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Timken Bearing Co. Makes Remarkable Growth Since 1898The tapered roller bearing weeInvented by Henry Timken in 1801.just es the automotive industry waa started to cast Its eye upon the world it was to conquer.Timken at that time wm a carriage maker In 8t Louis and carriages witnessed the flnrt practical application of tapered roller vehicles.But during the next year or so, as the future of the automobile became a certainty, Timken foresaw the necessity of tapered roller bearings in automotive vehicles.With his two sons he organized ft company to specialize in their manufacture. The accuracy ot his judgment is now corroborated by the fact that the Timken Roller Bearing company is now the largest ln-dependent manufacturer of antifriction bearings In the world.During all these years it is a significant tact that It has never been found desirable to change the fundamental principle of design—thatof tapered rollers revolving between | a tapered cup and a tapered cone.The ability of this type of bearing to carry all combinations of loads — radial load, or weight, and end-thrust, which is load coming from side or end—as well as the ease with which it is adjusted to take up wear, has made It especially adapted ! tor automobiles where speeds are j high and both radial and thrust loads extremely heavy. jMore than 400 American and Kti-ropean manufacturers of nutomo- i biles, trucks and tractors use Timken tapered roller bearings , year after year, as standard equipment, | and more than 90 percent of all f motor cars on the street today are ‘a equipped with this bearing at one or) 1 more points of hard service. t
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Canton Sunday News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Feb 11, 1923
Page 25
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OH, USA 03 Feb 2019
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