Title: Water pump

Abstract: A water pump for motor vehicles having a pump wheel arranged at the end of a shaft. A belt driven pulley is connected to the shaft for rotating the shaft and a bearing journals the shaft. The bearing has a fixed race, a rotatable race and two rows of roll bodies located therebetween. The shaft and the pulley are integrally connected to the rotatable race and the pulley has a rim for receiving a drive belt extending about the bearing so that the line of application of the force acting on the bearing lies between the two rows of roll bodies.

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Inventors: Ernst, Horst M. (Eltingshausen, DT)
Brandenstein, Manfred (Aschfeld, DT)
Olschewski, Armin (Schweinfurt, DT)

Application Number: 515651
Filing Date: 1974-10-17
Publication_date: 1976-09-21
Assignee: SKF Industrial Trading and Development Company, B.V. (Amsterdam, NL)
Primary Class(es): 415/124.2 123/41.12, 415/174.3, 415/230, 416/244R
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US Patent Ref:

2206488	Jul, 1940	Pavlecka et al.	415/219.
2365065	Dec, 1944	Frankenfield	415/219.
2470071	May, 1949	Hilton	308/180.
2568646	Sep, 1951	Little	415/219.
3306223	Feb, 1967	Liebig	415/173.
3632220	Jan, 1972	Lansinger	415/219.
3723029	Mar, 1973	Laing	123/41.
3861170	Jan, 1975	Asberg	415/219.
3871790	Mar, 1975	Rameau	415/219.

Other Refs: 57,560

Mar, 1919	SW

Primary Examiner: Raduazo, Henry F.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Schaffer; Murray