Citations:cutlass bearing


 * He noticed the shaft was not being grooved or worn by the rubber bearing, even in such an abrasive environment. The rubber bearing had, in fact, “cut less” into the shaft surface than the hardwood bearings. A year or two later, the bearing was patented by Charles Sherwood in conjunction with Lucian Q. Moffit of Akron, Ohio, who coined the term “cutless” bearing... in the 1950s, the bearing division came up with the marketing idea of stamping a sword symbol on its cutless bearing products as a form of branding. The confusion of the cutless bearing with the symbol of the cutlass was born.name-that-bearing