Release stop for disc clutch
AssigneeMotoren- und Turbinen-Union Friedrichshafen GmbH
InventorHermann Gros
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Abstract
A lamellae clutch with a large number of lamellae and with a pressure disk adapted to compress the lamellae during engagement of the clutch; the play between the individual lamellae is thereby determined by the length of slide bolts arranged in bores of the pressure disk whereby the slide bolts exceed by a predetermined amount the thickness of the pressure disk.
Claims5
In a friction clutch comprising a plurality of interspersed friction disks disposed along an axis and first means including a pressure plate for compressing said plurality of friction disks along said axis, thereby engaging the clutch, the improvement comprising second means disposed at said pressure plate for determining an axial distance of said plurality of friction disks in the noncompressed state dependent on a predetermned axial thickness of said plurality of friction disks,
- wherein said second means includes a plurality of pins fitted into a plurality of corresponding axial bores through said pressure plate, said pins having a length exceeding the axial thickness of said pressure plate, and said pins being slidable in said bores, and
- wherein said plurality of interspersed friction disks include two sets of said interspersed friction disks, each of said two sets disposed at opposing sides of said pressure plate.
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