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Cam Followers

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Overview: RBC Bearings Incorporated, founded in 1919, is a prominent manufacturer of both standard and custom-engineered bearings and related products. The company prioritizes innovation, quality, and customer-specific solutions, catering to industries such as construction, mining, and aerospace.
Product Range: RBC offers a wide array of high-quality bearings, including:
  • Needle Roller Bearings: Durable and long-lasting, ideal for heavy-duty applications.
  • Spherical Plain Bearings: Available in various configurations, including maintenance-free options.
  • Cam Followers and Yoke Rollers: Includes standard, heavy-duty, and specialized designs like RBC Roller® and HexLube®.
  • Rod Ends and Self-Lubricating Bearings: Available in commercial and aerospace grades, offering high load capacity and temperature resistance.
  • Thin Section Ball Bearings: Offered in various sizes and materials, with sealing options.
  • Airframe Control Bearings: Designed for aerospace applications, offering high precision and reliability.
  • Custom Designed Bearings: Tailored solutions for specific application needs.
Cam Followers: RBC's cam follower product line ranges from 1/2 inch to 10 inch roller O.D., available in various configurations. Unique products include:
  • RBC Roller®: Offers up to 400% longer life than standard designs, reducing operating costs.
  • HexLube®: Features a grease fitting for easy relubrication, reducing inventory needs.
  • CamCentric®: Allows adjustable height for precise application requirements.
Technical Features: RBC cam followers are designed for high performance, featuring end-guided cylindrical rollers, enhanced protection seals, and maintenance-free options. They are suitable for high-speed and high-load applications.
Customer Support: RBC provides extensive customer support through a network of distributors and sales engineers worldwide. The company emphasizes quality control and just-in-time manufacturing to meet customer needs efficiently.
Warranty and Disclaimer: RBC products come with a 90-day warranty for material and workmanship. The company disclaims any liability for errors or omissions in the catalog and emphasizes the protection of its intellectual property.
Introduction to Cam Follower Technology: The document provides a comprehensive overview of cam followers, yoke rollers, and track rollers, highlighting their differences from standard bearings. It emphasizes the need for a heavier outer ring to minimize deformation while balancing dynamic capacity.
Specifications and Load Capacities: The document details specifications for various series of cam followers, including dimensions, clamping force, and recommended shaft diameters. It outlines load limits and track capacities, emphasizing the importance of considering outer ring deformation, track capacity, and stud bending stress in evaluating service life and load limits.
Capacity and Load Limits: Cam followers' capacity is influenced by static and dynamic capacities, outer ring deformation, and track capacity. The document advises that operating loads should not exceed the lower of track capacity or 50% of dynamic capacity.
Track Capacity and Stress Calculations: Track capacity is related to track hardness, with adjustments needed for different hardness values. The document provides equations for calculating bending and shear stresses in cam follower studs and yoke roller pins, emphasizing the importance of proper mounting to minimize stress.
Fatigue Life and Speed Limits: Fatigue life is a statistical measure of bearing life, with equations provided for calculating rating life based on dynamic capacity and equivalent radial load. Speed limits are primarily determined by bearing size and design, with recommendations to avoid exceeding these limits to prevent premature failure.
Additional Features: The document mentions the availability of eccentric cam followers for height adjustments and the use of sockets for hex wrenches to improve grip in certain applications.
Innovation and Quality: RBC emphasizes its long-standing history of producing high-quality bearings in the USA since 1919. The company is dedicated to innovation and offers engineering design assistance for integrated assemblies and other specialized applications.
Legal and Contact Information: The document includes a disclaimer about the informational nature of the content and advises contacting RBC Bearings for detailed application-specific information. It also notes that some products may be covered by patents.
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RBC Roller , HexLube , CamCentric ® Cam Followers A wide array of products including patented RBC Roller® cylindrical roller and needle roller cam followers - both stud and yoke styles.

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RBC Bearings Incorporated (RBC Bearings, RBC) has had a long tradition of innovation, commitment, and quality since the company was founded in 1919. Today, RBC Bearings has grown into a world-class manufacturer of standard and custom-engineered bearings and related products, with a product focus on research, testing, and development of the best product for specific applications. What We Manufacture RBC Bearings, with facilities throughout North America and Europe, provides bearings and precision products for applications in the construction, mining, material handling, transportation and off-highway...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 4-5 Cam Follower Selection Guide ^ ** Mast Guides and Carriage Rollers Chain Sheaves and Toothless Sprockets Airframe Track Rollers and Needle Bearings Series NBC, NBE, NBK, NBF, NBL Technical Section RBC Cam Follower Interchange Tables Custom Designed Cam Followers

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CAM FOLLOWER SELECTION RBC Cam Followers are presented in five groups: Needle Roller Cam Followers; Caged Roller Followers; RBC Roller® Long Life Cam Followers; Material Handling Rollers and Sheaves; and Airframe Track Rollers and Needle Bearings. RBC also produces a wide range of custom designed cam followers and track rollers. Designers and users with unusual application requirements should contact RBC to discuss custom designed cam followers. Savings at Every Turn! RBC Bearings produces the most innovative line of cam followers in the industry. The entire line is made from bearing quality...

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Cam Follower Selection Guide Application Requirements applications and provides for flow-through lubrication. Caged roller followers normally mount directly on a hardened and ground pin. RBC offers a line of Precision Ground Inner Rings (page 28) to simplify application of caged roller followers. More information on shaft and mounting considerations is provided in part 5.4 of the technical section (page 45). Material Handling Rollers and Sheaves RBC offers a wide range of rollers and sheaves specifically designed for material handling applications—lifting, conveying, and power transmission. All...

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RBC ROLLER®Stud and Yoke Type he RBC Roller® was developed for customers needing a high degree of assurance of long cam follower life. It can be used to great advantage in conveyors, automotive transfer lines or process industries—food, beverage, plastics, glass and others. The RBC Roller® is also attractive for defense applications, where system reliability and maintainability are primary design goals. The internal design and construction differ from typical needle bearing, ball bearing, and tapered roller bearing cam followers. The RBC Roller® design is unique and is covered by Two paths of...

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FEATURED PRODUCTThe RBC ROLLER® Cam Follower Two Rows of Cylindrical Rollers Center Thrust Ring Increased Life: large diameter, end-guided rollers yield maximum capacity and increased fatigue life, accommodate thrust loading more effectively, and provide higher limiting speeds. ^Patent No. 5531137 Large Grease Storage Cavity Maintenance-Free: Large grease storage cavity and true contacting lip seals provide superior contaminant exclusion and lubricant retention for maintenance-free operation. ✓ mes longer than standard cam followers —Saves replacement costs —Saves downtime costs ✓ Maintenance-Free...

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RBC Roller®Long Life Cam Followers Series RBC PART NUMBER To specify RBC Roller® with lubrication holes, add OH suffix (example: RBC 1 1/2 OH). Seals can be removed for flow-through lubrication. To specify RBC Roller® without seals, add NS suffix (example: RBC 4 NS). To specify RBC Roller® with crowned outer ring, add C prefix (example: CRBC 2 1/2). Refer to page 16 for crown radius.

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Excessive clamping torque may cause shoulder K to dig into housing. [1 1/16 inch for sizes RBC 5 and larger. SI Torque may be doubled for completely dry threads. Bearing Static Capacity provided for comparison only.

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RBC Roller®Long Life Yoke Rollers Series RBY PART NUMBER To specify RBC Roller® with lubrication holes, add OH suffix (example: RBY 1 3/4 OH). Seals can be removed for flow-through lubrication. To specify RBC Roller® without seals, add NS suffix (example: RBY 3 1/2 NS). To specify RBC Roller® with crowned outer ring, add C prefix (example: CRBY 1 7/8). Refer to page 24 for crown radius.

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RBC Roller® Long Life Yoke Rollers ^ Bearing Static Capacity provided for comparison only.

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HexLube Universal Cam FollowerRelubricate through head! BC Bearings offers the new HexLube® Universal line of cam followers, designed with a unique lubricating feature. The RBC HexLube® Universal Cam Follower allows for relubrication through the hexagonal head of the cam follower, making relubrication in tight spots possible. In addition, the universal design of the RBC HexLube® Cam Follower can eliminate the need to stock both screwdriver slot and unsealed cam followers. RBC expects that most customers can reduce their inventory on stud type cam followers by 50% using this new universal line....

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HexLube®The Universal Cam Follower Line by RBC BC developed the Universal Cam Follower product line to replace standard cam followers, and delivered two obvious benefits. First, it is possible to relubricate the hex head cam follower through the head. The hex head feature is the preferred mounting method for stud-type cam followers, and now it can be relubricated in tight spots or when stud access is restricted. Second, the HexLube® can eliminate the need to stock both screwdriver slot and unsealed cam followers. Your inventory can be reduced by about 50%! RBC looked at the cam follower market...

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Cam Followers Standard Stud with Glide-A-Seal® without seal

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HexLube® Universal Cam FollowersStandard Stud Relubricate through Hex Head r5 Sizes S 16 through S 22 and S 16 L through S 22 L have a 1/8" hole at the flange end only. [5 Sizes S 16 LW through S 22 LW cannot be relubricated. 3 Torque may be doubled for completely dry threads. [5 Bearing Static Capacity provided for comparison only. [6 HexLube® Cam Followers can be regreased through the hex head using a Lincoln #5803 or Alemite #B6783 needle nozzle adapter.

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.