A bearing assembly usable for supporting a roll of a casting machine and a method of controlling the loading thereof

摘要

A bearing assembly for supporting a roll of a casting machine is composed of a split roller bearing (fig 2, 19) with rollers (20) guided for movement around an outwardly facing track defined by a split inner ring (21) and an inwardly facing track defined by a two-part housing (31, 24). The housing has a primary component (31) which maybe supported on a base plate (fig 79, 41) a roll stand. This primary component (31) is relieved as with recesses (32) in the base surface and by this measure the component (31) is allowed to flex and deform during use to control the load distribution. A number of recesses 32 may be present and they may preferably be seperated by a projection or tenon 40 that may or may not extend outwardly beyond the base supportive surface 26.