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What Are Taper Roller Bearings?

Tapered roller bearings are radial thrust rolling bearings with tapered rollers. There are small cone angles and large cone angles, two kinds. Small cone angles mainly bear radial load, primarily radial and axial joint load; it often is used in pairs, reverse installation, inside and outside the seat can be installed separately, in the installation of the use of radial and axial clearance can be adjusted. Large cone angles mainly bear axial load, primarily axial and radial joint load, generally not used alone to bear the pure axial load when the configuration of the pairs (homonymous end of the relative mounting) can be used to bear the pure radial load.

Types of Tapered Roller Bearings

Single-Row Taper Roller Bearings: Single-row tapered roller bearings have an outer ring. Its inner ring and a set of tapered rollers by the basket-shaped keep frame encompassed into an inner ring assembly. Its outer ring can be separated from the inner ring assembly.

Double-Row Taper Roller Bearings: Double-row tapered roller bearing outer ring (or inner ring) is a whole. Two inner rings (or outer rings), small end faces are close; there is a spacer in the middle; clearance is by the thickness of the spacer to adjust, and can also be used to change the thickness of the spacer double row tapered roller bearings pre-surge.

Four-Row Taper Roller Bearings: Four rows of tapered roller bearings, the performance of such bearings and double rows of tapered roller bearings are basically the same; still, more than double rows of tapered roller bearings to withstand the radial load is greater, the limit of the rotational speed is slightly lower, mainly used for heavy machinery.

Application Areas of Tapered Roller Bearings

1. Automobile industry: Used in wheel hubs, gearboxes, drive shafts and other parts of automobiles.

2. Industrial machinery, such as machine tools, milling machines, drilling machines and other types of mechanical equipment, spindle and shaft systems.

3. Rolling mill equipment: Plays an important support and transmission role in the mill.

4. Mining machinery, including crushers, mineral processing equipment, etc.

5. Wind power industrial equipment: Used in wind turbine gearboxes and other key parts.

6. Agricultural machinery, such as tractors, harvesters and so on.

What Are the 4 Basic Parts of a Tapered Roller Bearing?

Inner ring, outer ring, roller, cage.

Are Tapered Roller Bearings Better Than Ball Bearings?

Tapered roller bearings and ball bearings have their characteristics and advantages; we can not simply say that tapered roller bearings must be better than ball bearings; they are suitable for different working conditions and needs.

What Angle Are Tapered Roller Bearings?

According to the size of the taper angle, tapered roller bearings can be categorised into two types: small taper angle and large taper angle. The small taper angle has a taper between 10 degrees and 19 degrees, while the large taper angle has a taper between 25 degrees and 29 degrees. The larger the taper, the greater the load capacity of the bearing.


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