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Aug. ,7, 1945: ‘ L. E.

LOONEY 2,380,980 ,
BEARING CUP FULLER

Filed July 28-, 1944

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Patented Aug. .7, 1945
2380.980

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE’


2,380,980
BEARING CUP PULLER
Leo E. Looney, Revere, Mass.
Application July 28, 1944, Serial No. 547,093
v1 Claim. (Cl. 29-263)
(Granted under the act of March 3, 1883, as
amended April 30, 1928; 370 0. G. 757)
The invention described herein may be manu Body member I has its ?anged collar ll‘ pro
factured and used by or for the Government for vided with a substantially flat bottom face l2 at
governmental purposes,_ without the payment to right angles to the vertical axis thereof and is
me of any royalty thereon. - formed to have an internal recess l3 concentric
This invention relates to a bearing cup puller with an opening l4 whereby said body is provided
for roller or ball-bearing cups and is directed‘ with an inverted opening U-shaped in cross‘
more particularly to the‘ provision of means section.
‘ whereby there is facilitated the removal of ring The screw-jack member 2 shown in Fig. 3 may
like members such as are commonly press-?tted vary in. size and shape but preferably consists of
into some housing, like a bearing cup. ‘ a bolt-like member having a hex or similar tool
According to prior practice, it has been both engaging head 2|, .more or less reduced neck
di?icult and time-consuming to remove such portion 22, an intermediate threaded portion 23,
members and it is therefore an object of this in ' a shank portion 24 while its lower end portion 25
vention to provide a simple and effective puller preferably tapers downwardly as shown.
for extracting such tightly-?tting ring-like units The extractor assembly 4 will now be described.
from such housings. Accordingly the principal‘ It will be understood that said member 4 is
object of this invention is to provide a bearing preferably formed of metal such as steel and con
cup puller for ei?ciently removing the cups of sists of a plurality suchas-four right angle sec
‘roller or ball—bearings which have been pressed - tors 4|. Said sectors will form an inverted coni
into housings. 20 cal frustum and each will-also have what may be
The speci?c nature of the invention as well as termed a radial rib 42, the upper faces of said
other objects and advantages thereof will clearly - ' ribs being inclined as at 43. The degree of said
appear from a description of a preferred embodi angle being preferably at approximately 60° to
ment as shown in the accompanying drawing in the ‘axis of extractor member 4. The bottom
which: ' ' 25 faces ofsaid ribs 42 are relativelyv perpendicular
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the device to the axis of a threaded hole 46 provided in
of the invention with parts in section for clear each of‘ said sectors‘ but preferably said faces
ness. have a slight bevel on their outer edges as shown
Fig. 2 is a. sectional view on the line 2-2 of in Fig. 6. The conical axial opening 45 extends
Fig. 1. - vthrough the center of the extractor as a down
Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the screw wardly extending taper which matches the taper
jack member. 25 on shank part 24. . '
Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the body As stated, each of such sectors 4| is provided
member. '_ with a threaded hole 46 adapted to receive the
Fig. 5 is a top-plan view of ‘what is vshown in screws 5. _ The screws will normally have a slotted
Fig. 4. ' head _5| with the shanks 52 thereof extending
Fig. 6 is an elevational view of one of the sec through said holesv l5 and as above mentioned’
tors of the extractor assembly. their lower ends 53 in threaded engagement with.
Referring now to the drawing more in detail, the extractor sectors; .
the invention will be described with respect to the 40 Since the shanks 52 are of greater length than
preferred embodiment thereof. . the holes I 5 as shown in Fig. 1 andsince the holes
In Fig. 1 there is shown in assembled relation l5 are of greater diameter at their lower end por
, the bearing-cup puller oi’ the invention including tions, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, so as to permit
what may be called a body member I having a ' lateral movement of the screws 5 as well as axial
screw-jack member 2 threaded rotatably therein, 45 movement as the sector members 4 are expanded,
and a free handle which may take various forms there is provided the desirable play during oper
but preferably consists of a rod and a threaded ation of the device of the invention. .The screw~
end .portion 3| which is in engagement with a jack member 2 to begin with is “so adjusted in‘the
radial threaded hole IS in an enlarged ?anged body that the tapered portion 25 does not engage
like lower portion ll of said body. 50 extractor 4. ,. The puller is then aligned with the
Said body member I is provided with a plu recess 6| of the bearing housing 6 and the ex
rality of vertical openings or axial holes l5, each tractor 4 is pushed throughbearing cup 1 to the
of which is adapted to receive a screw 5, said bottom 'of the recess 6i. '
screws having their lower ends threaded as indi With the extractor 4 held ?rmly in this posi
cated in i3. ' _ . tion, the screw jack 2 is'turned down till its taper
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25 engages the sectors 4| of the extractor 4. forc around said central portion arranged for hearing
ing them outwardly and causing the ribs 42 of engagement with said housing, a screw-jack
extractor-sectors‘ H to catch under an inwardly' member threaded into said axial opening and
projecting edge 62 of the bearing cup ‘I. The having a tapered lower end portion which nor
bearing puller can then be held by the handle I mally projects below said body member, an ex
while the screw jack 2. is screwed down by means pansible extractor assembly comprising a plural
of a. wrench, all of which forces the extractor ribs ity of relatively movable sectors spaced apart to
42 outwardly under the bearing cup ‘I and there provide an axial opening extending entirely
by exerts a wedging action between cup‘ and therethrough which is in axial alignment with
housing, thus forcing the bearing cup ‘I upwardly. 10 said axial opening in the body member, said sec
Until the screw jack 2 has been turned down to tors ‘being so formed that the said opening in the
the point where the shank 24 contacts the bottom extractor assembly is tapered similarly to said
of the recess Si in the housing 6, the applied force lower end portion of the screw-jack member,
is exerted wholly in a radial direction, but as seen each of said sectors also being provided with a
as the bottom of the screw shank 24 contacts the 15 threaded hole in its upper side, and screw mem
housing, any further application of torque to the bers disposed in said other openings of the body
screw jack 2 results in both an outward thrust of member having their upper end portions project
the extractor toes 42 and an upward lift of the ing above the'body and being of a diameter larger -
extractor from the interengagement of thread of thanithe diameter of said other openings and
opening l4 in the body I and the thread 23 on the 20 having their lower end portions engaged in said
screw jack 2, thereby pulling the bearing cup 1 threaded holes of the sectors and adapted to sup
- upward and out of the housing 6. port the same within the housing, the lower end
. What is claimed is: - portions of said other openings in the body mem
The device of the class described arranged to ber being of greater diameter than their upper
extract a bearing cup from a housing comprising 25 end portions whereby as the screw-jack member
in combination, a body member having a central expands the said sectors of the extractor assem
portion provided with an axial opening there bly, the supporting screw members are permitted
through and other openings therein parallel to to move laterally relative to the body member.
the axis of said axial opening, said body member
including an enlarged ?ange-like lower portion LEO E. DOONEY.

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