Spherical plain bearings have an inner ring with a sphered convex outside surface and an outer ring with a correspondingly sphered out concave inside surface. The design makes them particularly suitable for bearing arrangements where alignment movements between shaft and housing have to be accommodated, or where oscillating or recurrent tilting or slewing movements must be permitted at relatively slow sliding speeds.

Radial spherical plain bearings
1 Maintenance Type:
GE. E, GE. ES, GE. ES-2RS, GEG. E, GEG. ES, GEG. ES-2RS, GEEW. ES, GEEM. ES-2RS, GEF. ES, GE. XS/K, GEZ. ES, GEZ. ES-2RS, GEWZ. ES, GEW. ZES-2RS, GEGZ. ES, GEGZ. ES-2RS, GEC. XS, GEBK. S, GEFZ. S.
2 Maintenance-free Type:
GE. C, GEG. C, GEFZ. C, GE. ET-2RS, GE. XT-2RS, GEG. ET-2RS, GEG. XT-2RS, GEG. ET-2RS, GEG. XT-2RS, GEZ. ET-2RS, GEH. XT, GEH. XT-2RS, GEC. XT, GEH. HC, GEH. HT series.

Angular contact spherical plain bearings
GAC. S, GAC. T, GACZ. S series...
Spherical plain thrust bearings.
GX. S, GX. T series.
Rod end
SI^E, SI^ES, SA^E, SA^ES, SIBP^S, SABP^S, SIZP^S, SAZP^S, SIZJ^, SAZJ^, SI^C, SI^ET-2RS, SA^C, SA^ET-2RS, SIJK^C, SAJK^C, SK^E, SK^ES, SF^ES, SIR^ES, SIGEW^ES series.
Ball joint rod ends.
SQ-RS, SQZ-RS, SQD series.

Spherical plain bearings are used in railway engineering, railway station construction, bridge building, construction machinery, hydraulic steel structures, or roof designs. Others are used in power generation, oil field exploration, mining and aggregate processing, wind turbines, gear drives, or rolling mills.