Abstract: A cage for ball bearings consists of two side rings connected together by webs, and having ball pockets with ball pockets having curved partial surfaces inside and outside of the pitch circle and displaced from one another in the axial direction. In this arrangement the rubbing between the walls of the cage pockets and the balls is very small and free space is provided for receiving a lubricant. The pocket walls of the cage sections lying in the region of one or the other of the side rings has several radially-overlying zones, with conical surfaces, the conical surfaces being arranged at different inclinations to the bearing axis.

Abstract: A packing seal for closing the space between a rotating shaft and a stationary machine part is described. A ring is located in an annular slot formed in one of the shaft or machine parts. The ring is tensioned radially on the rotating or on the non-rotating part and axially spaced from the frontal faces of the slot so that a fluid media can be located therebetween. At least one face of the ring has a plurality of arcuate grooves by which the pressure of the fluid medium between the ring and the opposing frontal face of the slot is generated on rotation of said shaft.