Product Features
Twiflex link clutches can be used as a simple, effective, speed limiting brake to launch lifeboats or restrain the fall of elevators or automatic doors.
Special features for engine and electric motor drives:
- Load free starting prolongs life of motor switch gear and reduces starting currents, aids engine starting in cold weather.
- Peak torques can be utilised to accelerate heavy inertia machinery, permitting use of smaller, less costly squirrel cage motors or less powerful engines, especially where speed increasing drives are involved.
- Misalignment can be accommodated, blind assembly is possible and installation is simplified.
- Overload protection prevents engine stalling, motor overheating, limits vibratory torques and stresses due to sudden jams.
- Engaging speed can be above engine idling speed to permit automatic throttle control.
- Complete disconnection when stationary. Dual or stand-by drives can be engaged or disengaged automatically.
- Motors and engines cannot be driven in reverse by machines such as large centrifugal pumps stopping with a full discharge head of water.
- Flange type hubs facilitate direct mounting to engine flywheels to provide compact installation with minimum axial space.
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