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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Harrison R Picard, Granby, CT (US);
Claude P Rotondo, Middletown, CT (US);
Harold K Shaffer, Tolland, CT (US);
Bertrand H Brown, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3082 / ; 308216 ;
Abstract
A ring fabricated from metal whose modulus of elasticity is higher than and its coefficient of expansion is lower than the outer race of a roller bearing that supports concentrically mounted shafts of a turbine power plant serves to restrain growth owing to the different thermal and centrifugal forces imposed by each of said shafts otherwise causing the roller of the bearing to loosen.