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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Black O'Rourke, Uxbridge, EN;
Peter Gordon Stopp, Hillingdon, EN;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
308160 ;
Abstract
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.