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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter R Mugglestone, Northport, NY (US);
Alfred M Rogers, Deer Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Industries, Inc., Port Washington, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
384 43 ; 384 45 ;
Abstract
A self-contained linear bearing unit presenting a single line of bearing support therewith is comprised of a retainer having ball-loaded paths and ball-unloaded paths with turnaround paths being located in end sections of the retainer. Caps received on the end sections capture the ball bearings and a bearing plate is disposed over the balls in the ball-loaded path. The unit can be made in a linked together chain of such units and various bearing configurations can be formed from plural ones of such units arranged in a desired disposition.