Packaging of semicylindrical sleeve bearings
AssigneeFederal-Mogul Corporation
InventorAlbert L. Beauvais
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Abstract
A system for packaging a plurality of nested objects wherein adhesive strips are applied to either side of the tightly nested objects to form a rigid unitary package in which the tightly nested objects will withstand compressive stresses and the adhesive strips will withstand tensile stresses which may be applied to the structure during handling or shipping to the customer.
Claims6
A packaging arrangement comprising a plurality of uniformly shaped, partially cylindrical parts, each of said parts having a concave front wall and a convex back wall, and being arranged in a planar row in nested relationship such that the leading end portion of the front wall of each said part lightly contacts the back wall of an adjacent leading one of said parts without distorting either of said parts in contact with one another, each of said parts being of uniform height measuring from the top of said walls to the bottom of said walls throughout and being equal in height to each of said other parts, said plurality of parts as nested together forming the compressive member of a cantilever beam defined by the entire said row of parts,
- non-stretchable adhesive means disposed on and adhering to the top of said walls and to the bottom of said walls of said parts and encompassing each of said end portions forming the area of contact between said parts and forming along the top and bottom of said walls an upper and a lower tensile member, respectively, of the aforementioned cantilever beam and thereby constituting a unitary package whereby each of said nested parts is absolutely without freedom of movement relative to each other when subjected to normal shipping handling.
A packaging arrangement comprising a plurality of semicylindrical sleeve bearings tightly and symmetrically nested together in a planar row without distortion forming the compressive member of a cantilever beam and a nonstretchable adhesive means disposed on and adhering to both axial ends of each nested semicylindrical sleeve bearing forming the lateral and longitudinal tensile members of said cantilever beam, wherein
- said adhesive means comprising two paperboard strips each one of which is coated on one side with a pressure sensitive adhesive and disposed on and adhering to the opposite said axial ends of said bearings in said planar row, said paperboard strips being sized to symmetrically overlap the boundries of said planar row forming a unitary package of said cantilever beam,
- a box to enclose said unitary package the internal dimensions of said box being the same as the external dimensions of said unitary package,
- each of said sleeve bearings being of bi-metal strip wherein one layer of said bi-metal strip is a relatively soft bearing metal and the other layer of said bi-metal strip is relatively hard metal and the surface of the relatively soft bearing metal of one of said bearings is in nested contact with the surface of the relatively hard metal layer of an adjacent and contiguous other of said bearings in said planar row.
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