Abstract: A seal assembly for sealing between a pair of bearing rings wherein one of the rings has an annular groove for the seal comprising elastic annular ring member having at least one circumferential projection and at least one sealing disk and a retainer member. The volume of the elastic ring, which has been increased by the retaining sections for the parts to be held in place being in the preinstalled state at least the same as that of annular groove in one of the bearing rings.

Abstract: A pivot mounting assembly for movably mounting a steering column of a vehicle in a housing or the like comprising a rolling bearing including an outer ring and a plurality of rolling elements disposed between the steering column and a housing for pivotally mounting the outer ring in the housing including an intermediate mounting member disposed between the outer ring and housing and adopted for positive form locking connection with the housing in an axial direction and including a pair of cooperating retaining ring members having cooperable axially oriented projectors and recesses which are interengageable in a friction locking manner.

Abstract: An axial joint arrangement with integrated seal is provided with three successively arranged bearing rings, the upper and lower bearing rings having spherical guiding surfaces which oppose corresponding spherical surfaces of the middle bearing ring. The upper and lower bearing rings are connected and the middle bearing ring slides therebetween. The guiding surface of the lower bearing ring serves to center and guide the middle bearing ring and the guiding surface of the upper bearing ring serves to transmit operating loads to the middle bearing ring. A first sealing disk is attached to the middle bearing ring. One face of the first sealing disk abuts a first sealing surface and the other face abuts an intermediate disk. The intermediate disk is sealingly connected by a bellows to a second sealing disk, which is in turn connected to a second sealing surface.

Abstract: A sliding bearing for transmitting radial and axial forces, having an inner and an outer bushing, one of the bushings being provided on both faces thereof with flanges projecting radially against the other bushing, which flanges at least partially embrace the faces of the other bushing thus fixing the other bushing therebetween, and a sliding annular insert having a U-shaped cross-section of antifriction material arranged between said bushings, and having annular projections extending axially outward to embrace the flanges on the associated bushing.