Split bearing shell

A bearing shell split into two substantially semicylindrical half-shells jointly receivable in an annular interspace between an outer member and in inner member movable relatively to each other, said half-shells having two pairs of end faces confronting each other across a parting plane, said half-shells being positively interconnected by screwless link means extending across said parting plane in a region of at least one of said pairs of end faces, said screwless link means engaging at least one of said half-shells with sufficient play to enable limited relative displacement of said half-shells parallel and perpendicular to said parting plane upon insertion into said interspace but preventing separation of said half-shells upon removal thereof from said interspace, said half-shells having aligned peripheral grooves along outer peripheries of said half-shells communicating with respective peripheral depressions disposed laterally thereof in the region of each of said pairs of end faces, said link means comprising unitarily a strip of uniform thickness and handle-shaped outline having a body received with clearance in said grooves and having disk-shaped heads extending with clearance into and received with play in said depressions and radially retained therein by said outer members, said heads adjoining portions of said body narrower than said heads.