An assembly is described for reducing the moment from a deflected shaft. A shaft includes a shaft body and an outer shaft surface. A bearing includes an inner race engaging the shaft, the inner race including an inner race surface and a race body with axial edges. When the shaft body or a portion of the bearing is deflected from a nominal axis of relative rotation, the shaft body applies a force to the bearing at an axially outermost location that is axially inward from at least one of the axial edges of the race body. Accordingly, an effective line of action of the force is applied at a location that is axially removed from the at least one of the axial edges of the race body towards a central plane of the bearing.

A non-split bearing design for use with a harvester pick-up reel. In one specific embodiment, the outer member directly engages the inner member. In another embodiment, the bearing is provided as being an interchangeable roller bearing, and in that case there is preferably an intermediate member which is disposed between the outer member and the inner member. Regardless, providing that the bearing is non-split provides that the design is simplified, as well as provides that the inner bore, i.e., the bore which engages the bat tube, can be more easily controlled, thereby reducing or even eliminating service requirements.

A roller of a support arrangement for a rotary milking platform, where the support arrangement includes a first rail member fixedly connected to the rotary platform, a second rail member stationarily arranged in a position below the platform, and a plurality of rollers arranged in a vertical space between the first rail member and the second rail member. Each roller includes a peripheral surface comprising a contact surface to be in contact with a contact portion of the first rail member and a contact portion of the second rail member. The peripheral surface of the roller includes two beveled surfaces arranged at opposite sides of the contact surface which are located at a smaller distance from a rotary axis of the roller than the contact surface.

A shaft includes a head part having an outer diameter greater than an inner diameter of an inner ring and being in contact with a side surface on one axial end side of the inner ring, and a column part extending from the head part toward the other axial end side and having an axial width greater than a bearing. An external periphery of the other axial end portion of the column part is formed with a male screw to be fastened with a support arm. A side surface on one axial end side of the shaft is formed with a concave section to which a tool capable of rotating the shaft is to be fitted. A bottom part of a housing is formed with a through-hole into which the tool can be inserted, at a position facing the concave section.

A hub-bearing assembly for rotatably mounting a tilling disc about an axis of rotation. The hub-bearing assembly includes an annular hub providing an axially extending tubular portion, comprising a housing and a radially outer flange for mounting a disc. A bearing unit is mounted within the housing. An elastic damping body axially is fitted between the radially outer flange and the disc.

A bearing assembly for a drive shaft guided in a protective tube is provided with bearing tube segments arranged in the protective tube one after another in a longitudinal direction of the protective tube. The bearing tube segments are penetrated by the drive shaft. The bearing tube segments include bearing sections. The bearing sections are provided with a central bearing sleeve and support elements projecting away from an outer circumference of the bearing sleeve. The bearing sleeve is radially supported by the support elements on an inner circumference of the protective tube. The bearing section with its bearing sleeve and support elements is formed as one piece. The bearing tube segments have a length measured in a longitudinal direction of the protective tube and the sum of the lengths of the bearing tube segments is greater than 60% of a length of the protective tube.

A bearing assembly for a drive shaft guided in a protective tube is provided with bearing tube segments arranged in the protective tube one after another in a longitudinal direction of the protective tube. The bearing tube segments are penetrated by the drive shaft. The bearing tube segments include bearing sections. The bearing sections are provided with a central bearing sleeve and support elements projecting away from an outer circumference of the bearing sleeve. The bearing sleeve is radially supported by the support elements on an inner circumference of the protective tube. The bearing section with its bearing sleeve and support elements is formed as one piece. The bearing tube segments have a length measured in a longitudinal direction of the protective tube and the sum of the lengths of the bearing tube segments is greater than 60% of a length of the protective tube.

A rotary feed-through, designed to transfer a fluid between two entities in rotary motion with respect to one another. The rotary feed-through includes an inner cylindrical ring and an outer cylindrical ring, which are free to turn with respect to one another and provided with channels for passage of the fluid. The channels are connected via at least one annular space axially delimited by seal rings housed in a cylindrical seat. The cylindrical seat faces radially outwards or inwards and is axially delimited, on one side, by an axial abutment of the inner and outer cylindrical rings and, on the other side, by an axial abutment of a lid, a closing ring, or an intermediate ring. The seal rings are interference fitted to the inner or outer cylindrical ring and provided with an elastic portion for contact with the surface of the inner or outer cylindrical ring.

A bearing unit (10) has a radially outer ring (31), a radially inner ring (33), an eccentric locking collar (40), a row of rolling bodies (32), and a sealing device (50). The sealing device (50) is arranged on the same side as the locking collar (40) and is interposed between the radially inner ring (33), the radially outer ring (31) and the locking collar (40). The sealing device (50) includes a metal shield (55) stably connected to the radially outer ring (31), and an elastomeric component (60) co-molded on the shield (55) in a radially inward direction. The elastomeric component (60) has a plurality of lips, of which at least one lip (64, 65) is in contact with the locking collar (40).

A linear plain bearing (1) includes a rail (2) and a carriage (3, 41) with a complementary linear guide (4) which cooperates with the rail (2). The rail (2) is formed as a single-piece double rail (5, 40) with two parallel rail elements (6, 7, 42, 43) in a rail plane (8) and the linear guide (4) of the carriage (3, 41) has two parallel linear guide elements (9, 10) fitting the double rail (5, 40). A first of the rail elements (6, 42) and a first of the linear guide elements (9) form a guide unit (11), where a play-free or low-play sliding guiding is provided by the guide unit (11), and the second rail element (7) with the second linear guide element (10) forms a supporting guide (12).