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US 4,784,499 AGranted
Bearing unit
AssigneeDaido Metal Company Ltd.
InventorOsamu Fukute
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Abstract
A bearing unit of this invention includes, instead of a conventionally used bracket, a housing formed with an external thread and a bush press fitted in an inner bore of the housing.
Claims19
A structure including a bearing unit installed within a wall of an industrial machine comprising
- a wall of an industrial machine having a generally planar portion of a first thickness and having a hole therethrough of predetermined circumference;
- an elongated housing having a length, extending into said hole, at least as great as said first thickness of said generally planar portion of said wall of the industrial machine, and extending through said generally planar portion of said first thickness of said wall while in contact with a substantially major portion of said circumference of said hole in said wall;
- said elongated housing having an inner bore, and an external thread extending along at least a portion of the length of said elongated housing;
- holding means to hold said housing and said wall stationary relative to each other;
- said holding means including
- said external thread,
- receiving means to receive said external thread,
- opposing means to oppose the force of said external thread being received in said receiving means;
- and at least one bushing press fitted within said inner bore of said elongated housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.