Power plants – Pressure fluid source and motor – Coaxial impeller and turbine unit
Patent
1974-12-18
1976-05-11
Geoghegan, Edgar W.
Power plants
Pressure fluid source and motor
Coaxial impeller and turbine unit
60353, 60364, 60365, F16D 3306
Patent
active
039553671
ABSTRACT:
In a fluid clutch of the type comprising cooperating pump and turbine elements between which toroidal power-transmitting liquid vortices can be established, control of the clutch by an operator is effected by moving a baffle within the working chamber between a clutched position in which the vortices can be established and maintained, and a declutched position in which it is interposed in the path taken by such vortices and prevents their establishment and maintainence. The baffle is operative to produce the required de-clutching and clutching action by changing the operative volume of the clutch element in which it is mounted. In a preferred structure a radially-slotted annular baffle is mounted on a cylindrical sleeve slidable on the output shaft and moves within the turbine chamber toward and away from the pump element, the turbine vanes entering the slots in the baffle; a spring urges the sleeve and the baffle toward the clutch engaged position further from the pump element.
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Cluaran Associates Ltd.
Geoghegan Edgar W.
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