The Glacier Metal Company Limited

John Black O'Rourke

Nigel H New

Peter G Stopp

A lubrication system for a thrust and/or journal bearing for a shaft. The system comprises a viscosity pump mounted on the shaft within the thrust bearing housing, a main lubricant reservoir and a closed auxiliary reservoir. The pump inlet is connected to the auxiliary reservoir below the level at which the main reservoir is in communication with the auxiliary reservoir, the latter level being the desired level of lubricant in the housing. The pump outlet is arranged to supply lubricant to the bearings.

Lubrication system

This invention is a thrust bearing comprising a circumferential ring of pivotally mounted thrust pads and in order to make a much more simple bearing than the previously known kind in which each pad is supported from a thrust ring mounted within the housing, in the present invention each pad is supported on its individual thrust pillar which is itself supported against a wall of the bearing housing. There is a ring for locating the pillars circumferentially but that does not play any part in carrying axial loads or in permitting tilting of each thrust pad on its pillar.

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Uxbridge, United Kingdom

John Black O'Rourke