What is the bearing housing?

What is the bearing housing?

Bearing housings support your bearings, protect them from contaminants while keeping in lubricant, and can also house monitoring equipment. Essentially, they provide customizable mounted bearing solutions and help maximize performance, service life and cost-efficient maintenance of the incorporated bearing.

How many types of bearing housing are there?

The Different Types of Bearing Housing. Housings are available in many sizes and generally fall into five standard categories: Split Plummer (or pillow) block housings, Non-split Plummer block housings, flanged housings, take-up housings, and two-bearing housings.

What is sealed type bearing?

Bearing seals actively do double duty, preventing contaminants from reaching the inside of your parts while keeping lubricants from leaking out. Both roles can help extend the life of your bearings, but it’s crucial to find the right seals for your parts.

How does a bearing housing work?

Bearing housings and flanges hold an insert bearing in position, support the load transferred from the bearing shaft through the bearing, and are used to mount the bearing to a surface. Typically, there are two bearing rings or races that the rolling element (ball, roller, or needle roller) is guided between.

What are the two basic bearing housings?

Two-bearing housings have intrinsically aligned bearing seats, which enable rigid bearings, such as deep groove ball bearings, angular contact ball bearings and cylindrical roller bearings to be accommodated. Two-bearing housings are typically used in applications with an overhanging load.

Are you supposed to grease sealed bearings?

FOR STARTERS, note that most sealed bearings come pre-greased from the factory with a 25%-35% grease fill. However, this effectively destroys the seal’s ability to keep contaminants out of the grease; and too much grease “churns” inside the bearing, generating resistance and leading to rapid heat build-up.