US611032A - Antifriction-bearing - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. 20, 1898.

T. R. GARNIER.

ANTIFRICTION BEARING.

(Application filed Mar. 17, 1898.)

(No Model.)-

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS R. GARNIER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGN OR OF ONE- I'IALF TO WILLIAM H. FULLER, OF

SAME PLACE, AND GEORGE W. BECK AND ARTHUR H. OONGER, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.-

ANTIFRICTION-BEAIRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,032, dated September 20, 1898.

Application filed March 17, 1898- Serial No. 674,213. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS R. GARNIER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antifrictional Bearings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in antifrictional bearings for vehicle-wheels, pulleys, or bearing-boxes generally, which consists in the arrangement of parts and details of construction as will be hereinafter fully set forth in the drawings and described and pointed out in the specification.

The essential feature of theinventionis to so construct the bearing that wear upon the end of the journal, axle, or shaft may be obviated and at the same time the bearingballs or wearing parts be at all times covered orinclosed against dust or dirt entering therein, the bearing being so constructed that any portion or part may be readily removed upon becoming worn and quickly replaced by another or new part.

To comprehend the invention, reference must be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this application,

wherein Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view showing the connection between a wheel-hub and its axle, and Fig. 2 is an end view in eleva- 3 5 tion, partly broken away in order to illustrate the position of the bearing-rolls.

In the drawings the letter A is used to indicate an ordinary axle, the reduced end a of which in the present case is screw-threaded,

as shown, so as to receive the bearing-sleeve,

A. Around this bearing-sleeve rotates the hub B, which hub is held in place by means of the face or end plates B B united by the tie-rods B The inner face of each plate is provided near its edge with an inwardly-projecting shoulder 19 and an inwardly-project ing flange b, which providesa circular groove b within which the shoulder d of the hub fits. Each end of the bearing-sleeve is cut away inwardly at an incline and provided ing upon the said sleeve.

The face or end plate B is provided with the circular opening 61', through which the end of the axle A extends. These face or end plates serve as covers by which dirt, grit, or foreign substance is excluded from the bearing-balls.

In the present case I have illustrated the invention as applied to the wheel of an ordi nary vehicle; but it is obvious that the same may be used in connection with pulley or other wheels.

By the interposition of the bearing-sleeve between the Wheel-hub and its axle frictional wear upon the shaft is obviated. As the bearing sleeve or shoulders of the end or face plates become Worn either part may be removed and a new one inserted in lieu thereof. To remove the parts, it is only necessary to unscrew the nuts f from screw-threaded end of the tie-rods, when the face or end plate may be readily separated from the hub and the bearing-sleeve then unscrewed from the end of axle. 7

As the bearing-sleeve does not rotate,I prefer to screw the same onto the end of axle, although it may be united thereto in any suitable manner which will hold the same firmly in place.

An oil-opening may be out in each face or end plate, through which oil may be con- 0 veyed to the ball-bearings, although I have not shown same, as I believe if properly oiled when the parts are placed together further oiling will not be required, as the balls are protected against dirt, dust, or grit by the end or face plates.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure protection in by Letters Patent, is--= l. The combination with the end or face jecting end shoulders which fit within the circular grooveway formed by the projecting flange and shoulder of the end or face plates, the internally-screw-threaded bearing-sleeve located Within the hub and which is adapted to be reinovably secured upon the reduced screw-threaded end of an axle, the bearingballs interposed between the bearing-sleeve and the shoulder of the end or face plates, and of tie-rods for uniting the face or end plates.

2. The combination with the hub, of the end or face plates each provided with a circular grooveway between which the hub is secured, there being circular seats cut in said plates, the bearing sleeve, the axle upon which the bearing sleeve is removably secured, circular seats formed in each end of the said sleeve, and of the bearing-balls fitted Within the seat of the end or face plates and the bearing-sleeve.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 28th day of February, 1898.

THOMAS H. GARNIER.

Witnesses:

N. A. AOKER, LEE 1). CRAIG.

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