Patent ID: 7210853
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: F16C,F16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An industrial gear unit, comprising: a high speed input shaft; a low speed output shaft; a housing supporting the high speed input shaft and the low speed output shaft; an intermediate shaft, with two ends, provided between the high and low speed shafts and housed within the housing; a pair of axially outwardly facing abutment surfaces ( a pair of tapered roller bearings with outer bearing cups abutting the outwardly facing abutment surfaces, the pair of taper roller bearings being mounted axially spaced apart on the intermediate shaft and orientated such that a roller of each bearing increases in diameter in a direction away for the other bearing of the pair; and two circlip grooves ( a first circlip ( a second circlip ( the gear unit is an industrial gear unit, and the first and second circlips hold the two taper roller bearings in an O-configuration held under a required axial pre-load.