Wheel support structure

• US 3,307,893 A
• Filed: 05/24/1965
• Issued: 03/07/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Everett H. Williams
• Original Assignee: Everett H. Williams
• Inventors: Williams, Everett H.
• Application Number:
  US04/458,097
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• US Class Current: 384/585
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 27/001 with roller-bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/40 Clamping arrangements where clamping parts are received in recesses of elements to be connected
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/73 Cam locks or thread locks
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 35/063 Fixing them on the shaft with interposition of an element F16C35/07
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 411/943 Flexible washer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/7018 including separably interposed key

Claims

1. A RETAINER ASSEMBLY FOR SECURING A HUB TO A SPINDLE COMPRISING, A ROLLER BEARING HAVING AN INNER RACE SECURED TO THE SPINDLE AND AN OUTER RACE SECURED TO THE HUB, A SEMI-SPHERICAL DEPRESSION OF PREDETERMINED RADIUS IN THE SPINDLE, A LOCKING WASHER HAVING A TUBULAR PORTION ON SAID SPINDLE ABOVE SAID DEPRESSION AND HAVING ONE END ADJACENT SAID INNER RACE, AN INTERNAL AXIAL GROOVE IN SAID TUBULAR PORTION HAVING A RADIUS SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN SAID PREDETERMINED RADIUS, A SPHERICAL BALL IN SAID DEPRESSION AND ADAPTED TO BE RECEIVED IN SAID GROOVE TO PROHIBIT ROTATION OF SAID LOCKING WASHER ON THE SPINDLE WHILE PERMITTING AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID LOCKING WASHER, EXTERIOR THREADS ON THE SPINDLE ADJACENT THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID LOCKING WASHER, A NUT RECEIVED ON SAID THREADS AND CONTACTING SAID OPPOSITE END OF SAID LOCKING WASHER TO PROHIBIT AXIAL MOVEMENT OF SAID LOCKING WASHER AND SAID INNER RACE, AND MEANS FOR LOCKING SAID NUT AGAINST ROTARY MOVEMENT ON THE SPINDLE.