Wide Outer Ring
Sealmaster has the industry’s widest outer ring. The black oxided outer ring is 20 to 30% wider than industry standard outer rings. This feature results in increased grease capacity, and room for improved sealing options. A wider outer ring has increased surface area contact with the housing to better absorb shock load.
Lock Pin and Dimple
The Sealmaster exclusive locking pin and dimple system provides a direct lubricant path into the bearing cavity & ball path instead of around a lubrication groove. The pin also prevents outer ring rotation (sometimes referred to as “creep”), and allows ±2° static misalignment of the bearing insert.
Multiple Sealing Options
Felt Seal with Flinger
The standard felt seal provides a tight labyrinth seal which retains lubrication and acts as a filter to exclude contamination. The external stamping is a flinger which shields the felt from large contaminants and directs them away from the sealing surface. The design operates with less drag and less heat generation than rubber contact seals.
Single Lip Contact Seal
Single Lip Contact Seal consists of a nitrile rubber washer in metal shroud to shield the lip from large contaminants. The seal is designed to balance drag and protection in wet and dry environments. This can be specified by adding the suffix C to the part number.
Multiple Locking Methods
Setscrew Locking
120° spaced, balanced three point contact minimizes inner ring distortion vibration, reduces noise, and improves reliability. Precision manufactured diamond faceted setscrews contribute to improved clamping and resistance to back out.
Skwezloc® Concentric Locking Collar
SKWEZLOC is a concentric locking collar clamp design that results in nearperfect concentricity of the shaft to bearing bore and maintains near perfect ball path roundness, while reducing fretting corrosion. This design eliminates the shaft damage of setscrew locking, and minimizes bearing induced vibration for smoother quieter operation. The collar has a TORX head cap screw that outlasts stripping 12 times longer than hex head cap screws.
Zone Hardened Inner Race
Sealmaster incorporates a unique heat treat process that hardens the inner race only where it is needed…under the ball path. The black oxided zone hardened inner race results in improved lock reliability as a result of less distortion at the setscrew location and improved thread conformity resulting in improved clamping and resistance to setscrew back-out
Land Riding Retainer
The Sealmaster unique land riding metal retainer design provides superior pocket clearance that allows for 360° grease circulation around the rolling elements resulting in better retained and utilized lubrication. The land riding design of the retainer minimizes wear on both Ball and retainer, while maximizing stability, which is especially important in applications involving vibration, shock loading or high operating speeds.
Solid Base
Solid bases are standard on Sealmaster Gold ball bearing pillow blocks. The solid base provides improved stability, resistance to shock and vibration and prevents frame buckling under base compared to semi-solid and hollow mounting bases.
Housing Fit
All bearings are assembled with a controlled housing fit between the bearing outer ring and housing bore. This fit allows the bearing to properly self-align in common industrial applications. Special fits are available based on your specific application need.
Nameplate
Metal nameplate riveted to the housing allows for easy identification even after years of operation.
Sealmaster Gold Mounted Ball Bearing Options
Bearings are typically selected using L10 fatigue life calculations based on ideal operating conditions. However, most bearing problems are not fatigue related, but occur due to contamination, lubrication starvation, or other environmental issues. As a result, our engineers have developed custom solutions to meet the varying severity, operating parameters and maintenance regularity, such as Reduced Maintenance and Custom Select.
Reduced Maintenance “RM”
Sealmaster Reduced Maintenance bearings are the result of a patented Tapered Lands bearing race profile which means that critical lubricant is circulated more efficiently, while requiring no regular service intervals. The bearing are supplied from the factory with a plug instead of a lubrication fitting.
The outer land surface in a conventional bearing is parallel to the axis of the inner ring. The Tapered Lands surface is tapered in a radial direction toward the bearing race. This subtle yet crucial design change allows lubricant to more easily flow back to the raceway. With improved bearing lubricant circulation comes significantly longer bearing service life. This improved circulation and service life comes without any reductions in bearing radial or thrust capacities.
* For bearings that are maintained and relubricated on a regular basis, there is no significant difference in expected service life.
Custom Capabilities
Our Application Engineers will design a bearing based on your unique application parameters, utilizing a variety of existing components or special components. By combining your equipment knowledge and our Application Engineers bearing expertise, a product solution can be designed to maximize bearing performance in your specific application.
Thousands of customers benefit from this capability every year, and now you no longer have to endure the lead time associated with these custom engineered solutions. In many cases, a higher performance product can be designed and developed specifically for your application.
