Patent ID: 8057105

Claim:
A cage for use in a roller bearing, said cage comprising: a pair of generally semicircular moulded plastic parts joined together having releasable fixing means at their ends, the generally semicircular moulded plastic parts each comprising a set of pockets for receiving and locating rollers, said pair of generally semicircular moulded plastic parts being detachably interconnected to each other by inter-engagement of the releasable fixing means to form a complete generally circular cage, and wherein the diameter of the generally circular cage, when assembled from the pair of generally semicircular moulded plastic parts, is less when measured between the interconnections between the pair of generally semicircular moulded plastic parts (D 1 ) than at right angles thereto (D 2 ) according to the formula: 0.5>( D 2 âˆ’D 1)/ D 1>0.005.