Joints and connections – Interfitted members – Longitudinally splined or fluted rod
Patent
1978-07-17
1979-08-21
Shedd, Wayne L.
Joints and connections
Interfitted members
Longitudinally splined or fluted rod
308 6C, B25G 328, F16B 300, F16B 700
Patent
active
041651952
ABSTRACT:
A unit composed of a ball spline and a shaft having a polygonal cross section, the ball spline including an outer sleeve formed in its inner peripheral surface with ball-circulating grooves in vertically or horizontally symmetrical disposition, two separated holders each having an angle slightly larger than an angle .alpha. when assembled in the outer sleeve and holding a desired number of balls, the holders assembled in the outer sleeve with being inflected inwardly, and a pair of holder retainers fitted to the opposite opening ends of the outer sleeve; and the shaft formed with four ball-circulating grooves in the opposite sides of its opposite two sides and inserted in the ball spline.
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patent: 3436132 (1969-04-01), Wiesler
patent: 3800558 (1974-04-01), Buthe et al.
patent: 3897982 (1975-08-01), Teramachi
Oujevolk George B.
Shedd Wayne L.
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