Luk Lamellen Und Kupplungsbau Gmbh

Egon Zapf

Oswald Friedmann

Oswald Kroninger

Apparatus for damping vibrations between at least two flywheels in the power train of a motor vehicle wherein one flywheel rotates with the output shaft of the engine and another flywheel can drive the input shaft of a transmission in response to engagement of a friction clutch. The flywheels are rotatable relative to each other against the opposition of one or more dampers which are installed in an annular chamber of the one flywheel. The chamber contains a supply of viscous damping fluid and the one flywheel has two disc-shaped sections which are made of sheet metal and define the chamber. The sections are welded to each other radially outwardly of the chamber.

Two-moss flywheel torsional damper having a welded housing

The clutch plate and the housing (including the cover and a diaphragm spring in the cover) of a friction clutch are centered relative to each other and are held at a selected axial distance from each other on first and second centering portions of a mounting tool which has a handle at one end and the other end of which is insertable into an axial recess of the output element of an engine. The cover is centered on and is fastened to a flywheel of the output element before the tool is extracted from the output element, thereupon the clutch plate and ultimately from the housing. The tool is provided with a movable holding portion which maintains the tips of prongs forming part of the diaphragm spring in abutment with a locating portion of the tool to thus maintian the tips in a selected axial position. The holding portion can be disengaged from and can be moved through the splined hub of the clutch plate in response to angular and/or other movement relative to at least one of the centering portions.

Method of installing friction clutches in motor vehicles

A hub includes a cylindrical hub body and means comprising a flange member for flanging the hub body, the flanging means being slidably mounted on and fastened to the hub body and extending in radial direction, at least one of the hub body and the flanging means being formed with profiling for effecting a form lock against relative movement thereof at least in circumferential direction, a respective abutment formed on the hub body on each side of the flanging means, at least one of the abutments being a wedged-over portion of the hub body received in a channel formed in the flanging means.

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Buhlertal, Germany

Egon Zapf