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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2019
Elkhart Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc., Elkhart, IN (US);
Eric N. Combs, Goshen, IN (US);
Donald E. Sjolin, Granter, IN (US);
Frederic Einstein, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Kevin McGuire, New Paris, IN (US);
Lee R. Jones, Wakarusa, IN (US);
John E. McLoughlin, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Neocles G. Athanasiades, Setauket, NY (US);
Kiam Meng Toh, Saint James, NY (US);
Kyle A. Stoops, Elkhart, IN (US);
Elkhart Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc., Elkhart, IN (US);
Abstract
A firefighting monitor that has a first section, a second section joined to the first section by a first pivot connection, and a plurality of ball bearings positioned in the first pivot connection between a pair of bearing seats. Wherein, the bearing seats define an arc of contact with each of the plurality of ball bearings, the center of the arc of contact defining a tangent angled with respect to a flow axis defined by the first pivot connection.