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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
May. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Lufkin Industries, Inc., Lufkin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Patrick Shoup, Wellsville, NY (US);
Jeffrey Lawrence, Lufkin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Lufkin Industries, LLC, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 33/10 (2006.01); F16C 17/02 (2006.01); F16C 33/02 (2006.01); F16C 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 17/028 (2013.01); F16C 33/02 (2013.01); F16C 33/107 (2013.01); F16C 33/1045 (2013.01); F16C 33/1065 (2013.01); F16C 17/02 (2013.01); F16C 17/107 (2013.01); F16C 2220/20 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49641 (2015.01);
Abstract
A five-axial groove cylindrical journal bearing assembly with pressure dams designed for bi-directional rotation for rotatably supporting a rotating body provided with a babbitted inner surface. The journal bearing assembly has two pressure dams that are substantially mirror images of each other along a centerline between the pressure dams and has two pressure dams each located substantially opposite the direction of two vector loads of the journal bearing assembly.