Abstract: A bearing assembly is disclosed which is useful in mounting the cutter head of a lawn trimming implement to the tubular casing extending forward and downward from the power head. A flexible shaft housed within the tubular casing conveys rotary motion from the power head to the bearing assembly which comprises a short tubular bearing housing within which is a pair of spaced apart bearings. A central bore through the bearings is sized to accept the first end of a drive connector shaft. Within the tubular bearing housing and between the bearings is a lubricant holding annular felt ring. Adjacent the first end of the drive connector shaft is an annular slot which allows the shaft to be secured in the tubular bearing housing by a C-clip keeper. The midsection of the tubular bearing housing has an enlarged diameter as compared to the end sections which contain the bearings.

Abstract: Short, fine fibers having certain aspect ratios and generally triangular cross-section are mixed with particulate material whereby the fibers form a three dimensional network and the mixture is sintered to provide composites containing scattered and enveloped particulate material, which composites have utility as self-lubricating materials or grinding materials.

Abstract: A static pressure bearing device for relatively supporting, in an ambience, an object for relative movement, comprising a fluid supplying portion for supplying a fluid to at least a portion of a surface of the object, and a suction pump for drawing the fluid supplied to the portion of the surface of the object by the fluid supplying portion, so as to substantially prevent leakage of the fluid into the ambience.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas bearing with a bearing surface arranged on a gas permeable element to which a pressure medium can be supplied from an external source. The bearing surface is arranged on a less permeable surface layer, through which holes are made. In order to ensure good gas flow through the holes, the holes extend into the porous material a distance corresponding to at least half the diameter of the holes, and those portions of the holes which are situated inside said surface layer are limited by porous material.

Abstract: A gas-static bearing including a bearing shell formed of porous material compacted at bearing surfaces thereof for supporting a shaft, the bearing surfaces being distributed over a first group of surfaces consisting of at least two cylindrical jacket surfaces disposed concentrically to one another and about a longitudinal axis of the bearing shells and a second group of surfaces consisting of a plurality of circular surfaces disposed in succession along the axis.

Abstract: A gas bearing and shaft assembly includes complementary sets of guiding surfaces formed on the gas bearing and the shaft being mutually spaced apart defining bearing gaps therebetween, at least one guiding surface of each of the sets being a porous gas passage surface, a thin-porous layer adjoining the gas passage surface, a component having a given region disposed upstream of the gas passage surface in flow direction of gas fed under pressure through the component to the gas passage surface and the component having other porous gas-permeable regions, the gas passage surface and the thin porous layer together being denser than the other gas-permeable regions of the component producing a pressure drop at the thin porous layer being substantially greater than at the other gas-permeable regions, and gas outlet paths in communication with the bearing gaps within the bearing.

Abstract: Static pressure-type gas bearing for a high-speed rotary shaft, comprising a porous bearing bushing formed of a pair of hollow cone frustums connected to one another at respective narrow ends thereof.

Abstract: A method for vacuum impregnation of sintered materials, preferably vacuum impregnation of sintered bearings parts, with dry lubricants is disclosed. The impregnation is performed in the following way. The cleaned parts to be impregnated are placed in a glass basin containing a mixture of, for example, molybdenum disulphide and graphite, a thermosetting resin, a solvent and a thermosetting resin extender. The glass basin is placed in a vacuum chamber and the vacuum chamber is then vacuum pumped for a sufficiently long time in order to evacuate the air from the pores of the sintered parts. After that air is again let in into the vacuum chamber until normal air pressure is reached. The sintered parts are taken out and are allowed to air dry. The coating is then cured.

Abstract: A casing for porous self-aligning bushings combines in a single assembly formed from an elastic material all of the members which contribute to hold a bushing in position while allowing it to self-align, fits hubs of any configuration, provides insulation from noise and vibration, recovers lubricant normally expelled during relative rotation between the bushing and shaft therein. The casing can store up an amount of lubricant and, in the instance of a bushing rotating around a stationary shaft, retains the lubricant which would otherwise be forced out by centrifugal force from the outer porous surface of the bushing. A bearing includes such casing and the bushing elastically fitted therein.

Abstract: A method of manufacture of a dry bearing material for high speed, high load purposes is disclosed. A resin paste obtained by kneeding together a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin and a solid lubricant is coated on a porous metallic sintered layer formed on a steel plate such that it fills the interstices of the sintered layer and covers the surface thereof. The solid lubricant is in a thinly rolled state obtained from pulverized solid lubricant, and it is distributed a leaflike or scalelike form and in a striation consisting of multiple layers spaced apart one above another.

Abstract: Improved composite bearings are provided employing cold forming and sintering techniques. Improvements in compositions for impregnating porous layers of composite bearings are provided comprising lead or lead alloy, perfluorinated polymer, particulate thermoplastic polymer and clay in particular proportions. When such materials are formed into bearings and subsequently sintered, improved resistance to stripping and wear is provided.

Abstract: Bicycle chain is made of alternating bushing links and pin links. The bushing links have parallel bushings held in interference fit in bushing plates and extended axially beyond the bushing plates, solid metal rolls with a lubricating plating are held loosely on the bushings, and loosely between the bushing plates. The bushings extend axially outward beyond the bushing plates for substantial distances. Pins extend through the bushings and are fixed in pin plates to form pin links which alternate with the bushing links. The pin plates are held outward from the bushing plates for a substantial amount by the axial bushing extensions to prevent dirt build up. The pin plates, bushing plates and bushings are plated with an anti-corrosion plating. The pins and rolls are plated with a porous metal plating with solid polymeric lubricant held within pores of the plating for lubricating the pin-bushing interior interface and for lubricating the roll-bushing and roll-bushing plate interfaces.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sliding member having a novel micropore structure and an improved seizure resistance and seal property. Conventionally, the surface roughness of a sliding member is defined by, for example, maximum and/or average roughness. In the present invention, first, there is prepared a sliding member which has a hardness of at least HRc 50 and has micropores for determining the surface roughness of the sliding surface thereof, wherein the micropores, when measured with a particle counter, are present essentially in an amount ranging from 5% to 40% based on an area of the sliding surface and ranging from 2,000 to 150,000 per mm.sup.2 on the sliding surface and have a diameter of at least 0.5 .mu.m. A top portion of ridges which define the micropores is slightly rounded, thereby providing flat or round configuration in terms of the relative load curve, the relative load curve being defined by the accumulative percentage (t.sub.k) and the cutting depth (CV.sub.

Abstract: A bearing surface for a hollow link of rectangular cross section including a pair of replaceable axially aligned bushings press-fitted into a pair of seats swaged in opposite sidewalls of the link.

Abstract: A method of forming a plastic lined ball joint is disclosed using a preheated socket with wider than normal dimensional tolerances and a melt-in-place plastic socket liner which melts on forced contact with the heated socket so as to exactly conform with and seat in the socket whereafter the assembly is then quenched to solidify the liner to effect a tight fit with the socket.

Abstract: An article comprising a component of ceramic material and a metal component has a metal felt located between opposed faces of the two components, the metal felt being permanently joined to both the ceramic face and the metal face to join the two components together. The metal felt may be brazed to both components, the brazing alloy being one which chemically combines with the ceramic material. The brazing alloy may be in the form of a foil placed between the metal felt and each of the components, and the brazing may take place in a vacuum.