Tapered Roller Bearing Cones

Tapered roller bearing cones are the bearings minus the cup or race. Combine roller bearing cones with tapered roller bearing cups to create tapered roller bearings that allow you to carry maximum combinations of radial and thrust loads simultaneously.
The inner and outer ring raceways are segments of cones and the rollers are tapered so that the conical surfaces of the raceways, and the roller axes, if projected, would all meet at a common point on the main axis of the bearing. This geometry makes the motion of the cones remain coaxial, with no sliding motion between the raceways and the OD of the rollers.
This conical geometry creates a linear contact patch which permits greater loads to be carried than with spherical (ball) bearings, which have point contact. The geometry means that the tangential speeds of the surfaces of each of the rollers are the same as their raceways along the whole length of the contact patch and no differential scrubbing occurs.