Finger lever or rocker arm for a valve actuating mechanism of an internal combustion piston engine
AssigneeINA Walzlager Schaeffler KG
InventorsDieter Schmidt, Arndt Ihlemann
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Abstract
A finger lever or a rocker arm (4,25,39) for a valve actuating mechanism (1) of an internal combustion piston engine comprising a roller (5) which rolls against the periphery of a cam (3) and is rotatably mounted on a pin (17) guided in side walls (18,19) of the finger lever or the rocker arm (4,25,39) which is provided with a bore (23) directed towards the periphery of the roller (5) and communicating with a lubricant duct (38), characterized in that the bore (23,27,43) has a diameter of .ltoreq.0.5 mm in the region of its smallest cross-section.
Claims6
A finger lever or a rocker arm (4,25,39) for a valve actuating mechanism (1) of an internal combustion piston engine comprising a roller (5) which rolls against the periphery of a cam (3) and is rotatably mounted on a pin (17) guided in side walls (18,19) of the finger lever or the rocker arm (4,25,39) which is provided with a bore (23) directed towards the periphery of the roller (5) and communicating with a lubricant duct (38), characterized in that the bore (23,27,43) has a diameter of at least one of equal and less than one half of a millimeter in the region of its smallest cross-section and extends essentially tangentially with respect to the periphery of the roller (5, 44).
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