Patent ID: 7836742

Claim:
Device (I) for sealing the barrel side of the bearing of a roll neck ( 2 ), with a sleeve ( 3 ), which is fitted on the roll neck ( 2 ) and to which a race ( 5 ) is fixed; with a bearing bush ( 7 ) supported in a chock ( 6 ); with rotary shaft seals, which are coordinated with the chock ( 6 ) by a mounting ( 11 ) and have radial lips ( 13 , 13 ′) that interact with the race ( 5 ); and with a sealing assembly ( 16 ) arranged in front of the rotary shaft seals towards the barrel of the roll ( 4 ), wherein the mounting ( 11 ) and the radial lips ( 13 , 13 ′) together with a sealing lip ( 15 , 15 ′) of the sealing assembly ( 16 ), form a unit that is detachably joined with the chock ( 6 ) to provide a seal, wherein amount of oil particles that are collected is adjusted by a size of an opening of an oil collection pocket ( 21 ) formed in the mounting ( 11 ) and that the amount of oil particles that are stored in the oil collection pocket ( 21 ) is set by an oblique position of the oil collection pocket ( 21 ) relative to the horizontal rolling axis of the roll ( 4 ) and a depth of the oil collection pocket ( 21 ).