Coupling Types

Gear couplings aren't one product; six geometrically distinct variants cover different combinations of misalignment capacity, axial travel, shaft separation and disassembly requirement. Specifying the wrong variant is rarely a torque-capacity mistake — it is usually a geometry mistake that only shows up once the machine is installed.

This cluster works through each variant in turn: the full and half gear coupling as the baseline configurations, the flanged-sleeve and spacer-type variants used where axial space or shaft separation matters, the brake-drum coupling that doubles as a braking surface, and the vertical gear coupling built to carry the thrust load of a vertically mounted drive.

Every article in this cluster carries a cross-section drawing, a real photograph, a dimension table and a “when to specify this” section — the geometry a catalogue photo does not show.