Castors

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B - Operations, Transporting

60

B

16/7

B60B 33/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1242554

A B S T R A C T O F T H E I N V E N T I O N "CASTORS" A twin-wheel castor comprises a moulded plastics body 1 and a pair of inset moulded plastics wheels 2. The body 1 has an upwardly open bore 3 to receive a mounting spindle. The wheels 2 are respectively mounted on the ends of a steel spindle 4 which is a tight interference fit in a through bore 5 in the body moulding 1, with an end chamfer 4a on the spindle providing a lead on assembly. A snap-on fixing of the wheels 2 on the ends of the spindle 4, with the wheels 2 free to rotate on the spindle 4, employs interengaging formations moulded in mounting bores 13 of the wheels 2 and formed by a rolling process on the metal spindle 4. Each such formation, both in the wheels 2 and on the spindle 4, comprises a peripheral projection in the form of an annular lip and an adjoining peripheral groove.

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