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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1981
Heinrich Hofmann, Schweinfurt, DE;
Gunter Markfelder, Schweinfurt, DE;
Manfred Troster, Bad Kissingen, DE;
Fag Kugelfischer Georg Schafer & Co., Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
A journal bearing for two relatively rotatable members is formed from two coaxial rings, one of them being axially divided into two mutually symmetrical halves with respective annular track surfaces each bounded only by an external shoulder while the other ring has two annular track surfaces separated by a pair of internal shoulders. Two sets of rotary bodies (balls or rollers) are confined by these shoulders between respective inner and outer track surfaces and are held spaced apart by a common annular cage with annular lips or groups of teeth snap-fitted into a pair of closely juxtaposed annular grooves near the shoulderless internal edges of the two ring halves whereby the entire assembly is held together when detached from the relatively rotatable members.