Tyre Couplings

UK Flowtechnik Tyre Couplings are designed to provide excellent shock absorption while reducing torsional oscillations and vibration which can result in extending the life of the machinery equipment. Tyre Couplings are used for applications where the machine is subject to highly irregular torque patterns as well as being used for installations with high shaft misalignment.

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The design of the tyre couplings makes practical use of a flexible, cord-reinforced rubber tyre which is clamped between flanges that mount on to connecting shafts. With no lubrication required and easy assembling, the tyre couplings are great for installations that required low maintenance.

These couplings are one of the safest due to the design, with no metal-to-metal contact even if the tyre fails. The tyres are available with standard and FRAS (Fire Resistant and Anti-static). UK Flowtechnik Tyre Couplings are interchangeable with the industry standard products meaning each component is compatible with other brands. 

Common industrial uses for tyre couplings

UK Flowtechnik Tyre Couplings are used in many industries that require power/torque being transmitted from shaft to shaft as well as compensating for misalignment and shock loads. Industries such as Cement Manufacturing, Compressors, Electrical Power, Food Processing, Generators, Hoisting/Cranes, Steel, Marine, Mining, Paper Mills, Pumping and Shipbuilding.

UNE has a remarkable experience working in pump installations. The UNEFLEX elastic tyre coupling works successfully in these types of applications, as it tolerates strong misalignments and isolates vibrations. When pumps start ups are made, the tyre coupling prevents the machinery from having any strong vibration or defectiveness as it is verified that the rubber is able to face the inertia moments. Moreover, the shock of the engine start up is absorbed by the highly elastic coupling, increasing the life of the pump and gear.

Flexible spacer coupling

UNEFLEX highly elastic rubber tyre spacer coupling in a pump installation

In addition to the current UNEFLEX flexible tyre couplings, UNE also manufactures spacer couplings. It consists of a Uneflex tyre coupling plus a spacer flange assembly.

The spacers coupling are designed for use on applications where it is an advantage to be able to move either shaft axially without removing the gear and the pump.

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UNEFLEX flexible rubber spacer coupling easy to remove

Applying this tyre coupling design, we are able to remove the mechanical seal for easier maintenance systems and repairs without moving either the pump or the gear. They are design with standard distances between shaft end dimensions (D.B.S.E.), but we can design the coupling that best fits with your application requirements.

Sectors where the UNEFLEX flexible tyre coupling is located in pumps

UNEFLEX elastic tyre Couplings applied in pumps in different kinds of industries

The UNEFLEX couplings that are placed in pumps are located in many different types of industries, as for example, paper mills, textile industry, in the steel making plants, food processing industry, marine and sea applications and also in chemical industry.

Fields of Application for Couplings Placed in Pumps

Couplings can be applied in centrifugal pumps, which can be identified in many types of different industries or fields of application:

• Oil and gas chemical industries: the pumps play an important role in converting crude oil into the end product. They are relevant to provide the right fluid or volume of pressure and liquid transfer. Sometimes pumps are used to adjust the temperature in some parts of the system.

• Agriculture: pumps are used mainly in machinery used for irrigation.

• Mining and metallurgy industries: the main function consists on draining and cooling water supplies.

• Nuclear plants: it is required a high level of primary and secondary pump system, while the thermal power plants also need boiler feed pumps, compensate pumps, loop pumps, and ash pumps.

• Military applications: hydraulic fluids are required in this field in order to adjust planes&#; wings and rudders, turning turrets on ships and tanks, the up and down of submarines, etc.

• Shipbuilding: In shipbuilding it is very common to find many types of pumps in a ship.

• Water supplies: these are included or used in municipal water supplies and drainage, water supplies of locomotives, lubricating and cooling machine equipment, and sugar refining.

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