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Cone clutches and belt drums
The picture below is of a complete J&S 520 workhead drive and that's one of the looming challenges ahead of me. I've been thinking about it for several months and think I have a workable design but would be glad of a few opinions and thoughts on some of the detail that I have not resolved yet.
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Below is a concept sketch (not up to Bob standards - sorry) that tries to explain what I want to do. The original drive has a lever that will couple and decouple the workhead drive drum to the shaft. The drum is needed as when the bed moves back and forth, so does the workhead and so the belt needs to move with it. Ive never done anything like this and am assuming that because it has been done it can be done again but it's all up in the air at the moment. The drum will be approx 3" in diameter and the shaft is 20mm. Speed is around 400prm
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Stepping through, from the motor shaft (driven via micro-vee belt to enable speed changes), the workhead shaft is driven. I have a spring loaded cone clutch that can move along the shaft but is keyed to the shaft to stop it rotating (or rather, to fix it so it rotates with the shaft). In it's natural state the cone is pressed into the conical seat in the drum. The reaction force is provided by another block pinned to the shaft at the other end. When engaged, the drum is fixed relative to the shaft and so rotates. When the lever is moved to the right, the cone is removed from it's seat and (at least in theory) the drum can spin on the shaft. In the sketch the green strips are a plain (self lubricating) bearing material.
So -
- Does anyone see any reason it won't work as planned?
- Do I need some bearing material between the drum stop and the drum so that when the clutch is disengaged, there is no tendency to keep driving?
- Should I have a small spring to push the drum out a fraction when disengaged (bearing in mind that only a mm or two would be required, and I may need another stop to prevent the drum being pushed into the cone
- So that I can hold the clutch out, I was going to use a tent peg slot to hold the lever out. A simple ball joint on top of the clevis probably won't work - any other ideas? (I'd prefer the clutch engagement/ disengagement to be a one handed operation)
- I'm suggesting using plain self lube bushes but would I be better with deep groove ball bearings (bit worried about the inner race spinning on the shaft then)?
- Anything else I've forgotten?
Michael