Thrust / U Rings

Single Direction Thrust Ball Bearings

Single direction thrust ball bearings consist of a shaft washer, a housing washer and a ball and cage thrust assembly.

The bearings are seperable so that mounting is simple as the washers and the ball and cage assembly can be mounted seperately.

Smaller sizes are available with either a flat seating surface on the housing on the housing washer or a sphered housing washer can be used together with a sphered seating washer to compensate for misalignment between the support surface in the housing and the shaft.

Single direction thrust ball bearings, as their name suggest, can accommodate axial loads in one direction and thus locate a shaft axially in one direction. They must not be subjected to any radial load.

Double Direction Thrust Ball Bearings

Double direction thrust ball bearings consist of one shaft washer, two housing washers and two ball and cage thrust assemblies.

The bearings are separable so that mounting is simple.

The housing washers and ball and cage thrust assemblies are identical to those of the single direction bearings.

Smaller bearings are available with either a flat seating surface on the housing washers or with a sphered seating surface. Bearings with sphered housing washers can be used together with sphered seating washers to compensate for misalignment between the housing and shaft.

Double direction thrust ball bearings can accomodate axial loads acting in both directions and can thus serve to axially locate a shaft in both directions. They must not be subjected to any radial load.