SAFETY CLUTCH Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F16D43/20 F16D7/02 F16D1/04 

FIELD: machine building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the machine building industry and can be used for the transfer of rotational movement from a drive shaft to a driven shaft with the simultaneous protection of mechanisms against overloads exceeding the design ones. A clutch includes a housing connected to ends of the drive and driven shafts. In the left half of the clutch housing on the outer side there is a groove of a rectangular shape, and four through-type mutually perpendicular slots are made in it. In the slots there freely installed by means of clamping bolts with an eccentricity are limit stops in the form of round plates, each of which is connected at both sides by means of springs to the housing of the left half. In the right half there arranged on the drive shaft is a hub with a groove of a rectangular shape, in which there freely mounted on shafts are rollers that are in contact with limit stops of the left half of the clutch.

EFFECT: simpler design of the safety clutch.

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