ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,677, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to COOPER ROLLER BEARINGS COMPANY LTD (Norfolk, Great Britain).
"Split roller bearing" was invented by Martin Caspall (Norfok, Great Britain) and Luke Mitchell (Norfolk, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outer ring (5) of a split roller bearing comprising: two generally semi-circular parts (15, 16) dis-engageably engageable together to form a generally circular component via a plurality of respective co-operating contact surfaces in a saw-tooth configuration; each said respective co-operating contact surface forming a facet (21, 22, 23, 24); intersections of said facets forming peak li...