Have you ever opened a drawer in your desk? Or moved a sliding door? What about operating a conveyor belt in an automation line? With any of these activities, chances are you have used a linear guide ...

Essentially, a guide wheel is a ball bearing that has a special shaped outer race. The inner and outer races of ball bearings are a framework with a groove for the balls to rest in. Burke explained ...

Design refinements boost performance of self-aligning ball bushing while maintaining their error-correcting nature.

The Quick Silver line of linear guides feature a patented, four point support design for circulating ball bearings. The four-point design offers significant improvement in rigidity, high precision, ...

Linear bearings are distinguished from radial bearings by their sliding rather than rotary motion. Linear bearings are used in machine tool applications such as sliding doors, 3D printers, and ...