Whois & Analysis for rexnord.com

The Rexnord Corporation is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

It was incorporated in 1892 as the Chain Belt Company.

The company makes bearings and other products.

It enjoyed "$67.5 million in profit and $1.9 billion in sales" in 2016.

A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts.

The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts.

Most bearings facilitate the desired motion by minimizing friction.

Bearings are classified broadly according to the type of operation, the motions allowed, or to the directions of the loads (forces) applied to the parts.

A coupling is a device used to connect two shafts together at their ends for the purpose of transmitting power.

Couplings do not normally allow disconnection of shafts during operation, however there are torque limiting couplings which can slip or disconnect when some torque limit is exceeded.

A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.

Geared devices can change the speed, torque, and direction of a power source.

Gears almost always produce a change in torque, creating a mechanical advantage, through their gear ratio, and thus may be considered a simple machine.

The teeth on the two meshing gears all have the same shape.

Two or more meshing gears, working in a sequence, are called a gear train or a transmission.

A gear can mesh with a linear toothed part, called a rack, thereby producing translation instead of rotation.

The ampere (SI unit symbol: A, dimension symbol: I), often shortened to "amp", is a unit of electric current.

In the International System of Units (SI) the ampere is one of the seven SI base units.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.