Bearings – Rotary bearing – Plain bearing
Patent
1984-06-06
1985-02-26
Footland, Lenard A.
Bearings
Rotary bearing
Plain bearing
384305, 384306, 384307, F16C 1706
Patent
active
045015058
ABSTRACT:
A thrust bearing for use with a shaft having a collar mounted thereon, comprising a base ring, a thrust bearing shoe having a leading edge connected to a trailing edge by an inner diameter edge and an outer diameter edge and having a working face with a bearing liner on its surface, a series of shoes positioned on the base ring, a shoe pivot on each shoe allowing the shoe to pivot in any direction, an oil distribution groove formed in the working face near the leading edge of the shoe and extending radially for substantially the entire distance between the inner and outer diameter edges of the shoe, said oil distribution groove having an inner end and an outer end connected by a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a bleed groove extending radially from the inner end of the oil distribution groove to the inner diameter edge of the shoe for supplying oil to the inner diameter area of the shoe downstream of the bleed groove which downstream inner diameter area would otherwise be starved by oil by the centrifugal inertial effects of rotating the collar.
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A. Earley John F.
A. Earley III John F.
Footland Lenard A.
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