Underwater bearing protection device

• US 4,524,977 A
• Filed: 12/08/1983
• Issued: 06/25/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nagashima Masaaki
• Original Assignee: Nagashima Masaaki
• Inventors: Masaaki, Nagashima
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Robert I.
• Application Number:
  US06/559,206
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 277/DIG. 8, 277/135, 277/59, 277/3
• US Class Current: 384/132
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 17/14 specially adapted for operating in water
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 33/74 of sliding-contact bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/40 by means of fluid
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 277/907 Passageway in rod or shaft

Abstract

A collar or collars are opposed to a hub and a sealing member or seal members are mounted on the opposed portions of the collars and the hub. A bushing is attached between the hub and a shaft or the hub and the collars and a ring-like hole to which clean water is supplied is formed inside the hub and bushing. A bearing portion between the bushing and the shaft or the cylinder portion is lubricated by the clean water. Also, the clean water is supplied to a clean water pressure portion between the hub, the collar and the seal member and the invasion of sand and mire to the bearing may be prevented.

Claims

1. An underwater bearing protection device comprising:

a fixed shaft,

a sleeve attached on the said fixed shaft,

a bushing rotatably mounted on said sleeve, a hub fixed around the outside of the bushing,

collars having inside edges attached on said sleeve and outside edges respectively covering the both sides of said hub, and sealing members having bases attached on the both edges of said hub or the outside edges of said collars and lips respectively contacted to the outside edges of said collars or the both edges of the hub,

whereby clean water is supplied to a ring-like hole formed in the bushing and hub through a center water supplying passage formed in the center of said fixed shaft and a water passage of said sleeve from a water pipe attached outside said fixed shaft and is supplied to clean water pressure portions between said sealing members and the both edges of the hub and said outside edges of said collars through water passages formed in the hub or gaps between said sleeve and said bushing and between said collars and bushing from said ring-like hole.

2. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the outside edges of said collars are respectively covered the both outside of said hub.

3. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 1 wherein the diameter of said collar is the same as or smaller than that of said hub.

4. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claims 2 or 3 wherein O rings are mounted between the outside edges of said collars and the outside of said hub.

5. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said sealing member is made of a resilient material.

6. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 5 wherein said resilient material is a rubber or plastic material.

7. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 1 wherein a reinforcement is buried in the base of said sealing member.

8. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 1 wherein a reinforcement is attached to the side of the base of said sealing member.

9. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said sealing member is made of stacked tapes having a core in one side.

10. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth claim 1 wherein said sealing member a tape having a resilient covering member is changed a form thereof by water pressure and a core formed inside said covering member.

21. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 4 wherein O rings are mounted between the outside edges of said collars and the outside of said hub.

11. An underwater bearing protection device comprising

a hub attached to a body,

a bushing attached inside said hub,

a collar having a cylinder portion rotationaly attached to the said bushing and an outside edge prvoided with the opening portion of said cylinder portion and covered the sides of said hub and said bushing,

a thrust needle bearing mounted between said outside edge and the side of said bushing,

a rotational shaft, one end of which is fixed into said cylinder portion, and

a sealing member having a base attached to the outside of said hub or the outside edge of said collar and a lip which is contacted with the outside edge of said collar or the outside of said hub, whereby clean water is passaged through a ring-like hole formed in said hub from a water pipe attached to the hub, and is supplied to a clean water pressure portion between said sealing member and the outside of said hub and the outside edge of said collar through a water passage formed on said hub or a gap between said bushing and the cylinder portion of said collar from said ring-like hole.

12. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 11 wherein the outside edge of said collar is covered by the outside of said hub.

13. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 12 wherein an O ring is mounted between the outside edge of said collar and the outside of said hub.

14. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 11 wherein the diameter of said collar is same as or smaller than that of said hub.

15. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 11 wherein said sealing member is made of a resilient material.

16. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 15 wherein said resilient material is of rubber or plastic.

17. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 11 wherein a reinforcement member is buried in the base of said seal member.

18. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 11 wherein a reinforcement member is attached to the side of the base of said sealing member.

19. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth in claim 11 wherein said sealing member is made of stacked tapes having a core in one side.

20. An underwater bearing protection device as set forth claim 11 wherein said sealing member a tape having a resilient covering member changed a form thereof by water pressure and a core formed on the inside of said covering member.