Patent ID: 7694796
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. A load torque blocking device for automatically blocking load-side torques when a drive-side torque drops off or ceases, while retaining the ability to transfer drive-side torques, that includes a frame-mounted housing ( 11 ) with a central housing bore ( 12 ), a rotatably mounted drive shaft ( 17 ), which extends into the housing bore with axially extending engaging means ( 19 ), a rotatably mounted driven shaft ( 34 ), which also extends into the housing bore with axially extending engaging means ( 37 ), and with a plurality of clamping bodies ( 24 ) located eccentrically in the housing bore and axially supported in an annular cage ( 23 ), which are pivotably mounted such that they are capable of being locked in position or fixedly clamped against a wall of the housing bore via load-side torques of the engaging means of the driven shaft, and which are capable of being disengaged from the wall of the housing bore and driven in a circulating manner via drive-side torques of the engaging means of the drive shaft, wherein the engaging means ( wherein the annular cage ( wherein each of the plurality of clamping bodies (