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US 4,229,057 AGranted
Bearings
AssigneeVandervell Products Limited
InventorRonald N. Howse
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Abstract
A bearing, particularly a railway bearing, is described wherein a thrust disc at one end of the axle is located between axially opposed thrust faces in the bearing housing. One of the thrust faces is provided by a number of arcuate elements assembled into a circumferential groove at that end of the housing outboard of the thrust disc, the arcuate elements being located and retained in position by a spacer ring.
Claims4
A bearing for an axle, the bearing comprising a housing;
- a bearing liner to engage the axle in the housing;
- a radially extending circumferential thrust face on the housing adjacent one end thereof, said face facing in one direction;
- an internal groove in the housing between said face and said end;
- a thrust ring located in said groove and having a radially extending circumferential thrust face opposite to, and facing in the opposite direction to, said first mentioned thrust face, said ring comprising a plurality of arcuate elements assembled into said groove and which are located axially thereby;
- and a spacer ring located within said thrust ring to hold the elements thereof in said groove.
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A bearing and axle assembly, the bearing comprising a bearing for an axle, the bearing comprising a housing;
- a bearing liner to engage the axle in the housing;
- a radially extending circumferential thrust face on the housing adjacent one end thereof, said face facing in one direction;
- an internal groove in the housing between said face and said end;
- a thrust ring located in the groove and having radially extending circumferential thrust face opposite to, and facing in the opposite direction to, said first mentioned thrust face, said ring comprising a plurality of arcuate elements assembled into said groove and which are located axially thereby;
- a spacer ring located within said thrust ring to hold the elements thereof in said groove;
- and a thrust disc secured to the end of the axle and located between the thrust faces on the housing and the thrust ring.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.