Detachable shaft coupling

• US 3,367,138 A
• Filed: 07/21/1966
• Issued: 02/06/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems Incorporated Fairfield NJ 07006 A Corporation O de
• Original Assignee: Robert K. Tiedeman
• Inventors: Tiedeman, Robert K.
• Application Number:
  US04/566,818
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• US Class Current: 464/158
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 1/101 without axial retaining means rotating with the coupling
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 464/901 Rapid attachment or release

Claims

1. COUPLING MEANS FOR ESTABLISHING A READILY DISCONNECTED ROTARY DRIVE BETWEEN TWO SHAFTS COMPRISING (A) A MEMBER HAVING A RECESS FOR RECEIVING THE COACTING END OF A FIRST SHAFT, (B) MEANS FOR INTERLOCKING SAID MEMBER AND SHAFT WITHIN SAID RECESS AGAINST RELATIVE ROTATION, SAID MEMBER BEING MOVABLE ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE SHAFT, (C) MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID MEMBER WITH THE OTHER SHAFT FOR ROTATION THEREWITH AND ALSO FOR MOVEMENT ALONG ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS, (D) A DISC-LIKE RETAINER RING FOR SEATING SNUGLY ON SAID FIRST SHAFT NEAR ITS END, (E) RESILIENT MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID MEMBER AND THE COACTING END OF SAID OTHER SHAFT FOR URGING SAID MEMBER ONTO SAID FIRST SHAFT AT SAID RECESS AND INTO ABUTTING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE RETAINER RING, (F) AND MEANS FORMED ON SAID FIRST SHAFT FOR RESTRAINING BOTH SAID RETAINER RING AND MEMBER AT A PREDETERMINED POSITION THEREON AGAINST THE BIAS OF SAID RESILIENT MEANS FOR DEFINING THE ASSEMBLED POSITION OF THE COUPLING.