A Kingsbury, or pivot shoe type thrust bearing, can bear much greater loads per square inch of working surface than can parallel surface bearings because provisions are made in the Kingsbury bearing __________.

Correct Answer: Option D — for the shoes to tilt slightly, thereby allowing the formation of a wedge shaped oil film under a thrust load

Kingsbury pivot shoes tilt slightly on leveling plates under rotational load, forming a converging wedge-shaped hydrodynamic oil film that separates metal surfaces and supports vastly higher unit loads than flat, parallel surface bearings.