US408680A - Shaft-support - Google Patents

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G. RIESEGK. SHAFT SUPPORT.

No. 408,680. Patented Aug. 6, 1889.

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RIES'EOK'. SHAFT SUPPORT.

No. 408,680. Patented Aug. 6, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE RIESECK, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,680, dated. August 6, 1889.

Application filed March 18, 1889. serial No. 303,808. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE RIEsECK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in journal-bearings; and it consists in a means whereby the. shaft contained in the said bearing may be adjusted, regardless of the position of the bearing, together with certain other details of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved journalbearing, shown in connection with an ordinary shaft hanger or bracket. Fig. 2 is a side central sectional elevation of the same' Fig. 3 is a detailed side view of the lugs formed on the hanger. Fig. 4 is a'plan'view of the drip-pan. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same. Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are views of a modification in which the drip-pan has been omitted. Figs. Qand 10 show my improvement,

connected with a pillow-block. Figs. 11 and 12 show another modification adapted to a pillow-block.

To put my invention into practice with an ordinary overhead hanger or bracket 1, I form on each inner side of the same two lugs or projections 7 S, the one 8 above the other 7, and between which the drip-pan 2, having semicircular hollow lugs 6, is secured. This drip-pan 2, when in position, is capable of a short rotary movement, and is prevented from being elevated vertically by the upper lugs 8. At the base of this pan 2 and in? tegral therewith is an upwardly-extending boss 3, which supports the shaft-bearing 5.

The said bearing 5 is provided with a short stem 4, which enters the boss 3, and is con fined therein by a set-screw 9.

In operation the bracket or hanger 1 is secured iii-position without any accurate adjustment, except in the direction of the length of the shaft 10. The drip-pan 2 is placed in position by first entering one end of the hollow lugs 6 between the projections 7 3 and the short stem 4, secured in the boss 3. By this construction it will be seen that the shaft 10 may be adjusted either in a horizontal or vertical direction. The short stem 4 may be raised in its socket and revolved to conform with the shaft 10, and secured in the desired position by the set-screw 9, while the shaft 10 may be adjusted vertically by elevating or lowering the stem l in its socket, and the bearing 5 adjust itself to the shaft 10 by the oscillation of the drip-pan.

At Figs. 6, 7, and S on the drawings I have shown a modification of my improvement, in which the drip-pan 2 is dispensed with and the hollow lugs 6 cast or formed on the bearing 5. This will permit the shaft 10 to adjust itself in but one direction, as the bearing may rock or move on the lugs 6.

At Figs. 9 and 10 the same construction last described is shown in connection with the frame 12 of a pillow-block. At Figs. 11 and 12 I have shown the same bearing connected to a pillow-block, as shown at Fig. l on the drawings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In combination with ashaft-support such as described, the frame having formed thereon the lugs or projections 7 S, and the drip-pan 2, provided with the hollow lugs 6, adapted to engage with the projections 7 8, whereby the said drip-pan may oscillate in its bearings, as

and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a shaft-support, the combination of the frame 1, provided with the two sets of lugs 7 8, the drip-pan 2, having formed thereon two hollow lugs 6, adapt-ed to engage with the said projections 7 8, the socket 3, and pivoted bearing 5, having stem 4, and the set screw 9, for adjusting the said bearing 5, substantially as set forth.

3. In a shaft-support such as described,the drip-pan 2, detachably pivoted to the framel, provided with the socket 3, formed integral therewith, the bearing 5, having stem 4, pivoted in the said socket 3, and a set-screw 9, for

adjusting the bearing 5, whereby the said In testimony that I claim the foregoing I bearing51naybe adjusted vertically and horihereunto affix my signature this 15th day of zontally. March, A. D. 1889.

4. In a shaft-support, the frame having 5 formed integral therewith the projections7 8, GEORGE RIESECK. [L. s.]

and the bearing provided with two semicircular lugs 6, adapted to engage with the pro- In presence of j ections 7 S 011 the frame to confine the bear- CHAS. RIESECK, ing in position and permit the same to ad- GEORG SOEHER.

10 just itself to the shaft 10.

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