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OwnerMelbourne Giberson, Mark Simonelli +2inventors
InventorsMelbourne Giberson, Mark Simonelli, Frederick Wiesinger, Gerald Abrams
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In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
In a fluid coupling connected to a flywheel of a diesel engine, said fluid coupling having an impeller and impeller casing connected to an input shaft and a runner connected to an output shaft, said impeller and runner having facing cavities, the improvement comprising annular flanges on said impeller and impeller casing, said flanges having facing radial faces parallel to a plane of a gap between said facing cavities, the faces of the impeller flange and the impeller casing flange lying beyond the plane of said gap in a direction toward the input shaft, and said impeller casing flange having radial passages through it.
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