faces a circular oil pocket 43 thereby allowing the roll shell to rotate and the oil pocket 43 is supplied with pressurized oil through a passage 44 leading from the lateral passage 45 the lateral shoe 17 encounters an axial force in the opposite direction from a pad 8 stationarily secured to the shaft the pad 8 is circular and seats in a circular pocket 46 on the lateral shoe the circular pocket 46 is pressurized through an oil passage 47 which communicates with the chamber 17a fed by the passage 45 thus the lateral pad 17 transmits a stabilizing axial force to the roll shell from the shaft the lateral pad is supported axially to the left in fig5 by the oil in the pocket 46 and the shoe 17 transmits this supporting force via the pocket 43 to the ring 42 on the roll shell 10 thus the lateral pads 17 provide not only a horizontal stabilizing force in the crossaxis direction as may be viewed in fig4 but also a horizontal stabilizing force in the axial direction as viewed in fig5 each of the lateral pads is of the same construction and operates the same so that only the details.