Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Torque transmitted via flexible element – Nonmetallic element
Patent
1997-10-21
2000-02-01
Lillis, Eileen D
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Torque transmitted via flexible element
Nonmetallic element
464154, 464901, F16D 354
Patent
active
06019684&
ABSTRACT:
A flexible coupling having hubs secured to aligned shafts and connected to one another through the use of a flexible belt surrounding the hubs is improved by forming axial and circumferential grooves on the exterior surface of the belt, each circumferential groove lying transverse to and opening into an axial groove. A cooperating metal retainer band has respective pins formed on its interior surface for insertion into the axial grooves and rotation into the circumferential grooves, thereby fixing the retainer band in position with respect to the flexible belt and coupling. Retention of the retainer band pin within the circumferential groove is insured by displacing the center line of the axial groove from a plane perpendicularly bisecting an underlying projection of the flexible belt and by lengthening the circumferential groove.
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