Patent ID: 7210854

Claim:
A cage for cylindrical rolling-contact elements comprising webs, wherein the webs comprise sections that extend parallel to the cage axis, lie partially inside and partially outside a pitch circle formed by the cylindrical rolling-contact elements and are connected to one another by sections that extend obliquely to the cage axis, and two side rings, the webs connecting the side rings to one another, the side rings and the webs forming at least one pocket, two cylindrical rolling-contact elements in contact with one another at their lateral surfaces being arranged in series in a circumferential direction in each of said at least one pocket, each of the two rolling-contact elements being guided parallel to a cage axis by the webs, the side rings having stub-shaped webs in the center of the pockets, each stub-shaped web projecting partially into a pocket between the two rolling-contact elements, the cage being rolled into a round shape from a profiled sheet-metal strip, the ends of which are connected to one another after it has been bent into a round shape, and the stub-shaped webs being dimensioned and located such that the stub-shaped webs have no contact with the rolling-contact elements during rotation of the cage.