. Automotive industries . rvoir, having large bearing surfaces and per-mitting of great angularity between shafts, has been de-veloped by the Noyes-Richards Engineering Co. As willbe seen by the cut it is somewhat similar to the type ofuniversal joint used on machine tools, as the centralmember connecting the two forks is of spherical formand is provided with two circumferential grooves atright angles to each other in which the forks of the jointengage. The two forks are arranged at right angles, asusual, and are secured to their shafts by a taper jointwith key and nut. Each fork is provided w
. Automotive industries . rvoir, having large bearing surfaces and per-mitting of great angularity between shafts, has been de-veloped by the Noyes-Richards Engineering Co. As willbe seen by the cut it is somewhat similar to the type ofuniversal joint used on machine tools, as the centralmember connecting the two forks is of spherical formand is provided with two circumferential grooves atright angles to each other in which the forks of the jointengage. The two forks are arranged at right angles, asusual, and are secured to their shafts by a taper jointwith key and nut. Each fork is provided with a capwhich has a stepped joint with the fork and is held inplace by two cap screws. The central, spherical portion is a hollow bronze cast-ing and has two holes closed with pipe plugs, throughwhich the lubricant can be introduced. These plugs arelocated on opposite sides of the ball, and one or the otherwill always be in an accessible position. Adjacent to thegrooves in the ball into which the fork rings fit there are. lubricant cartridges. These cartridges are embeddedin the flanges of the ball, which between them form thegrooves for the fork rings. Each cartridge has a lubri-cant inlet opening to the lubricant chamber in the cartridge is bored out and is filled with compressedfelt, which is saturated with lubricant. The felt is com-pressed by forcing a plug into the end of the the side of the cartridge there is an outlet throughwhich the lubricant reaches the bearing surface. The fork ring is formed with an internal flange whichfits into the groove on the bronze ball. The web or back-bone of the fork ring fits into a widened portion of thegroove on the bronze ball and its inner corners arechamfered so as to make room for triangular leatherpackings in the groove at both sides of the ring. Metaldust clips lined with leather washers can be secured tothe bronze ball so as to exclude dust from the joint. It is claimed for this joint that it has more beari
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