A bearing designed to take a load in the direction of the axis of a shaft, especially one transmitting the thrust of a propeller shaft to the hull of a ship.
推力轴承，止推轴承
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At one time, used in USA, was a rotating speed bar with thrust bearings fitted near the uprights.
A box-like structure on the propeller shaft, the thrust bearing transfers propulsive force from the propeller shaft to the hull of the ship.
A flange on the end of the shaft shows where the thrust bearing has been removed.
Hydrodynamic lubrication has been achieved in thrust bearings using mineral oil, synthetic lubricants, gas, water, and other lubricants.
In 1905 A. G. M. Mitchell patented the thrust bearing for improved propulsion of ships.
Between the sleeve upper-end face and the rotor undersurface a thrust bearing section is configured.