Patents Assigned to The Torrington Company Limited
  • Sealed roller bearings
    Patent number: 4385789
    Abstract: Rollers of a roller bearing are disposed between a cup-shaped bearing shell and a trunnion which forms part of a cruciform member of a universal joint. The interior of the bearing is sealed by an elastomeric sealing member onto which an in-turned end lip on the bearing shell is snap-fitted by virtue of an inclined ramp surface on the sealing member, the end lip being thereby received in an annular groove in the sealing member. The latter is axially seated against a shoulder and a fillet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: The Torrington Company Limited
    Inventor: Robert S. Batt
  • Cutting or grinding tool protecting guard
    Patent number: 4040336
    Abstract: A protective guard for a machine tool system including a cutting or grinding member which is movable from a first position wherein access to the cutting or grinding member is barred to a second position wherein the cutting or grinding member is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: The Torrington Company Limited
    Inventors: Terence John Lewis, Raymond Brooks, John Selby