Universal Gear Industries & Engineering Works manufactures geared couplings. The advantage of using geared couplings on all directly connected machinery is recognised and appreciated by engineers and operating personnel. These geared couplings are intended to compensate for the usual and unavoidable errors in alignment and should allow free lateral flow to the connected shafts. Even when favourable conditions permit perfect alignment to the two shafts, there is no assurance they will remain so, the vibrations, the sinking of foundation, wear of bearings and inaccuracies in machining are all common enemies to the safe and efficient operation of connected machinery. Misalignment of machines connected by rigid couplings not only casuses excessive wear of couplings and machine parts but also increase power consumption. When two out of line shafts are connected rigidly, severe bending stresses are set up in each shaft. For each revolution, the shaft passes through a complete cycle of tension and compression stresses and would be likely to fatigue the shaft material and considerable heat and damage the whole mechanism. Universal geared couplings are designed to handle the misalignments of connected shafts. These couplings in an assembled condition are ready to take misalignment.
