Ball joint seat assembly

Claim 1

A BALL JOINT SEAT ASSEMBLY, COMPRISING, A STUD HAVING A CURVED SUBSTANTIALLY SEGMENTAL SPHERICAL HEAD PORTION, A COVER MEANS CENTRALLY EMBOSSED SO AS TO BE COMPLEMENTARY TO SAID CURVED HEAD PORTION, A HOUSING PORTION RECEIVING SAID STUD AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL CAVITY THEREIN THAT TERMINATES IN A REDUCED END OPENING THROUGH WHICH SAID STUD PROJECTS AWAY FROM SAID COVER MEANS, SAID COVER MEANS CARRIED BY THE HOUSING END PORTION OPPOSITE SAID REDUCED OPENING, AND A COMBINATION PRELOADING AND WEAR COMPENSATING LOW-FRICTION RESILIENT BEARING LINEAR SEAT PORTION IN SAID CAVITY BETWEEN SAID REDUCED END OPENING AND SAID COVER MEANS, SAID LINER INCLUDING AN ANNUULAR BODBY HAVING A CURVED SUBSTANTIALLY SEGMENTAL SPHERICAL INNER PERIPHERY AT ONE END ENGAGING SAID CURVED HEAD AS WELL AS AN OUTER PRIPHERY AT THE OTHER END WHICH HAS AN INITIALLY RADIALLY OUTWARDLY FLARED PERIPHERAL END PORTION PRIOR TO ASSEMBLY, AND ALSO A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT SIZED SLITS DEFINING SEGMENTS BETWEEN AND SLITS WHICH EXTEND LONGITUDINALLY WITH SAID RADIALLY OUTWARDLY FLARED PERIPHERAL END PORTION, THE FLARED OUTER PERIPHERY OF SAID END PORTION PRIOR TO COMPLETION OF JOINT ASSEMBLY EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE OF SUBSTANTIALLY 5* OUTWARDLY FROM THE OUTER PERIPHERY OF SAID ANNULAR BODY SO AS TO PROVIDE AN OUTER DIAMETER ON THE END PORTION OF THE LINER GREATER THAN THE INNER DIAMETER OF THE CYLINDRICAL CAVITY, ONE END OF THE LINEAR ADJACENT THE FLARED PERIPHERY INITIALLY EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE OF SUBSTANTIALLY 10* DOWNWARDLY AWAY FROM THE AXIS OF THE CYLINDRICAL CAVITY FROM A REFERENCE PLANE THAT IS PERPENDICULAR TO THE AXIS OF THE BEARING LINER AND CYLINDRICAL CAVITY, SAID LINER HAVING A COMPLEMENTARY TELESCOPIC FIT INTO THE CYLINDRICAL CAVITY WITH SAID OUTWARDLY FLARED PERIPHRAL END PORTION BEING FORCED THEREIN DURING ASSEMBLY, SUCH THAT INWARD PRELOAD OCCURS DUE TO DISPLACED CONFINEMENT OF THE 5* AND 10* ANGULAR PORTIONS OF SAID LINEAR END ENGAGED IN ASSEMBLY BY SAID CYLINDRICAL CAVITY OF SAID BODY PORTION AND SAID COVER MEANS RESPECTIVELY ASSEMBLED THERETO.