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Roller Ramp Clutches

Examples

Example:

Roller Ramp Clutches  Examples

Switchback Railways are driven by electric gear motors. To enable almost free fall an overrunning clutch between driving and driven part is requested.

In this example roller-ramp clutches are used to disconnect the rollers from the slower gear motor automatically without any external device.

Roller Ramp Clutches  Examples

The most important applications for Roller Ramp Clutches are:

as indexing element:

printing presses
dosing machines
franking machines
tanning plants and leather industry
die-casting machine
agricultural machinery: (e.g. manure distributor)
sewing machines
textile machines: Jacquard looms, knitting frames;
transport devices: conveyers, feeders
packaging machines
Roller Ramp Clutches  Examples

as overrunning clutch:

starter
bakery and butcher- machinery
step-up gears
conveying machinery, roller conveyer, handcarts
ventilators
accessory drives
mobile pumps
driers, continuous-heating furnaces
tube mills
turbines
washing machines

as backstop:

drilling plant; winches; bucket conveyers;
gear units: worm gearings, geared engines;
lifting appliances: inclined belt conveyers; band conveyers; cableways;
power plants
ventilators
internal-combustion and diesel engines
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