Device for supporting a shaft rotating with axial thrust jointly with another shaft alongside and parallel, the first shaft being longer than the second, characterized by the fact that the said second shaft is supported by two pluralities of thrust bearings inserted between the collars of two series of bushes, said bushes being supplied with radial collars, one inner series being mounted radially firm but axially solidable on said second shaft and the other series of external bushes being mounte...

The rockers are pivotally mounted in the middle on a pair of rollers and a pin so as to move tangentially of the shaft collar within the annular groove. The supporting bars are formed with one protuberance on one side and a pair of like protuberances on the opposite side so as to have a three point bearing on the rollers. The thrust bearing is thus able to avoid self-locking when deflected during operation.

A thrust mount construction for transmitting thrust developed in an engine to an airframe structural member. A thrust boss on the engine cooperates with a thrust bracket and transmits the thrust thereto. The thrust bracket in turn transmits the thrust to the airframe structural member.

A thrust reverser comprises a cylindrical casing having an apertured portion; a plurality of thrust reverser members which are mounted within the casing and are movable between a thrust reversal position, in which they block the casing to fluid flow therethrough and force the fluid to pass out through the said apertured portion, and a forward thrust position in which they permit the fluid to flow through the casing but block a part only of the apertured portion; a plurality of additional members...

A thrust bearing having a plurality of radially extending lubrication grooves formed on the bearing face thereof, and shallow, radially extending relief sections formed on the other face thereof, directly opposite and wider than the lubrication grooves.

The propulsion device or thruster is mounted on the balance beam so that the force it produces is normal to the plane of the beam and pivot line of the suspension system. The force will cause the beam to rotate about the pivot line of the crossed flexures, producing an electrical output which is proportional to the impulse produced during the thrust pulse. The time rate of change of the electrical output is proportional to the instantaneous thrust.

A fan air thrust reverser for a high by-pass ratio turbofan aircraft engine wherein the fan air exit duct wall is constructed as a thin wall or single thickness panel to achieve a low boat-tail angle nacelle and the reverser assembly comprises a circumferential series of plug type doors inwardly retractable from the duct wall for forming transverse openings through which the exhaust flow can be directed for thrust reversal, provided that thrust reverser cascade panels, normally stowed upstream o...

A method of determining the axial thrust on a thrust bearing assembly having a fixed and a rotating component in which a lubricant is being forced between the mated faces of the respective components and where zones of pressure are built up during operation, comprising monitoring the pressure of the lubricant between the mated faces. The invention also provides for determining the axial thrust by measuring the pressure differential of the lubricant between the mated faces or as it enters therebe...

A fluid thrust bearing has opposed surfaces, preferably normal to the rotational axis of, respectively, a thrust member of the rotary element of the bearing and a bearing pad fixed preferably resiliently, to the fixed bearing structure and supplied with pressurised fluid emerging through feed holes into a bearing space between the opposed surfaces. The leakage from the bearing space is collected in a chamber surrounding the bearing and pressure is caused to build up in this chamber due to an ori...

A thurst bearing insert positioned in a measuring chamber having an arcuate slot thereon adapted to receive and guide the thrust roller of a nutating disc when the disc is nutated by fluid passing through the meter. This invention relates to fluid meters and in particular to improvements in thrust bearings in meters utilizing a nutating disc for measuring the flow of fluid through the metering chamber. Fluid meters which utilize a nutating disc to measure the flow of fluid through the metering c...