GAM Gear announces the release of the 2013 GAM catalog. For the first time ever, all of GAM’s product groups can be found in a single 102 page comprehensive catalog. An easy to use product selection guide helps users find the right product based on technical specification, configuration, or feature. New product additions to catalog […]
Couplings
Sterling Instrument’s couplings allows for large misalignments
Sterling Instrument has unveiled a new series of inch couplings with a special lattice design that allows for huge radial, axial and angular misalignments, while delivering high torque loads with zero backlash. Offered in 35 models — identified as Series S50CLM to Series S50SCLP— these inch couplings offer angular offset of up to 7° and […]
Altra Couplings Brands to Exhibit at the 2012 Turbomachinery Symposium
Altra Industrial Motion brands Ameridrives Couplings, TB Wood’s and Bibby Turboflex, will be showcasing their latest product lines in booth 1221 at this year’s Turbomachinery Symposium in Houston, Texas. Visitors will be able to learn about Altra Couplings broad range of products that can be applied to improve efficiency, productivity and safety in all types […]
Beckhoff’s EtherCAT coupler and EtherCAT junction optimize productivity
Beckhoff Automation’s EK1101-0080 EtherCAT coupler and EK1122-0080 EtherCAT junction with Fast Hot Connect provide a fast solution for coupling and decoupling of EtherCAT devices during operation, effectively reducing connection time to one second to optimize productivity. An EtherCAT characteristic, Hot Connect is used to alter topologies through direct coupling or decoupling during operation. For instance, […]
Reli-a-Flex Shaft Couplings offers long life, low kinematic error
Reliance Mechatronics launched a flexible shaft coupling that offers high torsional stiffness, low bearing load, long service life and low kinematic error. The Reli-a-Flex coupling achieves high torsional stiffness by placing the beams radially around the coupling. Unlike other coupling with spiral pattern beams, the radial beams support the drive loads in compression. The center […]
How to size and select bellows couplings for motion applications
Electrodeposited bellows couplings are commonly used in motion-control applications requiring precision but also having shaft misalignment. If your application fits this description, it’s key to understand the parameters that dictate the optimum bellows coupling for a given axis. Here are a few of the key considerations for selecting a bellows coupling. 1. Torque Determine the […]
Zero-Max CD Couplings deliver high performance design materials
Zero-Max (www.zeromax.com) has expanded its CD Coupling portfolio with the addition of the Series A1C high performance CD couplings, which combine high performance design materials, features and precision. Ensuring reliable operation, the all-new CD A1C couplings feature high dynamic load capacity and high torsional stiffness, making them ideal for use even in the most demanding […]
What are Flexible Couplings? Summary for Motion Engineers
Couplings join together two shafts as a way of transmitting power from one to the other. It is part of the drivetrain which may include other power transmission components such as lead screws or ball screws, gearboxes, belts and pulleys or chains. There are two fundamental types of couplings; rigid and flexible. Rigid couplings are […]
What are bellows couplings? Technical summary for design engineers
Bellows couplings are one form of flexible coupling with twin coupling ends called hubs capping a precision-engineered corrugated tube that serves as the coupling body. Bellows couplings are known for their exceptional torsional rigidity to accurately transmit velocity, angular position, and torque. Their slight flexibility (at the corrugated bellows) serves to address limited amounts of […]
RR Fisher & Co releases R+W Safety Couplings for particle measuring systems
RR Fisher & Co. Ltd. (www.rrfisher.com.au) has announced the release of its ATEX certified R+W safety couplings for Sympatec’s (www.sympatec.com) particle measuring systems. These safety couplings offer an ATEX design with high-temperature steel plug segment. Sympatec’s particle measuring systems are specifically designed to detect particles in a nano range up to 10mm. The systems identify […]
