Patent ID: 6354950
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
A flexible shaft coupling comprising:two coupling halves, each including a connecting flange, said two coupling halves connected to one another by means of a lamella packet collar so as to rotate together but be axially and angularly movable relative to one another; wherein the lamella packet collar is formed of several lamellas axially spaced by spacer elements and is fastened by means of circumferentially distributed fastening and clamping elements alternatingly to the two connecting flanges; wherein the lamellas are positive-lockingly connected with one another by an elastic material in that the lamellas are embedded in the elastic material so that the elastic material is arranged between the lamellas and at the outer sides of the lamella packet collar; and wherein the lamellas comprise several bores in the area between the fastening and clamping elements, into which bores the elastic material is positive-lockingly molded.