Process for manufacturing roller bearings

• US 3,188,719 A
• Filed: 03/01/1963
• Issued: 06/15/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daniel J. Howles
• Original Assignee: Daniel J. Howles
• Inventors: Howles, Daniel J.
• Application Number:
  US04/262,127
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• US Class Current: 29/898.064
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/26 with a single row of rollers
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/4629 made from metal, e.g. cast or machined window cages
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/467 Details of individual pockets, e.g. shape or roller retaining means
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 43/083 by plastic deformation of the cage
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49686 Assembling of cage and rolling anti-friction members

Claims

1. A METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING ROLLER BEARINGS HAVING INNER AND OUTER RACES WITH A RETAINER HAVING ROLLER RECEIVING OPENINGS SEPARATED BY BARS WITH RETAINING LUGS COMPRISING MOUNTING OF A RACE AND A RETAINER IN GENERALLY CONCENTRIC RELATION ON A JIG, INCREMENTALLY MOVING THE RETAINER TO SUCCESSIVE POSITIONS, PLACING ROLLERS IN THE OPENINGS, MOVING A GROUND ELECTRODE INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE RETAINER AND A DEFORMING ELECTRODE INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE LUGS, PASSING OF CURRENT THROUGH THE GROUND ELECTRODE RETAINER AND LUGS TO HEAT THE ENGAGED LUGS TO A MALLEABLE CONDITION WITHOUT CAUSING SPARKING BETWEEN THE RETAINER AND THE ROLLERS, AND THEN FURTHER PRESSING THE DEFORMING ELECTRODE TO BEND THE ENGAGED MALLEABLE LUGS OVER AN ADJACENT ROLLER IN TO SPACED ROLLER RETAINING POSITION.