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US 10,520,038 B2Granted
Method of manipulating a bearing cap
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsXavier Demeulenaere, Graham Slaughter, Mark Michel
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Abstract
A method of manipulating a bearing cap for a machine, the method comprising: attaching an intermediate member to the bearing cap, the intermediate member having one or more handling formations; and using the handling formations of the intermediate member to manipulate the bearing cap.
Claims8
A method of manipulating a bearing cap for a machine, the method comprising:
- attaching a bearing clip to the bearing cap, where the bearing cap is configured to retain a bearing within an opening of the bearing cap, where the bearing clip has a handling formation extending away from a central axis of a through hole and a body portion of the bearing clip in opposing directions, where the bearing clip includes a third projection extending down an axial end face of the bearing cap, and where the bearing clip includes the through hole extending through the body portion;
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- using the handling formation of the bearing clip to manipulate the bearing cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.