Types of Bearings
Metric Ball Bearings
Are probably the most common type of bearing. They are found in everything from electric motors to hard drives. They can handle both radial and thrust loads, and are usually found in applications where the load is relatively small.
Metric Roller Bearings
Are used in applications like conveyer belt rollers, where they must hold heavy radial loads. In these bearings, the roller is a cylinder, so the contact between the inner and outer race is not a point but a line. This spreads the load out over a larger area, allowing the roller bearing to handle much greater loads than a ball bearing. However, this type of roller bearing is not designed to handle much thrust loading.
Needle Bearings
Needle Bearings are roller bearings with cylindrical rollers which are thin and long in relation to their diameter. They are referred to as Needle Rollers. In spite of their low cross section, the bearings have a high load carrying capacity and are thus eminently suitable for bearing arrangements where radial space is limited.
Plastic Bearings
Plastic Bearings include conveyor and end cap bearings, skate wheels, radial bearings, pulleys and thrust races. The core feature of every plastic bearing product is the rolling element bearing.
Rod Ends (Bearings)
Housings are horizontally split and have two or four attachment bolt holes in the base as standard. Rod Ends are compact self-aligning spherical bushings that can support a large radial load and a bi-directional axial load at the same time.
Taper Roller Bearings
Taper housings are horizontally split and have two or four attachment bolt holes in the base as standard. Taper bearings have tapered inner and outer ring raceways between which tapered rollers are arranged. Taper roller design makes them particularly suitable for the accommodation of combined (radial and axial) loads.
Split Roller Bearings
Revolvo split roller bearings have been designed and developed to maximise service life and minimise maintenance effort. The split to the shaft feature enables you to fit the bearing without having access to the shaft ends, it can be built around the shaft saving hundreds of pounds in unnecessary downtime as there is no need to remove other drive components.
Spherical Roller Bearings
Spherical Roller Bearings consist of two rows of rollers with a common spherical raceway in the roller bearing outer ring and two inner ring raceways inclined at an angle to the spherical roller bearing axis.
Spherical Plain Bearing
Spherical Plain Bearings are self-aligning spherical plain bushings that have inner and outer rings with spherical sliding surfaces, and can take a large radial load and a bi-directional axial load at the same time.
There are many types of Spherical Plain Bearings, but they are basically divided into steel-on-steel types and maintenance-free types according to the kind of sliding surfaces.
Formula One Bearings (RF1)
Revolvo Formula 1 produce high performance bearings for Formula One motor sport applications. Offering collaborative flexible design and cellular manufacturing processes, to provide high quality products and service.
Self Lube Bearings & Inserts
Self Lube Bearings / Bearing Inserts, commonly known as a wide inner ring bearing, are basically deep groove ball bearings to the internationally popular 6200 series configuration with integral design features making them more functional and versatile than the standard ball bearing.
Adaptor Sleeves
Adaptor sleeves are the universal way of mounting bearings with a tapered bore onto cylindrical shafts. Their use is widespread with both self aligning ball bearings and spherical roller bearings allowing the bearing to be seated anywhere on a cylindrical shaft
Withdrawal Sleeves
Withdrawal sleeves are used to mount bearings with a tapered bore on a shaft with a cylindrical seat abutted against a fixed shoulder.
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