Linear motion ball bearings

US4311348A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Armin Olschewski · Schweinfurt, DE
• Manfred Brandenstein · Aschfeld, DE
• Lothar Walter · Schweinfurt, DE
• Horst M. Ernst · Eltingshausen, DE
• Friedrich Schido · Heusweiler, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 5, 1979
• Grant date: Jan 19, 1982
• Expiry date: Jul 5, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49641
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A linear motion ball bearing has an outer sleeve formed from a flat blank rolled into a circular split-sleeve, a cylindrical cage situated within the bore of the outer sleeve and defining therewith continuous ball races filled with a plurality of balls, the axial gap and bore diameter of the outer sleeve being variable to provide adjustment of the bearing.