Patent ID: 8460113

Claim:
An elastic joint body for a shaft arrangement for the articulated connection of two shaft sections, comprising: a plurality of bushings which are arranged in the circumferential direction in predetermined angular distances with respect to a centre axis of the joint body, a plurality of loop bundles, with each loop bundle looping around two neighbouring bushings and each bushing being looped around by at least two loop bundles, one of which may be subjected to a tensile load in the case of a torque transmission via the shaft sections, and the other one may be subjected to a thrust load, a support device which is arranged on at least one bushing for axially guiding the plurality of the loop bundles, and a rubber-elastic casing into which the loop bundles, the support devices and the bushings are at least partially embedded, wherein the support device is formed by assembling at least two separately formed inner collar elements attached on the bushing and at least two outer collar elements separately formed from the inner collar elements and separately formed from each other, the at least two outer collar elements are attached on the bushing, wherein the inner collar elements being allocated to the tensile-loaded loop bundle and one of the inner collar elements being in contact with one of the opposite axial ends of the tensile-loaded loop bundle and two loop bundles being arranged between the inner collar elements and the outer collar elements, wherein the inner collar elements and the outer collar elements are configured such that the axial position of the collar elements is settable on the bushing in accordance with a predetermined nominal cross-section of the loop bundle to be supported.