Patent ID: 7272886

Claim:
A bearing press comprising: a frame that has an internally treaded mounting; an externally threaded pressing shaft for providing a pushing force to a component, the pressing shaft being received in the internally threaded mounting; and a support adaptor assembly having an elongate rectangular shaped header plate, which has a slot in either end and a centrally located unthreaded hole, two support rods that are each received in one of the slots in the header plate and extend downwards relative to the direction of the pushing force of the pressing shaft comma the length of each support rod below the header plate being adjustable, and a stirrup shaped adaptor attached to an end of each support rod for connecting an object to the support rods and locating the object relative to the header plate such that the pressing shaft can push a component into the object, the header plate being located above the internally threaded mounting such that the pressing shaft extends through the centrally located unthreaded hole and the internally threaded mounting.