Developing Flexible Couplings Standards

摘要

Principal Engineer (Retired), The Falk Corporation Chairman, AGMA Flexible Coupling Committee. Flexible couplings? When or how did they become a type of gear drive or a component thereof and result in a committee within AGMA? Why would they even be a part of AGMA? Well I don't know the exact answer, but many gear drives would not be turning without one of these flexible couplings on the input shaft, nor would the power be transmitted to the end application without one. So it makes some sense to be a part of AGMA. Many gear drive manufacturers also manufactured flexible couplings or used these products manufactured by others. There seemed to be a need for standardization of basic items such as bore-to-shaft fits. Creating such standards allowed for coupling manufacturers and power transmission distributors to stock many different couplings in the "rough stock bore" condition (reducing their inventory) and yet be able to provide consistent and interchangeable components.