Clutch release device
AssigneeSKF Industrial Trading and Development Company, B.V.
InventorsHorst Manfred Ernst, Armin Olschewski, Rainer Schurger, Lothar Walter, Manfred Brandenstein, Erich Burkl
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Abstract
A clutch release device for use with a thrust bearing has a sliding sleeve formed as a cylinder with a flange extending radially outward, and a transition shoulder between the cylinder and flange; a radially extending reference plane extends through said shoulder, and said flange has portions thereof displaced axially, with said reference plane being equidistant from said flange and said displaced portions.
Claims14
In a clutch release device including a sliding sleeve cooperating with a thrust bearing having inner and outer rings, wherein said sleeve is formed from sheet metal and comprises a cylindrical portion with opposite first and second ends, a radially extending flange portion at said first end, said flange portion comprising at least one bearing contact section thereof axially displaced toward said second end of the sleeve and situated adjacent one of said thrust bearing rings for engaging said ring and a further radially extending section axially spaced from said bearing section for engaging a clutch lever;
- the improvement wherein said flange portion has a shoulder transition section between said cylindrical portion and said bearing contact and further sections, the radial planes of said bearing contact and further sections being displaced in opposite axial directions from said transition section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.