Conversion of Elastic Couplings
Often used in the Steel- and Port-Industry: torsionally elastic claw couplings. Despite beeing technically not necessarily required, those coupling types are still popular.
If there would not be the matter with the usual high wear rate of the intermediate elastic (“spider”) ring…
This was always an annoiance of a German steelmill – but converting the elastic coupling to a Gear Coupling seemed so far to laborious. Replacing the disc, the hubs and the coupling itself and probably moving the motor and re-align it – just difficult in terms of costs, working hours and downtime of the equipment.
So the customer decided to go for the MALMEDIE® “S-NX”, a conversion kit with the same dimensions as the middle part (claw rings) of the elastic coupling. The conversion was done in shortest time, the existing hubs and the brake disc were re-used again. And now, a Gear Coupling is in operation, which is fully encapsulated and filled by MALMEDIE® with a longlife grease. For the next approx. 15000 operating hours, no maintenance or replacement of parts will be required.
