Kaydon Bearings - MT Series Small Bore Bearings
Non-geared Small Bore MT Series

Kaydon's line of small bore MT bearings improve your design and lower manufacturing costs of manipulators, articulating arms, lift-assists, and balancers. If you develop and manufacture ergonomic lift-assist devices, work positioners, and articulating arms, there's a Kaydon small bore bearing that can increase your design flexibility. It's a bolt-up bearing in popular compact sizes, and it eliminates the limitations imposed by traditional king post configurations so only one bearing is required in your assembly instead of two.

MT Small Bore Summary Information

If you develop and manufacture ergonomic lift-assist devices, work positioners, and articulating arms, there's a Kaydon bearing that can increase your design flexibility. It's a bolt-up bearing in popular compact sizes, and it eliminates the limitations imposed by traditional king post configurations so only one bearing is required in your assembly instead of two.

Engineered especially for manipulators and jib cranes, Kaydon's small bore MT Series bearings are available in bore sizes from 50mm to 170mm. This series also incorporates a sealing system designed for minimal friction and contamination exposure. This compact, pre-engineered bearing package is designed to simplify your overall design, saving weight and space.

How the small bore MT Series bearing gives you a better design for less.
Conventional bearings used in manipulators and articulating arms are complex and costly because they are usually mounted in the traditional “king post” design. Kaydon simplifies the design process with a single bearing installation that provides exceptional radial, thrust, and moment load handling, and features pre-engineered bolt holes for convenient assembly. There are fewer parts and less weight, so the bearing assembly requires less space. As shown in Figure A, the shaft itself placed a constraint on how much weight (moment load) the equipment could handle. Small Bore MT series bearings (Figure B) let you reconfigure for more efficient designs, providing even greater moment load capacities. Eliminating the solid king post-style shaft also lets you route other components, such as electrical, air, and hydraulic lines through a larger center hole, thus allowing greater design flexibility.