Single Row Cylindrical Roller Bearings are separable radial bearings, except for the full complement cylindrical roller bearings where several variations are not separable due to their internal design features.

Due to the possibility of fitting the Outer, Inner or other loose parts individually the bearing mounting becomes easier and simpler even for volume assembly mounting.

For ther more, this enables the use of tight fits where appropriate for both Outer and Inner rings. This is of advantage in applications where vibrations or shock loads occur. For Single Row Cylindrical Roller bearings the radial loads and speed ratings are relatively higher when compared to other roller bearings.

Depending on their particular design the single row cylindrical roller bearings are ideal non - locating radially loaded bearings,although several design variations will also accept limited amounts of axial loading in one or both directions.

In the case of bearing arrangements with limited available space (i.e. gear boxes) the single row cylindrical roller bearings N-type and NU-type may be used without their respective outer or inner rings, namely. RNtype and RNU-type bearings, respectively. These bearing design types allow the rolling elements to run directly onto the adjacent contacting surface of either the housing or shaft. In these bearing arrangements the adjacent contacting surface parts must be designed as for bearing raceways (i.e. hardened and ground etc).