Patent ID: 6135667
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: B62D,F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
A slap yoke for connection to a non-cylindrical shaft in a rotary-drive device, said slap yoke comprising:an axially extending non-cylindrical socket on an end opposite a trunnion end of said yoke, for receiving said non-cylindrical shaft, said socket having two laterally opposed holes in its walls for transverse installation of a clamp bolt;a cylindrical threaded clamp bolt having a drive head for bearing against the outer surface of a first wall of said non-cylindrical socket;a cylindrical jacket fitted over said cylindrical bolt, said jacket having longitudinally centered means for causing radial expansion of said jacket under a compressive axial load; andthreaded means on a second wall of said non-cylindrical socket for receiving said threaded clamp bolt and for causing a compressive axial load on said cylindrical jacket when said clamp bolt is threaded thereinto.