US PATENT SUBCLASS 29 / 898.043
.~.~.~.~ Self-adjusting or self-aligning, including ball and socket type, bearing and component making

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592  DF  METHOD OF MECHANICAL MANUFACTURE {54}
898  DF  .~ Process for making bearing or component thereof {13}
898.04  DF  .~.~ Rotary bearing {3}
898.042  DF  .~.~.~ Plain bearing {2}
898.043.~.~.~.~ Self-adjusting or self-aligning, including ball and socket type, bearing and component making {4}
898.044  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> Deforming socket to secure ball {1}
898.047  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> Having liner
898.048  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> Socket making {3}
898.052  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> Ball making {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 29/898.043

Self-adjusting or self-aligning, including ball and socket type, bearing and component making:

(under subclass 898.042) Process for manufacturing a bearing wherein relatively sliding surfaces in a support structure for the bearing permit continuous self-movement of the position of the bearing thereby correcting a misalignment of related components of the bearing included herein are bearings wherein one component has a spheroid portion, i.e., a ball, which is received in a recess of another component, i.e., a socket, and there relative sliding movement between the two components.

(1) Note. The term "ball" is broadly used to refer to a bearing component which includes a spherically shaped bearing

portion but does not refer necessarily to a "ball" in the sense of an entire spheroid surface. The ball in many instances is a truncated "ball", i.e., cut off (more or less) at opposite ends thereof.