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US 11,085,491 B1Granted
Self lubricating bearing sleeve
OwnerRobert Janianinventor
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Abstract
A bearing sleeve element comprising a thin sheet of metal like bronze or brass with “dog bone” shaped pattern cut out through metal sheet in combination with a thin sheet of Teflon compressed and trapped inside “dog bone” shaped cavities of metal sheet in order to serve as a low friction bearing between two sliding surfaces.
Claims8
A bearing sleeve arrangement element, comprising:
- a thin metallic sheet made up from a bronze or brass material, which includes of a plurality of cutout dogbone shaped cavity patterns;
- a Teflon sheet having the same surface area of metallic sheet, is pressed over a first surface of the metallic sheet such that portions of the Teflon material is inserted in the dogbone shape cavity patterns to be flushed with a second opposite surface of the sheet metallic material to form a sliding surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.