Patent ID: 7824270

Claim:
A flexible coupling for flexibly joining two moveable members, the flexible coupling comprising: a unitized body having a first end, a second end, and therebetween having two or more longitudinally spaced disks, said disks having a center hole, wherein adjacent ones of the longitudinally spaced disks are formed from separate pieces of material that are joined together; each disk of the two or more longitudinally spaced disks being coaxial to the first and second end, and having two or more axial facing portions of said disk formed in a common axial direction to act as a spacer portion, wherein each disk of the two or more longitudinally spaced disks includes a substantially uniform thickness throughout a major body portion thereof and throughout areas forming the spacer portions; and means for joining each disk of the two or more longitudinally spaced disks, each aligned in a common axial direction to each longitudinally adjacent disk utilizing a surface of a formed spacer portion; and means for joining the disk longitudinally adjacent to the first end, to the first end; and means for joining the disk longitudinally adjacent to the second end, to the second end; and means at the first end for coaxially connecting the first end to a first one of the two moveable members, and means at the second end for connecting the second end to a second one of two moveable members.