Patents Represented by Attorney Robert E. Kline
  • Patent number: 3932059
    Abstract: A fully articulated helicopter rotor having an elastomeric type main bearing which is reactive of all blade motions about the intersecting blade pitch change, lead-lag, and coning axes, including blade droop supporting and limiting members for static and dynamic operating conditions wherein coupling influences between the separate blade motions are precluded. In reacting these blade weight loadings and dynamic thrust forces, the droop members specifically provide full area contact bearing surfaces to distribute the large forces from the blades into the rotor hub proper while avoiding scuffing or rolling contact between the parts, and the high bearing stresses which would result from either point or line contact only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1976
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Robert C. Rybicki