Overview: The Timken Service Catalog is a comprehensive guide detailing various types of ball bearings, including radial and angular contact bearings, wide inner ring bearings, housed units, and super
precision bearings. It provides specifications, applications, and features for each
bearing type.
Radial and Angular Contact Bearings: Timken offers a wide range of precision ball bearings for industrial applications, with sizes from 3 mm to 600 mm bore. These bearings are used in sectors like aircraft, construction, agriculture, and machine tools. Key features include corrosion-resistant coatings and unique seal designs, offering enhanced life in contaminated environments and suitability for high-speed operations with heavy thrust loads.
Suffixes and Bore Size: The catalog explains suffixes indicating specific bearing features, such as full ball complement (FT), Conrad type (K), and angular contact (WI). Bore sizes are coded, with the last two numbers multiplied by five indicating the bore in millimeters.
Series Overview: Bearings are categorized into series based on size and application, including Extra Small, Extra Light, Light, Medium, XLS, and Extra Large series, each designed for specific load capacities and applications.
Special Bearings: Includes bearings for specific applications like Tri-Ply Seal Disk Harrow Bearings for severe contamination, Hex Bore Bearings for easy mounting, and R-Seal Bearings for agricultural machinery.
Angular Contact Bearings: Timken provides single-row and double-row angular contact bearings for high-thrust capacity and combination loading, offering rigidity, compactness, and high capacity.
1st Flangette Unit: Pressed steel housed units for light-duty applications, featuring a clamp-type bearing with a spherical outer ring for self-alignment.
RTF-Rubber Tire Flange Housed Unit: Made from synthetic, conductive elastomer, facilitating mounting of standard cylindrical O.D. bearings and reducing noise and vibration.
Ultra Light 9300K and Extra Light 9100K Series: Designed for applications with restricted housing diameters and large shaft diameters, suitable for machine tools and electric motors.
Dimensions and Tolerances: Detailed specifications for various bearing models, including bore, outside diameter, width, and load ratings.
Mechani-Seal Ball Bearings: Designed for electric motors, offering frictionless sealing and large grease capacity.
Medium 300K and 300W Series: Capable of carrying heavier radial, thrust, and combined loads, suitable for electric motors requiring quiet operation.
Wide Type W300PP and W300KLL Series: Prepacked with long-life grease, suitable for applications requiring quiet operation.
Design Features: Emphasizes the ability to handle heavy loads and the inclusion of seals and shields for protection.
Applications: Bearings are designed for use in electric motors and other applications where noise reduction and durability are critical.
Load Ratings: Each bearing model includes static and dynamic load ratings for selecting the appropriate bearing for specific applications.
Wide Inner Ring Bearings: Focuses on locking mechanisms, applications, and design features, including setscrew locking devices and concentric collars.
Industrial Series Bearings: Designed for extremely dirty or wet conditions, featuring R-Seals and Shroud-Seals for enhanced protection and lubricant retention.
Ordering Information: Instructions for ordering bearings, specifying the bearing number followed by "+ COL".
Timken Products Catalog Overview: A detailed catalog of Timken's bearing products, focusing on various series of wide inner ring ball bearings, providing specifications, dimensions, and recommended applications.
Introduction: Ball bearing housed units are versatile components available in various types and sizes, featuring cast iron housings and designed for easy mounting on straight shafts.
Pillow Blocks: The most common type of mounted units, providing shaft support with a mounting surface parallel to the shaft axis.
Flanged Cartridges: Used when a shaft passes through a machine frame at a right angle, available in standard and heavy-duty series.
Cylindrical Cartridges: Provide shaft support where the shaft axis is perpendicular to a machined housing, suitable for standard-duty applications.
Take-Up Units: Used in applications requiring shaft adjustment and belt tightening, such as conveyors.
Installation Procedures: Timken housed units feature a self-locking collar for easy mounting of wide inner ring bearings.
SURVIVOR Series: Designed for food handling and corrosive environments, featuring a proprietary chrome coating for corrosion protection.
Ordering Information: To order SURVIVOR polymer assemblies, add the “PT” suffix to the current cast iron housed unit designations.
VAS Series: Lists various VAS
bearing units with specific dimensions and load ratings, equipped with grease fittings for lubrication.
SAS Standard Series: Describes the SAS pillow block units, rugged and designed for versatile mounting positions.
RAKH Industrial Series: Focuses on Timken pillow blocks designed for interchangeability with competitive designs.
RAKHL Expansion Series: Designed to accommodate axial shaft expansion due to temperature changes.
YASM Medium Duty Series: Highlights the YASM pillow blocks, ideal for applications like conveyors and fans.
Specifications and Recommendations: All units have specific grease fitting sizes, with exceptions noted for certain units.
Conclusion: The document serves as a comprehensive guide for selecting and ordering Timken bearing units, providing detailed specifications and installation guidelines to ensure optimal performance in various industrial applications.
SAL Industrial Series: Designed for high-temperature applications requiring floating bearing units.
SAOL Heavy Series: Similar to the SAL series but designed for even higher temperatures and heavier applications.
DRNR Industrial Series: Rigid double pillow block designed for heavy-duty applications like fans and blowers.
RCJ, TCJ, LCJ Industrial Series: Used in applications requiring minimal machining.
Ordering Information: To order, specify the unit and shaft diameter, and whether the unit is fixed or floating.
YTU Industrial Series: Designed for applications requiring shaft adjustment and belt-tightening, such as conveyors.
VTU Standard Series: Similar applications as the YTU series, with self-locking collars.
TTU Industrial Series: Incorporates self-aligning, B-Type, extra wide inner ring ball bearings with self-locking collars.
Idler Pulley Units: Combines a pressed-steel pulley and a Timken precision ball bearing with rubber seals.
Roller Chain Idler Sprockets: Made from sintered steel, hardened for durability.
Housed Units Replacement Chart: Details replacement bearing assembly features and part numbers for various housed units.
Specifications: Lists multiple bearing types, such as G-Relubricatable and Non-Relubricatable bearings, with specific features like spherical outer rings and double seals.
Installation Procedures: Provides a step-by-step guide for installing Timken safety end caps.
Lubrication: Emphasizes the importance of proper lubrication for bearing performance.
Safety End Caps: Designed to meet OSHA requirements and provide protection for exposed rotating shafts.
Super Precision Bearings: Information on Timken's super precision machine tool bearings, designed for high-speed applications.
Ordering Information: Provides ordering details for various kits and components.
Introduction: Catalog of Timken's super precision ball bearings, detailing various types and their specifications.
Specifications: Outlines different series of bearings, such as Ultra-Light, Extra-Light, Light, and Medium.
Performance and Standards: Timken ensures premium performance by controlling non-specified parameters.
Optimized Grades of Precision: Offers super precision (MM, MMV) and ultra precision (MMX) bearings.
Bearing Types: Describes angular-contact bearings designed for various applications.
Ball Screw Support Bearings: Designed for servo-controlled machinery, offering high stiffness and simplified installation.
Applications: Details successful applications of Timken bearings in machine tools.
Special Requirements: Addresses special requirements for high-speed, grease-lubricated spindles.
Conclusion: The catalog serves as a comprehensive guide for selecting Timken super precision bearings.
Specifications: Lists multiple bearing models, each identified by a unique code.
Procedures and Standards: References ABMA Standards for maximum radial runout.
Recommendations: Suggestions for operating conditions and mounting fits.
Key Data from Tables: Provides detailed load ratings for each bearing model.
Specifications: Provides detailed specifications for each bearing model, including dimensions, weight, ball quantity, and load ratings.
Design Features: Designed for maximum axial rigidity, low drag torque, and control of lateral eccentricity.
Mounting Arrangements: Bearings can be mounted in duplexed pairs or multiplexed sets.
Performance Data: Includes performance data for the ball screw support series.
Key Parameters: Highlights critical parameters such as preload, axial thrust capacity, and permissible speed.
Applications: Suitable for applications requiring high precision and reliability.
Specifications: Provides technical specifications and guidelines for Timken bearings, specifically the MM-EX and MM-XWO series.
Design and Construction: Details the design and construction of the MM-EX and MM-XWO series.
Procedures and Recommendations: Consult a Timken representative for new design applications.
Key Features: Lists specific features of certain models.
Performance Parameters: Lists specific models with their bore, O.D., width, preload, and maximum RPM.
Limitations: These bearings are not intended for new design applications.