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5 Thrust ball bearings
Bearings with Table 1
sphered housing Cages for thrust ball bearings

washers

• can accommodate initial misalignment
• are available in both single (ig. 6) and
double direction designs
• can be used together with a sphered seat
washer adjacent to the housing washer
(ig. 7) or adjacent to a machine component
manufactured with a sphered surface

Appropriate sphered seat washers must be
ordered separately (product tables,

page 482, and page 490) Depending on the
bearing series, they have the basic designa-
Cage Stamped steel, ball Machined brass, ball Machined steel, ball
tion U 2, U 3 or U 4 followed by a two-digit description centred centred centred
number, which identiies the size, e g
5 sphered seat washer U 320 for bearing Sufix – M F
53320

Cages

SKF thrust ball bearings are itted with one
of the cages shown in table 1
For additional information about the suit-
ability of cages , refer to Cages, page 187

Fig. 6 Fig. 7
Single direction bearing with a sphered Bearings with sphered housing washer(s) and sphered seat washer(s)
housing washer

Shaft washer

Housing washer Housing washer Housing washers
Seat washer Seat washers

Single direction Double direction

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