Patent ID: 6394659
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: F16C,Y10T

Abstract:
A cage component for use in a roller bearing, said component being made from a pair of separate parts or blanks bent to shape and joined together, the blanks having continuous wall portions for overlapping the ends of rollers as the sides of the component and projections spaced apart along the continuous wall portions and aligned to form pockets for receiving and locating the rollers with at least some of the corresponding aligned projections of the blanks being joined to one another at a central region between the continuous wall portions, wherein the blanks are semi-circular and the component is equipped with integral inter-engageable complementary releasable fixing means at its opposite ends for enabling the component to be detachably interconnected with another similar component to form a complete circular cage and the regions where the aligned projections of the blanks are joined together are defined by face-to-face overlapping portions of the projections extending predominantly perpendicular to the continuous wall portions.