TAPPI Over The Wire Paper 360
Past Issues | Printer Friendly | TAPPI.org | Advertise | Buyers Guide | Travels with Larry Archive Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
       

Gearing Solutions Introduces 5-HP FlexFrame Speed Reducer

Print Print this Article | Send to Colleague


Gearing Solutions, Solon, Ohio, has introduced its FlexFrame™ 5-HP face mounted speed reducer with patented adaptors, which allow them to be used with either IEC or NEMA motors. This allows users to quickly switch or replace motors, interchange IEC and NEMA motors for export applications, add face, flange, or foot mounts, and use GS convertible shaft adaptors to match virtually any motor to any gearbox.  Consisting of a face mounted speed reducer with a hollow shaft input, these new designs function as gearheads. 

Built on the Nu-Lobe gear design, the FlexFrame units are available in standard ratios of 3:1, 4:1, and 5:1, making them ideal for a wide range of industrial and commercial applications, including use on mixers, parking lot gates, wind turbine yaw drives, conveyors, hoists, and other material handling equipment, food processing equipment, robotic drives, and more.

With aluminum housings, FlexFrame units are up to 50% lighter with the smallest profile on the market, creating a premium weight to torque ratio (power density). This allows them to be used in cantilevered and over-center designs where heavier gearheads are not feasible. Proven Gearing Solutions gearheads are shock load resistant, cost-effective, and easily mounted. 

Gearing Solutions, the creator of MaxaMin™ Roller Gears, manufactures third-generation planetary and cycloidal roller gears used in a wide variety of gearheads, speed reducers, and engineered products. Features include easily modified designs, special housing design, and manufacturing capabilities. These gears can be combined to create more than 2.500 ratios, up to 2500:1.  Rounding out the Gearing Solutions capabilities are in-house engineering, efficient prototyping, and short run capabilities. Additional information is available online, or email, call (440) 498-9538, or write Gearing Solutions, 5905A Harper Road, Solon, OH 44139.

 

Back to TAPPI: Over The Wire

Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn