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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228595 | Anti-rattle door assembly An anti-rattle door assembly includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a first base plate and a roller disposed on the first base plate. The second member is configured to receive the roller of the first member. The second member include... | 06/12/2007 |
| 5743658 | Lubricated journal bearing Radial friction bearing (1), in particular for electric motors (engines), comprising a bearing housing (2), at least one fixed lubrication ring (4) which is secured on a shaft (6) coaxially with it, and at least one bearing shell (8) disposed within the b... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5733048 | Bearing system including lubricant circulation apparatus A bearing system includes a lubricant circulation apparatus to provide a continuous supply of lubricant fluid to a bearing device. The bearing device may be a hydrodynamic sleeve bearing having a bearing housing defining a sump for maintaining lubricant f... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5669717 | Center flange bearing suitable for use with electrical machinery A hydrodynamic sleeve bearing for supporting the shaft of a relatively large electromechanical machine. The bearing includes a base element and a cap element matable about the shaft to produce the bearing housing. The bearing housing when assembled includ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5205384 | Powder-lubricated damper with wavy damper pads The damper arrangement is operated in high temperature applications, such as load and speed environments such as found in turboengines. The damper arrangement includes damper pads which are laterally urged against damping elements forming a shearing zone ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5199797 | Oil ring and oil-ring guide system for sleeve bearings An oil ring guide system comprises a shaft mounted for rotation in either of two directions. Bearings support the shaft at two spaced-apart locations. Each bearing is formed with a pair of slots. A reservoir is mounted below each bearing. An oil ring is r... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4765760 | Bearing assembly An improved modular bearing assembly capable of operation for radial and thrust loads under starved and flooded lubricant conditions with low power losses. A journal bearing alone may be employed or journal and thrust bearings. Thrust bearings per se are ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4674894 | Bearing lubrication device A bearing lubrication device for use in ring-oiled journal bearings and the like in which a generally circular ring member is eccentrically disposed around the rotatable shaft in the bearing assembly. The ring has an outer surface, right and left sides ex... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4619535 | Bearing housing A pillow block housing having partition means dividing the interior of the housing into an outer oil reservoir chamber and an inner chamber for a rolling bearing, said chambers being separated by partition means extending in a generally radial direction w... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4597679 | Apparatus for lubricating a bearing assembly A shaft is rotatably journalled in a bearing assembly. The shaft has a sleeve fixed thereon at a location axially adjacent to the bearing assembly, and a ring depends from the sleeve into a supply of liquid lubricant contained in an underlying sump. Rotat... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4597676 | Hybrid bearing A hybrid bearing for a horizontal rotatable shaft includes an upper portion which is essentially a half section of a fixed arc journal bearing. The lower portion of the bearing is essentially the lower portion of a tilting pad bearing. Appropriate modific... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4541737 | Scoop for picking up lubricant A scoop for picking up lubricant from the inner cylindrical surface of a peripheral ring of a disc or a shaft dipping into a sump of lubricant in which a deflector (32) is rockable between two positions. In the position illustrated in FIG. 1, the tip (37)... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4533264 | Housing for roller bearings with lubricating means A housing (1, 2) for roller bearings (10) with lubrication means in the form of a lubricator ring (13) which partially runs into an oil storage space (17) arranged underneath the shaft (6) and rests on the shaft (6) or the like which drives the lubricator... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4531845 | Bearing lubrication device A bearing lubrication device for use in ring-oiled journal bearings and the like in which a generally circular ring member is disposed around the rotatable shaft in the bearing assembly and has a circumferential groove in its inner surface. A cantilevered... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4033646 | Roller bearing with rotatable guide cage A journal bearing with two rows of symmetrically inclined rollers on opposite sides of a midplane includes a split cage whose two halves, meeting at that midplane, form crenelations engaging the rollers. The cage is guided along the inner surface of the o... | 07/05/1977 |
