Axle box for railway wagon bogie - bearings are retained by rubber and metal ring which is horizontally split

摘要

For roller bearings located in lateral cheeks in the axle box and also transverse location members. On the outside of the axle box is a coaxial rubber ring. The bearings are locked in by this. The rubber ring is faced by metal rings both externally and internally applied by vulcanisation. The ring is split horizontally, along the axis of the axle. The rubber part of the upper half is of harder material than the corresponding part of the lower half. The faces between the two half rings can have a shoulder at right angles to the axle box centre.