FLEXIBLE AND COMPENSATION CLUTCH Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering. SUBSTANCE: clutch has two flange clutch parts that are interconnected through pins. Stacks of bent flexible plates are secured to the pins. The clutch parts are concentric. The outer clutch part is combined and made up as hub with a flange and sleeve-like rim. The flange of the rim is rigidly coupled with the hub flange. The inner clutch part has the central ring groove and two ring projections on the outer ring surface of its flange. There are ports in the cylindrical segment of the rim. The flange of the hub of the outer clutch part, bottom of the rim, and ring projections of the flange of the inner clutch part are provided with rounded periphery grooves and pair-parallel slots that are open from the periphery. The distances between the axes of symmetry of the slots in each pair are equal. Each slot is conjugated with respective periphery groove in its middle segment. The stacks of bent plates are fitted on the pins to provided preliminary, symmetrical tension between the projections of the flange of the inner clutch part. The width of the periphery grooves on the flange of the hub of the outer clutch part and bottom of the rim is greater than the width of the periphery grooves in the ring projections of the inner clutch part. EFFECT: enhanced reliability. 8 dwg