Timken is a global manufacturer of bearings. It was founded by Henry Timken in St. Louis, Missouri in 1899 and incorporated as The Timken Roller Bearing Axle Company. As a world-famous company, Timken provides customers with various kinds of bearing products. Besides, it is a global leader in friction management technologies and provides one of the most complete offerings of antifriction bearings in the industry.
As in the bearing area, Timken is a leading provider of all roller bearing types. The company offers cylindrical, tapered, spherical, thrust and needle roller bearings for a wide range of applications. Next is the specific introduction of these categories.
Firstly, Timken uses its 80 years of experience designing and manufacturing cylindrical roller bearings to continually advance performance across size ranges and configurations, including inch and metric and one-row, two-row and four-row designs. For example, the company produces a new series, i.e. the Timken? single row EMA series of cylindrical roller bearings, which feature a premium land-riding cage, unique internal geometries, enhance surface finishes and a compact design. All this adds up to longer life, improved uptime and reduced maintenance costs. Test results show EMA series bearings outperform both Timken-published ratings and the industry's leading high performance cylindrical design.
Secondly, the company offers the most extensive line of tapered roller bearings available anywhere in the world. This kind of bearings is uniquely designed to manage both thrust and radial loads on rotating shafts and in housings. Timken manufactures nearly 26,000 bearing combinations in single, double and four-row configurations. Tapered roller bearings consist of four interdependent components: the cone, or inner ring; the cup, or outer ring; the tapered rollers, or rolling elements; and the cage, or roller retainer. The taper angles allow the bearing to handle a combination of radial and thrust loads. The steeper the cup angle, the greater the ability of the bearing to handle thrust loads. The taper roller bearings can be future divided into many types such as the single-row, double-row, and four-row tapered roller bearings. Taking the single-row tapered roller bearings as an example, they are the most basic and widely used ones. They have positive roller alignment that ensures true rolling motion and generates a "seating force" that pushes the roller against the cone large rib. This seating force prevents the rollers from skewing off apex, thereby keeping them positively aligned and located against the cone large rib.
Thirdly, spherical bearings are designed to manage high radial loads even when misalignment, poor lubrication, contamination, extreme speeds or critical application stresses are present. While the thrust bearings are designed to manage thrust (axial) loads and provide high-shock-load resistance in a variety of applications.
Addition to the above mentioned categories, Timken also provides other similar products. All in all, whatever bearings it produces, the company guarantee the quality and performance of its products which are backed by the company's extensive expertise in design, specification and maintenance. Timken always tries its best to meet customers' requirements, and we can predict that it will be better in the future.
