Luk Lamellen Und Kupplungsbau Gmbh

Heinz Molt

Johann Jackel

Johann J&auml;ckel

Wolfgang Haas

Friedrich Gerhardt

Helmut Kohler

Peter Klein

Herbert Kiefer-Gander

Joachim Hoffmann

Alexander Ellert

A selected portion of a surface of a metallic workpiece such as the end surface of a tubular workpiece, is provided with one or more recesses by resorting to a tool having a preferably pointed tip and being driven into the surface to displace the material of the workpiece substantially transversely of the thus obtained recess. The latter can be used to facilitate the establishment of a separable connection between the workpiece and a substantially disc-shaped section of a cover or housing in a friction clutch for use in motor vehicles. The tool can be left in the recess to serve as a locating or centering device for the workpiece.

Method of making recesses in metallic workpieces for use in torque transmitting apparatus

Method of making recesses in metallic workpieces for use torque

A pulley which can be driven by the output element of the engine in a motor vehicle to transmit torque to one or more endless belts or chains has a rotary input member, a rotary output member and a damper which yieldably opposes rotation of the input and output members relative to each other about a common axis and is at least partially confined in an annular chamber defined by at least one of the input and output members. The chamber can further receive a friction bearing which operates between the input and output members, as well as a vibration absorbing device. Such device can have a mass which is adjacent a flange of one of the input and output members and one or more energy storing elements acting in the circumferential direction of the pulley.

Pulley with a damper between rotary input and output members

The metallic portion of a multiple wrap brake band for use in automatic transmissions of motor vehicles is obtained by deforming a circular metallic blank at right angles to its plane into a cup-shaped preform. The bottom wall of the preform is separated from the annular wall and the annular wall is thinned, calibrated, cut, slotted and provided with actuating elements as well as slitted in the circumferential direction to form several neighboring wraps of the multiple wrap brake band. A prefabricated split ring-shaped brake lining is bonded to the internal surface of the annular wall prior to the formation of wraps.

Method of making brake bands

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Heinz Molt