Clutches and Brakes Reference Materials

Description: When you're trying to decide which type of industrial brake is best for your particular application (such as mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic brakes), it's important to understand both the reasons ...

Description: Need help picking the right industrial brake for your application? You're in the right place. This page covers some of the different kinds of caliper disc brakes available, their pros and cons, and ...

Description: Mechanical clutches are a vital component of many power transmission systems where you need to apply torque in one direction of rotation. Recent innovations in clutch design and technology are making ...

Description: There are many pieces to selecting the correct stopping brake for a particular application. It uses many of the components of selection for gear reducers, chain and belt drives and motors, but has ...

Description: There are many pieces to selecting the correct clutch brake for a particular application. It uses many of the components of selection for gear reducers, chain and belt drives and motors, but has some ...

Description: Many Force Control Industries clutches and brakes are available for C Face mounting. C Face means the clutch or brake can be mounted to a motor or gear reducer by a flange mounting and female quill to ...

Description: Force Control Posidyne Clutch Brakes, Posistop and Positorq Brakes, and MagnaShear Brakes can all be modified for marine duty applications. This means they can be used for salt water applications on ...

Description: Force Control Industries offers a washdown option for all oil Shear products. The purpose of washdown option is to prevent damage and early failure due to moisture, water, saltwater, caustic spray, or ...

Description: Force Control Industries is known around the word for the reliability of their Posidyne clutch brakes, Posistop and MagnaShear brakes and the Positorq continuous slip brakes. They will do the ...

Description: Force Control clutch brakes operate by applying pressure to a centrally located piston applying pressure to the friction stacks. There is a clutch friction stack and a brake friction stack. The unit ...

Description: Posidyne Oil Shear Clutch Brakes last so much longer than the popular dry friction inexpensive clutch brakes it is sometimes hard to determine how much savings can be realized. ...

Description: Posidyne Clutch Brakes, Posistop brakes and Positorq Brakes can be actuated by air pressure or hydraulic pressure. All Force Control clutches and brakes operate by pressurizing a piston to apply ...

Description: Electric motors see wide usage in machines with rotating components. Motors are often quite expensive, so it is important to prevent them from failure caused by carrying more electric current than ...

Description: Torque limiters and safety clutch couplings are ideally installed as physically close to the point of impact or overload as possible in order to enhance sensitivity. As with flexible couplings, the ...

Description: When designing a test bench, Particle brakes made by Merobel™ provide an excellent solution, because of their ability to generate a torque load that is precise, variable and easy to control - at ...

Description: A&F Corporation, a machinery builder for the paper industry, recently completed the start-up of a slitter/ rewinder machine at a North American paper mill. The slitter/ rewinder is used for processing ...

Description: For this application the arm was required to be held when no power was applied, so Hitachi knew they needed a power off brake supplier. Hitachi chose Ogura, and their technical team, design ...

Description: Servicing wind generators with an exterior basket/elevator system allows for more freedom of movement and increases safety. ...

Description: Gruvön's paper mill annually produces 600 000 tons (1,323 million-lb) of sulphate paper pulp. In the wood room the bark is removed and the chipping machine hacks up the timber. ...

Description: An interview with Lesli Riehemann, Mach III's president of 11 years. ...

Description: In the May Medical Trendwatch issue of Design News, there was an article featuring Oguras permanent magnet brakes for targeted biopsy ...

Description: In the February 2012 issue of Motion System Design, Ogura contributed both pictures and information regarding the current trends in braking technology. Ogura's information was focused in two separate ...

Description: In the May issue of the Design News Medical Trend Watch, an article by Ogura showed how eye doctors were using a spring-applied clutch to achieve a finer control of a vision testing table. The article ...

Description: In the October issue of Design News, there was an article featuring Oguras OPC-80 magnetic particle clutch for a system that helps detect bedrock for anchoring oil platforms. ...

Description: Determining how long a friction clutch or brake will last has much to do with application. Cycle rates, revolutions per minute and the air pressure required to produce the torque to drive or stop the ...

Description: Without proper web tension, the following problems can occur:Telescoped or Dished Finished Rolls; Wrinkles; Web Drift; Web Breaks; Poor Printing Registration; Laminated Roll Cur ...

Description: Shaft brakes are used to stop and hold the propeller shafts in case of an emergency. Each propeller shaft is equipped with two Dellner Brakes type SKD 4x100 pressure applied caliper disc brakes ...

Description: The brake system on each of the energy absorbers consists of two Dellner Brakes type SKD 4x75 hydraulically applied disc brakes working on a 1400 mm (55.1 in) diameter brake disc. The arrester system ...

Description: Each propeller shaft now has installed one Dellner Brakes type SKD 65 pressure applied disc brake operating on a 600 mm (23.6 in) diameter brake disc. With 59 bar (856 psi) hydraulic pressure to each ...

Description: OVAKO operates several ASEA cranes equipped with old ASEA spring applied, hydraulically released brakes. (ASEA no longer produces brakes). High maintenance of the old worn brakes and high spare part ...

Description: Each brake system consists of a Dellner Brakes type SKD 2x100 hydraulic pressure applied disc brake working on an 1160 mm (45.7 in) diameter disc and a pressure intensifier system. The brakes are ...

Description: Each engine shaft is equipped with four Dellner Brakes type SKD 50 hydraulically applied disc brakes operating on two 495 mm (19.5 in) diameter discs (2 brakes per disc). The brakes are activated with ...

Description: Each of the two drive shafts is equipped with a 1150 mm (45.3 in) diameter brake disc and eight Dellner Brakes type SKD 80 hydraulically applied disc brakes. The pressure for the brakes is provided by ...

Description: Winches for two cranes with lifting capacity of 33,5 tonnes (36.8 st) respective 51,5 tonnes (56.6 st). The disc brakes work as both parking brakes as well as emergency brakes. Due to the limited ...

Description: Length 294 m (321.5 yd). Propulsion power 39 MW (52,300 hp). Max speed 24 knots. Maximum number of persons on board including the crew is 3450. The brake system for each ship consists of two Dellner ...

Description: Emergency/parking brakes for hoisting winch drives on a ro-ro catamaran ferry bridge. The purpose of the brakes is to hold the bridge between the dock and catamaran ferry during car and truck loading. ...

Description: A Dellner SKP 220 spring applied, hydraulic released caliper is mounted on each of the two Ridderinkhof swing winches on this Vosta LMG built CSD for end user Arab Potash at the Dead Sea in Jordania. ...

Description: Each of the eleven vessels is powered by 2 x Wärtsilä 16V25 main diesel engines which provide a total propulsion power of 7360 kW (10000 bhp). Each propeller shaft is equipped with a shaft brake ...

Description: The purpose of the brakes is to slow down and/or stop the elevator during an emergency. The application consists of four Dellner brakes type SKP 95-27 spring applied, hydraulically released disc ...

Description: Each propeller shaft is equipped with a Dellner Brakes model SKD 2x100 hydraulic pressure applied disc brake operating on a ø 750 mm (29.5 in) brake disc which provides a brake torque of 28 400 Nm ...

Description: Each propeller shaft is equipped with a Dellner Brakes model SKD 4x100 pressure applied disc brake operating on a ø1050 mm (41.3 in) brake disc. The primary function of the brake is to hold the ...

Description: The propulsion brake systems on Queen Mary 2 consists of four Dellner model SKD 100 hydraulic pressure applied brakes working on a brake disc ø1300 mm (51.18 in). Each Mermaid Pod uses this system, ...

Description: In 1997, deck machinery was delivered to Statoil´s oil rig Norne, 200 km (125 mi) off the Norwegian coast. Similar deck machinery was also delivered to the oil rigs Åsgard, Visund and Troll. Dellner ...

Description: Four Dellner Brakes type SKD 80 hydraulic pressure applied brakes installed to operate on 4 x 610 mm (4 x 24 in) diameter discs. One disc per drive wheel. Special seals for low temperature (-45 °C/-50 ...

Description: In the process of welding tubes/pipes to an endless pipe, Dellner brakes are mounted on the transporting system. Every time the tubes are welded together the transporting system is put on holding ...

Description: The SY Alithia has a MTU-6R 183 TE 93 main engine, rated at 441 kW (591 hp) at 2300 rpm that drives a Servogear propulsion system with controllable pitch propeller. Dellner Brakes AB supplied a ...

Description: Side scene and stage light winches with lifting capacity of 4 and 5 metric tons (8,820 and 11,025 lb). The purpose of the brakes is to stop and hold the stage lights/side scenes at the desired height ...

Description: Two Dellner brakes, model SKD 65 (hydraulically pressure applied brakes), are installed on each of the two tram cars. The brakes are used in junction with the existing four-level electrical brakes. ...

Description: Rolls-Royce will supply different packages of components to the T45 destroyers. For example, the propulsion system, which includes a brake system. The brake system consists of Dellner Brakes well ...

Description: The brake is used to hold back torque in the drill string to avoid motor stall and to assist with positioning the drill bit when directional drilling. Dellner Brakes model SKD 50 hydraulic pressure ...

Description: Each of the horizontal turbines was refitted with Dellner Brakes type SKD 80 hydraulically applied disc brakes, which operate on 1000 mm (39.4 in) diameter brake discs. The brakes are required to slow ...

Description: Clutches are commonly connected to a drive system through roller chains and belting. This requires that a sprocket or pulley be mounted directly to the clutch. A pilot style clutch is made for this ...

Description: With the increase of design integration of electronic control systems with mechanical systems, new concepts of engineering are being developed to simplify the overall equipment and increase its ...

Description: The reliability maintenance team at the fine papers division of a major multinational paper producer recently discovered an alternative to the maintenance and repair aggravation they were experiencing ...

Description: Warner Electric Precision Tork magnetic particle clutches and brakes are the ideal solution for controlling and maintaining torque. If the application is tensioning, load simulation, torque limiting, ...

Description: A&F Corporation, a machinery builder for the paper industry, recently completed the start-up of a slitter/ rewinder machine at a North American paper mill. The slitter/ rewinder is used for processing ...