PRINCIPAL STANDARD BEARING TYPES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 516.

Fig.1 Radial contact bearing terminology.

Cages, sometimes called separators or retainers, are used to space the rolling elements from each other. Cages are furnished in a wide variety of materials and construction. Pressed-steel cages, riveted or clinched and filled nylon, are most common. Solid machined cages are used where greater strength or higher speeds are required. They are fabricated from bronze or phenolic-type materials. At high speeds, the phenolic type operates more quietly with a minimum amount of friction. Bearings without cages are referred to as full-complement.

A wide variety of rolling-contact bearings are normally manufactured to standard boundary dimensions (bore, outside diameter, width) and tolerances which have been standardized by the AFBMA. All bearing manufacturers conform to these standards, thereby permitting interchangeability.

basic type of bearing is furnished in several standard ‘‘series'' as illustrated in Fig.2. Although the bore is the same, the outside diameter, width, and ball size are progressively larger. The result is that a wide range of load-carrying capacity is available for a given size shaft, thus giving designers considerable flexibility in selecting standard-size interchangeable bearings. Some of the more common bearings are illustrated below and their characteristics described briefly.

 

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