Patent ID: 7237958
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: F16C

Abstract:
1. The bearing stiff plate pedestal comprising a stiff plate with two mounting feet machined into the plate, one projecting transversely from either side of said plate, said feet seating onto a base of an outer pedestal housing to mount said stiff plate in approximately the same location from which an original spring plate pedestal was removed, said bearing stiff plate pedestal including a bearing with Babbitted tilting pads each tilting pad having a self-alignment feature to maintain alignment of the individual pads to the journal of a rotor being installed, said bearing having an upper half with ears spaced to provide gaps between a bottom surfaces of the ears and top surfaces of the stiff plate pedestal, with one or more shimmed saddle blocks that contact the cylindrical bore, and with flanges that have faces which extend outward beyond the cylindrical bore, and which have spaced contact with extending surfaces of the stiff plate pedestal, the space being on the order of 0.005 inches (0.127 mm) so as to locate the bearing axially relative to the stiff plate pedestal.