Method of making a camshaft for reciprocating piston engines

USRE33888E · kind E · reissue

Assignee

• The Torrington Company · US

Inventors

• Michael J. Hartnett · Woodbury, US
• Robert Lugosi · Oxford, US
• James Rollins · Winsted, US
• John P. Cook · Chattanooga, US
• Jeffrey A. Clark · Riverton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 1991
• Grant date: Apr 21, 1992
• Expiry date: Jan 31, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Axially spaced cams and bearing rings mounted on a tube are permanently secured to the tube by circumferentially spaced projections on the tube extending into grooves formed on the inside surfaces of the cams and bearing rings.