the amount of lubricant which is spent from this inner lubricant reservoir in a further embodiment of a pin cage according to the invention the pins of the pin cage are preferably fastened by welding or screwing one of their ends in the holes on the lower side faces of the annular disk welding of the pins having proven to be most inexpensive as a result of saving respective threads on the pins and in the holes of the annular disk further cost advantages can be obtained if the holes in the annular disk are omitted and the pins are welded flushly onto the lower side faces of the annular disk in order to achieve sufficient stability despite the omission of the outer side disks on the pin cage and at the same time an elasticity of the pin cage which is required for mounting of the rollers shortened pins are used in the pin cage according to the invention the free length of which remaining after being fastened to the annular disk corresponds to only approximately 50 to 70 of the length of the through holes in the rollers of the self aligning roller bearing the rollers are mounted on.