- Industry: Machine tools
- Number of terms: 4249
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- Company Profile:
The Timken Company's expertise is in metallurgy, friction management and power transmission. In using this expertise their goal is to improve the reliability and efficiency of machinery all around the world.
The control of friction and wear by introducing a friction-reducing film between moving surfaces that make contact. It may be a fluid, solid or plastic substance.
Industry:Machine tools
Any substance used to separate two surfaces in motion and reduce the friction or wear of the surfaces.
Industry:Machine tools
A fit or fit up of inner ring, balls, and outer ring which results in the existence of appreciable radial clearance.
Industry:Machine tools
Ring fitting over extended inner ring of insert bearing and having setscrews which pass through holes in inner ring to make contact with shaft.
Industry:Machine tools
Ring having recess on one side which is eccentric in relation to bore and fits over equally eccentric extension of inner ring insert bearing. Collar is turned in relation to inner ring until it locks and then secured to shaft by tightening of setscrews.
Industry:Machine tools
A washer with tongue and prongs to hold a lock nut in place.
Industry:Machine tools
A nut used in combination with a lock washer to hold a bearing in place on a shaft.
Industry:Machine tools
The property of a lubricant that forms a film on the lubricated surface, which resists rupture under given load conditions. It is expressed as the maximum load the lubricated system can support without failure or excessive wear.
Industry:Machine tools
The axial distance from the outside seal face to the toe face.
Industry:Machine tools
The axial distance between the thinnest part of the flex section and the contact line.
Industry:Machine tools
