TH56437B - Sturdy washers and interchangeable protrusions - Google Patents

Abstract

DC60 (23/07/52) Method of assembling a durability ring between opposing surfaces of inner and outer components that are positioned to fit each other in order to provide a fitted interlocking joint. This involves installing the durability ring on one of the inner and outer components. Thus, the protrusions are received in recesses on the partially matching inner and outer components, and the matching is completed by creating relative movement between the durability ring and the recess to move the protrusions out of the recess and to be compressed between the matching inner and outer components. The durability ring includes a circular strip of elastic material for sandwiching the opposing surfaces of one of the inner and outer components. The circular strip has a number of deformable protrusions that extend radially from there to sandwich the opposing surfaces of one of the inner and outer components.

Claims (4)

Updated 22/09/2015 1. The assembled mounting components include: an external component, which includes opposing top and bottom surfaces, and additionally includes a general cylindrical through hole extending from the top surface to the bottom surface, a through hole defining the first diameter boundary; an internal component, which includes a significantly extended cylindrical rod, and includes opposing top and bottom mounting sections formed at the ends of the internal component, a bottom mounting section positioned at the first axial distance from the top mounting section, top and bottom mounting sections each defining a second diameter boundary smaller than the first diameter, the internal component additionally includes a radial recess extending axially between the top and bottom mounting sections, a radial recess defining a third diameter boundary smaller than the second diameter; and a general cylindrical tolerance ring, which includes a cylindrical wall incorporating opposing top and bottom insert fittings positioned at the axial distance... Two of the upper interfit inserts, a second axial distance significantly equal to the first axial distance of the inner component; the lower and upper interfit inserts, each having a maximum outer diameter significantly equal to the first diameter, and a minimum inner diameter significantly equal to the second diameter; where the lower and upper interfit inserts incorporate a number of inward-facing protrusions extending from the cylindrical wall of the ring to compensate for the misalignment, protrusions that define the boundary of the minimum inner diameter of each associated lower and upper interfit insert; where the mounting assembly can move between the first and second morphologies, where: in the first morphology: the misalignment ring is partially or at least partially axially inserted into the through hole of the outer component in such a way that the lower interfit insert is at least between the axially upper and lower surfaces of the outer component, and the inner component is partially inserted into the misalignment ring in such a way that the lower mounting section is between the axially lower and upper interfit inserts, and the upper mounting section is outside the interfit insert. The top insert is axial, in such a way that the tolerance ring does not touch the far end of the inner component; and in a second concentric shape: the inner component and the tolerance ring are fully axially inserted into the through hole of the outer component, in such a way that the top and bottom mounting parts are aligned with the bottom and top insert fittings of the tolerance ring, respectively. This creates a compression fit between the outer component, the tolerance ring, and the inner component. 2. The assembly in the installation according to claim 1, where the lower and upper interlocking fittings are incorporated with a number of circumferentially spaced and deformed protrusions extending from the cylindrical wall of the ring to compensate for misalignment, where these deformable protrusions define the minimum inner diameter limits of each associated lower and upper interlocking fitting. 3. The assembly in the installation according to claim 1 where, between the lower and upper intersecting fittings, the cylindrical wall is comprised of circumferentially spaced and deformable protrusions extending from the cylindrical wall of the ring to compensate for deviations into the radial recess of the inner component, where these deformable protrusions define a minimum outer diameter boundary that is significantly equal to the third diameter. 4. The assembled mounting components include: an external component, which includes opposite top and bottom surfaces, and additionally includes a through hole extending from the top to the bottom surface; a through hole incorporating opposite top and bottom sections positioned at the first axial distance from the top section, where the top and bottom sections of the through hole are intrinsically close to the top and bottom surfaces of the external component, respectively; the top and bottom sections both defining the first diameter boundary; a through hole incorporating a radial recess positioned between the top and bottom sections; a radial recess defining a second diameter boundary greater than the first; an internal component, which includes a significantly elongated cylindrical shank; an internal component defining a third diameter boundary smaller than the first; and a general cylindrical tolerance ring, which includes a cylindrical wall incorporating opposing top and bottom insert fittings positioned at the second axial distance. From the upper intervening fitting, a second axial distance is significantly equal to the first axial distance of the outer component; the lower and upper intervening fittings both have a maximum outer diameter significantly equal to the first diameter, and a minimum inner diameter significantly equal to the third diameter; where the lower and upper intervening fittings incorporate a number of deformable protrusions spaced outward along the circumference protruding from the cylindrical wall of the ring to compensate for the misalignment; the deformable protrusions that define the maximum outer diameter of each associated lower and upper intervening fitting; where the mounting assembly is movable between the first and second morphologies, such that: in the first morphology, the misalignment ring is partially or at least partially inserted into the through hole in such a way that the lower intervening fitting is axially positioned between the upper and lower parts of the through hole, and the upper intervening fitting is axially positioned outside the through hole, above the upper surface of the outer component, in such a way that the misalignment ring does not contact the outer component; And in the second morphology, the inner component and the tolerance ring are fully axially inserted into the through hole of the outer component, in such a way that the fit below and above the tolerance ring are aligned with the top and bottom of the through hole, respectively. This creates a compression fit between the outer component, the tolerance ring, and the inner component.