US981055A - Bearing. - Google Patents

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W.'J. BREWER.

I 4 BEARING.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10. 1910.

981,055, Patented Jan. 1.0, 1911.

fifilliam Brewer.

UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE! WILLIAM J. BREWER, or 'Tnofsr, NE YORK.

BEARING.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VILLIAM J. BREWER, a subject of the King of England, residing at Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bearings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to shaft bearingsof the type set forthin my allowed application Serial No. 505,539, filed July 2,1909, and the principal object of the same is to cheapen the cost of production of the bearing and to simplify the bearing casing shown in said application so that the bearing may be more readily applied to a box, sleeve or the like of a shaft.

In carrying out the objects of the invention generally stated above, it will be understood, of course, that the essential features thereof are necessarily susceptible of changes in details and structural arrangements, certain simple and practical embodiments of which are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a View in transverse section of the improved bearing. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one section of the improved casing. Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation, partly in section, of a modified retainer ring for holding the sections of the casing assembled. Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation thereof. Fig. 6 is a detail view in elevation of one of the cover plates for the sides of the casing sections.

Referring to said drawings by numerals, 1-2 designate the two sections of the bearing casing, said sections being duplicates and forming a cylindrical casing when assembled. The sections are formed of suitable metal pressed or stamped or cast to provide a central circumferential groove 3 and a corresponding internal ledge 4, in a manner similar to that set forth in my application mentioned in the foregoing. The ledge 4E provides two channels in the casing for the rollers 5 which are mounted on the axles 6, the axles being journaled in the bosses 7 of the spacer rings 8. Said bosses project outwardly from their rings and provide means for preventing the axles working loose in the casing. Said bosses are preferably integral with the rings and may be Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 10, 1910.

Patented Jan.

Serial No. 548,386.

formed by a single operation of a suitable stamping machine, or may becast.

The sections l2 are open at their ends and 'are' each provided with inwardly-projecting flanges-'9 at their edges. The free edges of said flanges are preferably'beveled and are adapted for engagement withthe peripheral groove 10 that is formed in the thickened periphery ll of the sectional end cover plates 12. Said plates 12 are complementally recessed at their meeting edges, as indicated at 13 to form an opening-for the shaft 14: to which the improved bearing is applied.

Sections 12 are detachably held in assembled position by means of a ring that is formed of two sections I516I" Said ring sections conform to the contourof the grooves 3 of the casing sections '1 2 and are fitted in said grooves. The ringsectionshavetheir ends provided with outstanding laterallyprojectin'g lugs 17 throughwhi-ch bolt openings 18 are formed forthe'reception of the locking bolts 19 which detachably fasten the end lugs of the ring sections together. "Said bolts are threaded, and the'openings formed through the lugs of one ring section are also threaded to permit the pressure of the ring sections to be regulated by adjusting said bolts.

Asis suggested in Figs. 4: and 5, the 111 s 20 of the ring sections 1516 are slightly spaced from the ends of their sections, which arrangement provides a pocket 21 between the adjacent lugs when the ring sections are in their casing sections retainlng position. A wear block 22 is seated in each pocket, the fastening bolts obviously passing through said blocks.

It will be clear from the foregoing that the improved bearing may be readily taken apart, or bodily moved on shaft 14; when necessary or desirable, and also that the employment of the cover plates for the ends of the casing provides an absolutely dust-proof bearing and one from which the lubricating material cannot escape.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. A bearing comprising complemental casing sections, sectional detachable means surrounding said sections for holding the same assembled, anti-friction means inclosed by said sections, and means for sealing the ends of said sections.

2. A bearing comprising complemental casing sections, a sectional retaining ring adapted to surround said sections to hold the same in cylindrical form, anti-friction 7 sections, means for assembling said sections,

1 sectional cover plates having an interlocking engagement with the ends of said sections, and anti-friction means inclosed by said sections.

5. A bearing comprising a pair of complemental casing sections each provided with a circumferential groove, a sectional retainer ring engaging the grooves of said sections, means for fastening the ends of the said sectional ring together, and anti-friction means inclosed by said casing sections.

6. A bearing comprising a pair of easing sections, each provided with a circumferential groove, a retainer ring section for each groove, said ring sections provided with end lugs, means for detachably fastening the lugs of the ring sections together, and anti-friction means inclosed by said casing sections.

7 vA bearing comprising a pair of'complemental open-end casing sections, said sections having their end portions provided with an inwardly projecting flange, a sectional closure plate for the end of each section provided with a peripheral groove for the reception of said flanges, means for assembling said sections in cylindrical form, and antifriction means inclosed by said sections.

8. A hearing comprising a sectional casing, spacer rings within said casing and disposed at opposite portions thereof, said rings provided with journal bosses, axles having their ends mounted in said bosses, and anti-friction rollers carried by said axles.

9. A bearing comprising a pair of casing sections each provided with a circumferential groove, a retainer ring section for each groove, said ring sections provided with end lugs, said lugs being complementally recessed, a block adapted to be fitted between the recessed lugs of said ring sections, and means for fastening the recessed lugs of one ring section to the lugs of the other ring section.

10. A bearing comprising a pair of casin sections, a retainer ring for holding said sections assembled, said ring being 111 two sections, and having a recessed lug at the ends thereof, bolts for detachably fastening the lugs of the ring sections, and wear blocks closing the pockets formed by the recesses of said lugs.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VILLIAM J. BREWER.

Witnesses Mrs. JOSEPH PoDMoRE, Bnssm M. TOLHURST.

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