Abstract: A thrust bearing assembly which facilitates the installation and assembly of the thrust bearing into a housing or onto a shaft. The thrust bearing assembly preferred embodiment comprises two thrust washers, a cage with rollers, an annular band which engages the outer periphery of the thrust washer, and at least one protrusion extending radially outwardly from the annular band. The protrusions have two edges--a leading edge and a non-leading edge. The non-leading edge is configured to make it impossible to insert the thrust bearing into a housing the wrong way. A modified non-leading edge configuration makes it impossible to slide a modified thrust bearing assembly onto a shaft.

Abstract: The bearing has structure for retaining the cage and roller assembly in a single flanged roller bearing race. The structure includes a single flange race which retains a cage and roller assembly by means of a small flange on a cage end rim which cooperates with a shoulder formed on the flange of the race.

Abstract: The combined radial and thrust bearing has an annular series of rollers in the annular space between an inner race and an outer race for taking radial forces. The thrust bearing part includes a pair of axially spaced apart washers at each longitudinal end of the bearing. An annular series of balls are located in the annular space between the washers. The ball bearing retainer is dimensioned so that a very close clearance exists with the two washers in order to maintain a very small labyrinth clearance for sealing purposes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming on the outside of a permeable, rotatable drum by feeding a pulp slurry through a mat forming and pressing zone, followed by a mat washing zone. In the mat washing zone, the mat is washed with liquid from the first source and then washed with liquid from a second source.A Washing baffle has a first portion extending from its upstream end partially along the outside surface of the drum and slightly spaced from the outside surface of the drum. This first portion is followed by a second portion extending partially along the outside surface of the drum and spaced further from the outside surface of the drum than the first portion. A valve is provided for controlling the velocity of liquid through a slot into a circumferential space separating the washing baffle from the drum.

Abstract: A cage and roller assembly in a hardened thrust bearing race is restrained within the race by heating a plurality of circumferentially widely separated parts of the race lip to soften the lip parts and bending the softened parts over the cage of the cage and roller assembly. An apparatus for assembling the thrust bearing includes a pair of electrodes located to apply a current through the lip to soften the lip and a form punch which is constructed to bend the softened part of the lip over a cage and roller assembly to an acute angle with repect to the rest of the lip.

Abstract: The bearing is used in a constant velocity universal joint of the type used in front wheel drive axles for motor vehicles. The universal joint housing has arcuately spaced apart pairs of parallel flat raceways. A bearing is provided in the arcuate space between each pair of housing raceways. The bearing has a single roller which contacts one raceway at a time with a very small clearance from the other raceway. The single roller has a curved outer periphery. A cylindrical sleeve separates the single roller from a plurality of rollers which roll about a bearing support on a shaft which extends into the universal joint housing. The inner cylindrical surface of the sleeve is in contact with the plurality of rollers, each of which have a curved outer surface.

Abstract: The annular split cage is made of two semicircular parts. Each part has roller pockets containing one or more rollers. The cross-sectional area of the end rims of each semicircular part decreases from the circumferential center of the end rim to each circumferential end of the end rim.

Abstract: A rocker arm assembly for a fixed rocker shaft has an open rocker arm body containing a bearing supported radially by the rocker arm body bottom wall. The rocker arm side walls axially position the bearing.

Abstract: A permanently magnetized magnet associated with the bearing provides a magnetic field which is detected by a detector in the bearing. The relative rotation of one part of the bearing, such as a rotatable shaft or rotatable race, with respect to a second part of the bearing, such as a race, is indicated by the detector.

Abstract: An end seal is provided at each axial end of the bearing. The structure of the bearing and the structure of the end seal is such that the axial length, radial length, and bearing capacity of the new bearing is substantially the same as the standard axial length, radial width, and roller member capacity of bearings without seals.

Abstract: The universal joint cross consists of two cylindrical hardened and ground pins joined together at their longitudinal centers with their axes in a common plane. The pins are joined together by welding under pressure while controlling the length of the welds from the centers of the pins to provide bearing surfaces on the pins with an undisturbed metallurgical structure.

Abstract: The bearing assembly when pressed on a shaft will be axially located in either direction. The assembly consists of a roller bearing assembly which is pressed into an outer sleeve while entrapping an inner sleeve serving as an inner race. The inner race is pressed onto a shaft and has a turned up flange which serves as a thrust surface on both sides.

Abstract: A mesh filter bag fits over a metal support. The bag has opposed edges longitudinally extending along one side of the mesh filtering bag from the bottom of the bag to the top of the bag. A rope extends from the filtering bag bottom along one opposed edge over the top and along the other opposed edge to the bottom. The opposed edges are held in sealing engagement by a tube.

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.

Abstract: Individually produced cams and journals are fastened to a hollow tube to form a camshaft by outwordly deforming the tube with a lost mandrel which is left in the tube to form a seal.

Abstract: The bearing may be used in the housing of a constant velocity universal joint such as a front-wheel universal joint drive for motor vehicles. The bearing has a generally rectangular roller block provided with raceways around its entire periphery. Rollers fill all of the raceways. The ends of the raceways are defined by a pair of flexible end plates. The end plates yieldingly guide the roller ends.

Abstract: Pre-heated mash is pelleted. The resulting warm pellets are cooled by the ambient air and the ambient air is heated by the warm pellets. The heated ambient air is used to pre-heat the mash.

Abstract: A camshaft assembly is made by inserting a hollow tube into cams and journals in close fitting relationship. A plug is forced through the tube to a predetermined position. The cams and journals have circular shaped openings with circumferentially spaced apart axially extending grooves. The plug has circumferentially spaced apart protrusions which expand circumferentially spaced apart portions of the tube into the circumferentially spaced apart grooves in the cams and journals.

Abstract: A pulp mat is formed on the outside of a permeable, rotatable drum by feeding a pulp slurry through a mat forming and pressing zone, followed by a mat washing zone. In the mat washing zone, the mat is washed with liquid from a first source and then washed with liquid from a second source.A washing baffle has a first portion extending from its upstream end partially along the outside surface of the drum and slightly spaced from the outside surface of the drum. This first portion is followed by a second portion extending partially along the outside surface of the drum and spaced further from the outside surface of the drum than the first portion.

Abstract: A coupling member for taking up torque in a vehicle steering column to absorb vibration and vehicle body misalignment, the coupling member including a plastics disc with a pair of diametrically opposed bosses which protrude further from one face of the disc than from the other face, and another pair of diametrically opposed bosses which protrude further from the other face of the disc than from its one face.The disc is able to distort upon application of torque through the bosses by means of a cut-out portion between each adjacent boss. A fail-safe deflection plate can be provided on each face of the disc to react against opposed pairs of bosses in the event of high application of torque. An adaptor piece holding one end of a steering column is fitted to one face of the disc and a splined flange is secured to the other face of the disc to enable the coupling member to be secured to another steering column component.