Running wheel block

US5943960A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Eberhard Becker · Hagen, DE
• Udo Gersemsky · Herdecke, DE
• Winfried Gievers · Wetter, DE
• Klaus-Peter Hoffmann · Schwerte, DE
• Karl Liebig · Wetter, DE
• Bernd Neupert · Wetter, DE
• Hans-Hermann Osthoff · Wetter, DE
• Thomas Schweflinghaus · Wuppertal, DE
• Roland Staggl · Wetter, DE
• Karl Zacharias · Schwerte, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 31, 1999
• Expiry date: Apr 20, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66C9/08
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A running wheel block, including a housing having at least one connecting surface for connection to a supporting framework, and further having two opposing, detachable side walls, two inwardly directed rotary bearing holding hubs, arranged in the housing, rotary bearings mounted in the hubs, and a running wheel mounted in the rotary bearings so that a section of its running surface projects from the housing toward at least one side. Each of the holding hubs is arranged on one of the two opposing side walls of the housing. The housing further includes at least one spacing holder arranged between the opposing side walls. The spacing holder forms a connecting surface. The detachable side wall has centering members that, when the side wall is attached to the housing, determine the position of the holding hubs relative to the running wheel axis.