Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coupling clamp formed by shaping a sheet-metal blank or tube length and having an axially slotted hollow body (14) forming a socket for a shaft or other transmission member and having a lug (17) depending from either side of the slot (15), the lugs being pierced (18) for the passage of a bolt or the like by which the clamp can be tightened to bear radially onto a shaft, at least one of the lugs having at least one internal tab (13) extending at least part-way across the slot and shaped to bear radially onto a shaft on tightening the clamp.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a universal joint yoke 1 having a rotational axis Y--Y and an opposed pair of arms 3 with bores 9 having a common axis X--X; the sectional shape of the arms in that plane perpendicular to the rotational axis Y--Y and passing through the common bore axis X--X having end portions 10 inturned towards the rotational axis Y--Y so that a greater depth h of bore may be obtained than the bore depth h' of a yoke of equivalent radial size formed from the same thickness material e and having arms 16 wherein the corresponding section is part circular.

Abstract: The combined thrust and radial bearing is combined with a structure which defines two axially extending support surfaces. The bearing comprises two coaxial radially extending bearing plates and a set of rolling elements engaged between the plates. A first of the plates has a first flange extending axially from the inner peripheral edge of the first plate. A second of the plates has a second flange extending axially from the inner peripheral edge of the second plate. The flanges are concentric with each other and a radial bearing is interposed therebetween. The first plate has a third flange extending axially from the outer peripheral edge of the first plate and engaging one of the support surfaces to radially locate the first plate. The second plate is radially located relative to the structure by either the engagement of its second flange or the engagement of a fourth flange with the other of the support surfaces, the fourth flange extending axially from the outer peripheral edge of the second plate.

Abstract: A composite bearing comprises a cup having a set of antifriction bearing elements around its inner wall, and a deformable washer disposed at the bottom of the cup. The washer comprises a body portion having a stud projecting outwardly from one side thereof and having a recess in the other side thereof opposite the stud. When the composite bearing is mounted on the end of a shaft, the shaft end pushes the stud inwardly towards the body portion and the stud deforms inwardly to at least partly fill the recess. The deformed pushing of the stud in the recess effectively reduces the reaction force exerted by the washer against the end face of the shaft and eliminates play between the bearing and shaft thereby reducing slapping of the end of the shaft against the bottom of the bearing cup.

Abstract: A steering head set assembly for a bicycle or the like wherein the conventional ball bearings are replaced by obliquely disposed needle or roller bearings, some embodiments including an elastic element to enable the bearings to be pre-stressed and provide vibration isolation.

Abstract: A collapsible shaft assembly forming part of a universal coupling, such as in the steering system of a motor vehicle, has outer and inner sleeves, a co-axial elastomeric sleeve in radial compression there between, a shaft rotatably coupled to and axially slideable within the inner sleeve and a shearable lock to hold the shaft axially relatively to the inner sleeve up to a given, minimum axial load, such as in a motor vehicle collision.

Abstract: A combined radial and axial bearing device wherein the axial or thrust bearing has limited axial movement relative to the radial bearing to make the bearing device easier to fit and be capable of accommodating a range of tolerances in the size of a support housing the bearing device.

Abstract: A self-aligning bearing has an outer radial bearing ring formed with a convex outer surface mounted in a concave outer casing having a complementary surface to provide limited universal angular movement of the bearing. Axial thrust bearings are provided at opposite ends of the bearing between the ends of the outer radial bearing ring and radial flanges on the ends of the inner radial bearing ring, to allow movement of the outer bearing ring and prevent overloading of the bearing ends of the bearing members.

Abstract: Provided herein is a combined radial and axial bearing wherein one or both axial bearings are attached to the end faces of the radial bearing bushing to form a monoblock unit bearing which has the advantages of simplyfing tolerances, compensation for differential expansion and handling and mounting.

Abstract: A bearing assembly is formed of an elastic sleeve in a bore, a radial roller bearing in the bore supporting a shaft in the bore, and a thrust bearing in the sleeve and axially abutting the radial bearing.

Abstract: Method for mounting a cylindrical bearing having a closed end wall around a trunnion of a cross member of a universal joint by fitting the bearing in a bore of the corresponding yoke under such conditions that the end wall of the bearing affords an elastically yieldable support, optionally through intermediate means, for the end face of the trunnion. The method comprises giving to the end face of the trunnion and to the parts conjugate therewith, namely the end wall of the bearing and/or the intermediate means, such an arrangement that, in a first stage of said fitting, when the parts conjugate with the end face merely come in contact with the latter and possibly in mutual contact, a first axial distance between the open end of the bearing and the end face is distinctly less than a second axial distance which must be finally obtained between the open end of the bearing and the end face.

Abstract: The method for producing the transmission device including coupling means connected to a sleeve comprises forming a collar from an apertured blank of the coupling means and cold forming projecting portions on the outer surface of the collar for connecting the collar to rotate with the sleeve. The projecting portions may be formed by expanding the collar in a die from which die the collar is removed before connection to the sleeve. Alternatively, the projecting portions may be formed by radially expanding the collar in the sleeve whose inner surface has projecting portions which form the projecting portions of the collar upon contact with the collar during the expansion of the latter.

Abstract: An annular race plate for a thrust rolling bearing having the feature that at least the connection region between the radial portion of the plate acting as a race for the rolling elements and an axial portion for engaging an axial support surface of a support is provided with gaps, such as apertures having a closed-curve contour or apertures defining circumferentially spaced tabs, so as to impart resilience to the axial portion.In the form comprising tabs the race plates may be stacked in a compact manner with tabs of one plate penetrating the gaps between the tabs of the adjoining plate.

Abstract: The pinion of a rack and pinion steering mechanism is assembled in a case by means of two bearings mounted on two bearing portions at each end of the pinion which are integral parts of the pinion. The bearings are capable of acting as two axial abutments for the pinion. One of the bearings is a cup acting as a smooth bearing. Longitudinally extending lubricating grooves are provided in the bearing portion within the cup. These grooves are extensions of the spare between roots of the gear teeth of the pinion and are machined by causing the tooth cutter to continue beyond the pinion and thereby cut the grooves in the bearing portion.

Abstract: The bearing structure for guiding two relatively moving parts comprises a first linear raceway and second linear raceway connected to the first raceway by two circularly-shaped passages for rolling elements interposed between the raceways. The first raceway has a convex transverse profile.

Abstract: The device comprises an elastically yieldable collar in the form of a thin-walled ring and there is engaged in this ring a thin sleeve which serves as a raceway for the rolling elements of the radial rolling bearing to be mounted by the device. The sleeve has an elasticity enabling it to deform radially under the action of forces transmitted thereto by the rolling elements and is preformed in accordance with an irregular profile which defines circumferentially of the sleeve alternately cylindrical segments defining a usual radial clearance of the rolling elements and inwardly offset cylindrical segments which define a passage for the rolling elements of reduced radial width.

Abstract: The thrust rolling bearing is to be axially supported by a radial surface of a support. The retaining means of the bearing comprise a first portion for retaining the cage and a raceway plate relative to each other and a second portion which is provided with maintaining means adapted to cooperate with complementary means on the support so as to maintain the bearing assembled with the support. The first and second portions are adjacent to each other at a circumferential edge of the raceway plate.

Abstract: Bearing having in a body two rectilinear inner raceways interconnected by semi-circular inner end surfaces, particular outer end surfaces defining roller re-circulation passages with the semi-circular inner surfaces, and rollers which roll along the raceways and pass round the re-circulation passage. The rollers are guided at the roller ends by guide surfaces and are exposed on one of the sides of the bearing body. The rollers are retained radially to within a predetermined distance from the rectilinear inner raceways by means associated with the rollers and disposed in grooves in the bearing body adjacent the guide surfaces. Alternatively, the means associated with the rollers may be engaged in grooves defined between an edge of an aperture in a plate and a part of the bearing body, the plate being interposed between the corresponding end of the rollers and a part of the bearing body and defining an end guide surface for the rollers.

Abstract: To produce on at least one of the end faces of opposed trunnions of the cross member of a universal joint a bearing surface for the end wall of a bearing cup, or for a resilient washer interposed between the cup end wall and the trunnion, there is chosen for the distance between the centre of the cross member and the centre region of the end face a value which is different from the value of the desired distance in joint operation. This centre region is then subjected to the action of a tool whose hardness exceeds that of the metal of the trunnion by causing the tool to travel such distance that the active surface of the tool occupies a position in which there is formed, by a cold upsetting of the metal, a centre bearing surface which is at a distance from a reference point, such as the centre of the cross member, which is substantially equal to the desired value of the distance in joint operation.

Abstract: The thrust bearing comprises an annular support within which at least one annular plate is retained. The plate defines either a planar slideway if the bearing is a smooth bearing or a planar raceway if the bearing is a rolling bearing. At least one axially deformable annular elastically yieldable member is retained in the support and applied against the plate.