Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Torque transmitted via flexible element – Plural circumferentially spaced elements
Patent
1988-07-28
1990-04-17
Stodola, Daniel P.
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Torque transmitted via flexible element
Plural circumferentially spaced elements
464 87, F16D 358
Patent
active
049176536
ABSTRACT:
An elastomeric coupling is disclosed for rotatably connecting the ends of a pair of substantially inline rotatable shafts. The coupling includes a pair of hubs connected to the ends of the associated shafts for rotation therewith. The hubs are formed having a plurality of radially oriented and longitudinally extending passageways. The hubs are located in tandem with the passageways of one hub substantially aligned with the passageways in the other hub to form a plurality of pairs of substantially aligned passageways in the adjacently located hubs. A plurality of elongated, flexible elastomeric members are fitted within the pairs of adjacently aligned hub passageways to operatively and drivingly connect the hubs to one another. The arrangement is such that the elastomeric members transmit the rotation of one of the hubs, imparted by the rotation of its associated shaft, to the other hub and, thereby, to the other shaft associated with the other hub.
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