Method of making plastic ball sleeve assembly

Details Method of making plastic ball sleeve assembly Method of making plastic ball sleeve assembly

1993-08-12

1994-09-13

Eley, Timothy V.

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Process for making bearing or component thereof

294411, 29898044, 29898056, 29898065, B21D 5310

Patent

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053456793

ABSTRACT:
A method of making a plastic ball sleeve assembly includes the steps of forming a flat plastic sleeve blank, cold forming a plurality of ball sockets in the sleeve blank, cold forming a plurality of integral living hinges in the sleeve blank, inserting respective ones of a plurality of hard metal spheres in corresponding ones of the ball sockets, cold forming the sleeve blank to define retaining means at each ball socket operative to retain the spheres in the sockets while exposing surface segments of the spheres on opposite sides of the sleeve blank, and flexing the sleeve blank at the living hinges until opposite end edges of the sleeve blank abut whereby a tubular ball sleeve assembly is achieved. In a preferred embodiment, interlocking tangs and notches are formed in edges of the sleeve blank which interlock to capture the tubular shape of the ball sleeve assembly.

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