Examples
Roller coasters are driven by electric gear motors. To enable almost free fall an overrunning clutch between driving and driven part is requested.
In this example rollerramp clutches are used to disconnect the rollers from the slower gear motor automatically without any external device.
The most important applications for rollerramp clutches are
as indexing element:
- Printing presses
- Dosing machines
- Franking machines
- Tanning plants and leather industry
- Die-casting machine
- Agricultural machinery: (e.g. manure distributor)
- Sewing machines
- Textile machines: Jacquard looms, knitting frames
- Transport devices: conveyers, feeders
- Packaging machines
as overrunning clutch:
- Starter
- Bakery and butcher machinery
- Step-up gears
- Conveying machinery, roller conveyers, handcarts
- Ventilators
- Accessory drives
- Mobile pumps
- Driers, continuous furnaces
- Tube mills
- Turbines
- Washing machines
as backstop:
- Drilling plant; winches; bucket conveyers
- Gear units: worm gearings, geared engines
- Lifting appliances: inclined belt conveyers; band conveyers; cableways;
- Power plants
- Ventilators
- Internal combustion and diesel
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