Ball bearing for longitudinal movements

US3951473A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SKF Industrial Trading & Development Company, B.V. · NL

Inventors

• Armin Olschewski · Schweinfurt, DE
• Erich Burkl
• Lothar Walter · Schweinfurt, DE
• Manfred Brandenstein · Aschfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 1975
• Grant date: Apr 20, 1976
• Expiry date: May 20, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C29/069
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A linear ball bearing with a sleeve housing having radially-extending apertures and adjacent thereto axial load-bearing tracks, and in each aperture a removable insert which includes therein a return groove for non-load-bearing balls, said tracks and grooves forming continuous rows of balls.