing being positioned and retained within an internal annular recess within the ball cage. An end cap with a shank is threaded into the cage, with the shank terminating in an annular open bottom recess cooperatively receiving said roller bearing from trapping the roller bearing in the cage.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3434760 (1969-03-01), Wendler
patent: 3752540 (1973-08-01), Bosworth
patent: 4648727 (1987-03-01), O'Neil et al.
patent: 4664534 (1987-05-01), Hanaway
patent: 5054937 (1991-10-01), Hanaway

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