Trelleborg Boots France

Jean-Luc Bouhour

Frédéric Maitay

Jacques Houis

Bernard Marhic

Sebastien Daheron

Sébastien Daheron

Régis Paris

Wilfried Gauguet

A dust boot () for an articulated transmission joint has a tulip () presenting an open end () and an opposite end designed to be secured to a first shaft (), a second shaft (), and rolling bearing means () mounted on an end () of the second shaft (). The bearing means () has rolling elements () housed in a cage (). The dust boot () includes a groove () suitable for receiving at least some of the rolling elements during an inclined movement of the second shaft () towards an outlet of the tulip, and a shoulder () separated from the groove () by a peripheral wall () that co-operates with the shoulder () to define a housing suitable for receiving a portion of the cage () of the bearing means () when the cage () is in abutment against the shoulder ().

Dust boot for transmission joint and corresponding transmission assembly

A boot for protecting the male and female elements of a transmission joint, one element is formed by a transmission shaft having radial arms for carrying rollers, the other is formed by a bell housing suitable for at least partially receiving the rollers suitable to be inserted into the bell housing's open end, the boot, has an elongate hollow body enabling the shaft to pass there through, with a 'first' one of its ends suitable for being secured to the shaft, and its 'second' end suitable for being positioned in overlapping and interfitting manner over the bell housing's open end. This boot has an internal peripheral shoulder, whose surface that faces towards the second end of the boot is provided with at least two recesses which open towards the second end, the inside of each recess forming a seat having a concave bearing surface for receiving a roller in thrusting contact.

Boot protecting the male and female elements of a transmission joint and transmission joint equipped with such a protective boot

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