Method of manufacturing bearing material
AssigneeThe Glacier Metal Company Limited
InventorsGeorge Christopher Pratt, Barry John Eastwood, Anthony Dennis Michael, Leonard Heath
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Abstract
This invention is the production of a plain bearing having an aluminum interlayer and a metal overlay on the interlayer. The overlayer is for example cast on the interlayer so that it can constitute substantially the final bearing surface without machining after casting or roll-bonding. In order to enable the overlay to be cast on, the interlayer is abraded while below the surface of a tinning or other coating material in a material so that oxides can be removed from the aluminium surface and the coating applied to it without its becoming re-oxidised, and then the overlay can be applied to the coating.
Claims2
A method of manufacturing a plain bearing, which comprises
- bonding an aluminum or aluminum alloy interlayer to a continuous steel backing strip;
- passing the resulting composite strip below the surface of a bath of molten lead/tin alloy coating material;
- holding the composite strip under the surface of the bath of coating material until its temperature is substantially equal to that of the bath of coating material;
- removing oxide from the surface of the interlayer, during its stay in the bath, and coating the resulting cleaned surface with said coating material;
- withdrawing the coated composite strip from the bath over means retaining the strip straight across its width;
- casting a lead/tin alloy overlay onto the coated surface of the interlayer;
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- forming the coated composite strip material with its overlay into a semi-cylindrical bearing shell without removing metal in a machining operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.