COMPENSATION CLUTCH Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering. SUBSTANCE: clutch has two clutch parts made up as concentrically arranged sleeves. The sleeves are provided with openings which are uniformly arranged and coincident with ports 3 and 8 in side surfaces over periphery. Each port 8 of the outer clutch are provided with two fixed axles 9 shifted in the periphery direction. The axles have one guide rollers. The distance between the axles is greater than the diameter of the roller. Port 3 of the inner clutch part is provided with fixed axles 4 having two guide rollers 5. The rollers of the clutch parts are interconnected through flexible link 11 of closed loop. The rollers of each port of the outer clutch part are enclosed by the flexible link to define a loop. The loop is then goes into the figure eight and lies on the rollers of the inner clutch part and further rounds the adjacent rollers of the inner clutch part from the side of the clutch center. EFFECT: enhanced reliability. 2 cl, 3 dwg