LUFKIN offers a comprehensive range of gear couplings:
- standard
- rope drum carrier
- disc brake
- disengageable
- brakewheel
- large misalignment
- shear pin
- high speed
and specials of all types.
LUFKIN coupling products form the basis of iron and steel industry and EDF standards.
The LUFKIN flexible gear coupling, manufactured entirely in steel, permits the transmission of high torques in limited spaces while exhibiting all the qualities of an excellent coupling element.
LUFKIN couplings are used widely throughout industry and are renowned for reliability and very high performance particularly with respect to:
- load: the largest are fitted on shafts of 650 mm diameter
- speed: on some test benches can exceed 30,000 rpm
- safety: transport of people, handling of heavy loads, etc.
Special type 400 coupling, installed at ONERA, Modane (France), for connecting NEYRPIC turbines to a RATEAU wind tunnel compressor. P = 50,000 kW.
Couplings type AFX 220, which can be disengaged at rest, delivered to JEUMONT SCHNEIDER for connecting rolling mill motors for use in Korea.
Coupling hub on LUFKIN's automatic horizontal balancing machine.