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Images1(left)&2(right).Image1showsanondriveendcombinedthrustandjournalbearing
assembly,whileImage2showsadriveendjournalbearing.(ImagescourtesyofKingsburyInc.)
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Image3.Nondriveendwithcoverremovedshowingcomponents
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Because these bearings may run heavily loaded, the lube oil
must quickly be circulated through the system and cooled to
the proper temperature before returning to the bearing
cavity. Oil from the reservoir is drawn into a bronze ring
called the circulator, which is assembled around the collar.
The oil adheres to the collar and moves toward a dam inside
the oil circulator, passing through ports leading to spaces
between the lowest shoes on both sides. Shaft rotation carries
the lightly pressurized oil flow to the other shoes before it
escapes above the collar into a passage leading down to the
cooler and finally returns to the reservoir.
Besides the ports previously mentioned, another set is
arranged to allow the oil to circulate during reverse rotation
of the collar. When the direction of rotation changes, the
oil's adhesive qualities rotate the circulator until the lug at the
top of the circulator meets a stop. In either of the two stop
positions, oil enters the groove in the circulator by the
proper ports for the prevailing direction of rotation and is
discharged through other ports into the spaces between the
lower shoes.
The built-in journal bearing is self-aligning and able to take
full advantage of the oil film's load-carrying capacity. Testing
has shown that shorter journal shells run with unbroken
films under severe radial loads imposed by the pump runner.
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Image4.Driveendjournalbearing(withcoverremoved)islubricatedbyoilpipedbytheoil
circulatorofthenondriveendbearing.
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