Rolling bearing

A rolling bearing capable of use as an axial bearing or as a radial bearing, said rolling bearing comprising:

• at least one casing ring receivable in a groove of a part adapted to accommodate said rolling bearing, braced radially and axially against walls of said groove, formed from an elongated strip having opposite ends juxtaposed and in substantially abutting relationship with one another at a junction, and provided with at least one substantially annular recess forming a bed;
• means received in said casing ring forming a substantially annular race;
• a plurality of rolling elements distributed around said casing ring and riding on said race ring;
• and
• a spring ring formed from a bent resilient wire retained in said bed and having opposite ends juxtaposed and in substantially abutting relationship with one another at a junction angularly offset about an axis of said rolling bearing from the junction of the ends of said strip and in such force-transmitting relationship with said strip that said strip and said wire exert tangentially effective forces upon one another retaining said strip and said wire in a closed annular form.