Timken Ap Bearings Industrial Applications

Decades later, Timken is a leader in the friction management and power transmission industries and continues to lead in advancing bear- ing technology through continuous innovation and development. In addition to railroad applications, AP bearings are successfully used in many types of industrial applications.

A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts. The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts. Most bearings facilitate the desired motion by minimizing friction. Bearings are classified broadly according to the type of operation, the motions allowed, or to the directions of the loads (forces) applied to the parts.