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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7267523 | Composite shaft A turbine shaft may be used to remove a heat load from pliant bearings without requiring the use of a process fluid for cooling the turbine shaft. The turbine shaft comprises a heat conductive sleeve disposed between an outer surface of a tie rod shaft and an inner ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7021167 | Rotary joint mechanism A rotary joint mechanism for connecting two machine parts to effect relative movement between the two machine parts includes an outer ring adapted to be connected to a rotatable machine part, and an inner ring adapted to be connected to a fixed machine part, with th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7011317 | Cart wheel with bearing components A wheel assembly for a material handling cart includes a wheel hub having first and second openings in first and second hub faces, each concentric with and extending along a central axis of the wheel hub. First and second ball bearings are located in the openings. I... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995955 | Pivot assembly for hard disk drive use An apparatus for a pivot assembly that can strongly and reliably fix a sleeve to an outer ring, and in addition, that can also solve the problem of out gas. Ball bearing 2 are mated to both ends of a shaft 1, and to the outer circumference of these bal... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6941651 | Pulley and bearing assembly and a method and apparatus for inserting and fastening a bearing within a pulley A pulley and bearing assembly and a method of inserting and fastening a bearing within a pulley having an axially extending cylindrical hub portion with an axial bore forming an inner periphery of the pulley and a pair of opposite ends, an annular belt groove portio... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6793397 | Rotation support apparatus for compressor pulley A radial ball bearing 14 of the three point contact type or four point contact type is used for the rolling bearing for a compressor pulley. The offset amount δ, that is the axial distance between the center α of the radial load applied to the follower pull... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6435725 | Sheave assemblies and pulley blocks A sheave assembly for use in a high performance pulley block has an inner race 14, a sheave 10 defining an outer race and a plurality of balls 13 arranged between the outer race of the sheave 10 and the inner race 14, so as rotatably to mount the sheave o... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6390680 | Extruded track construct component system with threaded radial bearing end pulley for swimming pool cover systems An invented track construct component system with a threaded radial bearing end pulley is described for pool cover systems that includes an extruded longitudinal cover track having a top longitudinal anchoring slot, a C-channel longitudinal slot along one... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6309109 | Bearing assembly A bearing assembly with at least one row of balls is disclosed. The bearing assembly has a shaft tube, at least one pair of bearing covers pressed onto the shaft tube, a concave surface formed in facing sides of each of the bearing covers, a row of balls ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6168316 | Bearing assembly for use with water pumps A rotary bearing assembly (10) for a motor vehicle water pump employs a spindle (11) with a central region (14) surrounded by an outer bearing ring (15). The ring (15) and spindle central region (14) have axially spaced complementary raceways (16, 17) on ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6050728 | Compound ball bearing type pulley A compound ball bearing type pulley comprises a bearing assembly including a spindle 1, a sleeve 2 surrounding the spindle 1 with outer flanges 22a, 22b formed on upper and lower ends of the sleeve and an inner ring fitted on the spindle. Balls 5, 9 are p... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5795079 | Shaft bearing in a rock and ground-drilling machine A rock or ground-drilling machine includes a gear housing (14) in which there is journalled a shaft (31) which surrounds a drill string (23) in the manner of a sleeve and which is affixed to the drill string by means of a chuck (7) connected to the shaft ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5489254 | Thrust bearing feature for side plate of bearing block A bearing block has a sheave rotatably mounted between a pair of side plates. A plurality of exposed ball bearings are mounted in the side plates for bearing engagement with the sides of the sheave. The ball bearings can circulate and are either provided ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5462368 | Ball bearing block having self-contained bearings A bearing block has a central hub with a pair of circular grooves near the sides of the hub. The grooves define an inner ball race and also define an outer ball bearing retaining lip. A ring-shaped sheave is disposed around the hub and has a pair of reces... | 10/31/1995 |
| 4925363 | Blade ring rollout roller A roller structure for a rotary machine has a plate that is removably engagable with the outer casing of such rotary machines, a shaft portion attached to the plate and insertable through the outer casing, a bearing mounted for rotation upon the shaft por... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4909640 | Ball bearing This invention is to provide a ball bearing which has a performance close to that of the conventional radial ball bearing, is simple in the formation and is low in the cost for such bearing as for fitting the disc of a disc recording and reproducing devic... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4878630 | Guide roller assembly In a guide roller assembly such as utilized for supporting a reciprocating yarn guide rod in a textile winding machine, the guide roller assembly having an outer shell rotatably supported on a carrier member by an interposed ball bearing assembly, problem... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4747810 | Belt drive with self-aligning idler A drive system preferably a belt drive in which a belt is trained about a pair of sheaves rotating on a pair of parallel axes and tensioned by an idler means intermediate the sheaves, the idler means being mounted on a carrier by means of self-aligning be... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4671130 | Drive assembly for astronomical telescope A sidereal-rate drive assembly for an astronomical telescope which includes a worm gear for rotating the telescope about its polar axis and which is engaged by a motor driven worm. The worm gear fits over the end of a polar shaft, and it and the end of th... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4602875 | Combined bearing, rotatable member and shield assembly A combined bearing, pulley and shield assembly that is temporarily unitized prior to being installed on a cylindrical shaft support. A bearing having inner and outer races with an annular space between the races is molded into the hub off the pulley with ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4571227 | Belt drive unit for transmitting drive between the drive shaft on an internal combustion engine and associated accessories A belt drive unit for transmitting drive between the drive shaft on an engine and associated accessories is described, the said unit essentially comprising a pin, designed to fit on to one end of the said shaft, and a pair of pulleys having different diam... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4493388 | Bearing assembly for a vehicle wheel driven by a rotary constant velocity universal joint A wheel bearing assembly wherein the wheel is driven through a universal joint is arranged with the outer joint member of the universal joint in positive driving engagement with the inner bearing ring of the wheel bearing which is connected to drive the w... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4486184 | Free-wheel for bicycles In a free-wheel for bicycles comprising an inner body integral with the wheel hub and an outer body carrying the chain drive sprockets, rolling on the inner body through two sets of balls, the seat for one of the sets is formed between a shoulder of the i... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4183127 | Top rollers and method for manufacture thereof Disclosed is a top roller for use in a fine or rough spinning frame wherein a plurality of rollers or balls are fitted into one of two axially spaced apart annular grooves formed in the exterior side wall of a rotary section of an arbor and retained with ... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4145093 | Ball bearing roller assembly A ball bearing roller assembly for extensible draw tracks and the like includes a plastic roller having a bore with an annular race terminating at its rear end in a resilient releasable retainer lip and at proximate its forward end in a peripheral inside ... | 03/20/1979 |
