Lock for the inner race of self-aligning bushing on a shaft

Claim 1

A self-aligning bushing setup comprising a shaft, an inner race having a position surrounding one end of the shaft, the inner race having a spherical type outer surface and having an inner and an outer end relative to the shaft as a whole longitudinally speaking, an outer race having a spherical type inner surface mating with the spherical type outer surface of the inner race to enable relative movement as between inner and outer race, an end plate across the outer end of the inner race and having an inner end surface mating with an outer end surface of that inner race, said respective mating end surfaces preventing relative rotation between the end plate and the inner race by at least part of the mating surfaces of the end plate and the inner race having an oblique angle with respect to the axis of the shaft and being assymetrical composed to any figure of rotation developed symmetrically about the axis of rotation of the shaft, means for positively affixing the end plate to the shaft, and means to prevent the inner race from moving axially out of the effective mating position with the end plate.