US Patent: 3,341,262 - Recirculating Bearing


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US Patent: 3,341,262

Recirculating Bearing

Patentee:

Joseph m Kalmanek (exact or similar names) - Cicero, Cook County, IL

USPTO Classifications:

384/44

Tool Categories:

metalworking machines : metalworking machine mechanisms : metalworking machine bearings

Assignees:

Scully-Jones & Co. - Chicago, Cook County, IL

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Dec. 21, 1964
Granted:	Sep. 12, 1967

Patent Pictures:

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Description:

Claim:

In a recirculating way bearing, in combination, inner race means providing a continuous track, a plurality of rollers disposed on said track and movable around the same in substantially abutted relation to one another, said rollers being generally cylindrical and each having a reduced diameter central portion approximately midway between its ends, and an endless elastic tension band extending around the periphery of said track so as to overlie the reduced diameter central portions of said rollers and thereby maintain said rollers in close association with said track and in proper alignment thereon, said tension band being nonmetallic and highly flexible both radially and laterally.