Lovejoy Couplings

Lovejoy Couplings

Lovejoy by Timken is a world leader in coupling technology. They are the best of the best when it comes to coupling, power transmission, hydraulic components, and tensioning and vibration management technology. Lovejoy couplings provides solutions for customers across the globe. A premiere supplier of flexible shaft couplings and other power transmission elements, Lovejoy is internationally recognized. They’ve been pushing the boundaries of manufacturing technology for more than a century, their product design and unique solutions fit the bill in many applications across various industries. 

Creating Value Through Innovation

Lovejoy is a world leader when it comes to couplings, and while their competitors are driven by high-volume production efforts, Lovejoy focuses on creating value for their customers through innovative solutions and cost-effective products you can trust. This brand has been pioneering advanced manufacturing technologies for the past century, beginning with the production of Lovejoy can serve as a single source for all your coupling needs regardless of application. This brand can meet any production requirements, from standard fittings to customized solutions, offering up a line of couplings in every size and type including: 

  • QUICK FLEX® 
  • Curved Jaw
  • Jaw In-Shear 
  • S-Flex Endurance® 
  • HurcuFlex® 
  • Torsional and Disc style couplings 

They also manufacture other power transmission components such as variable speed drives, RunRight® tensioning devices, motor bases, universal joints, and sheaves. Their solutions span uses across a variety of industries including steel, pulp and paper, food processing, mining, construction, and power generation. No matter the use, Lovejoy makes a coupling to fit the bill. 

Local Feel, Global Reach 

Though Lovejoy supplies coupling solutions for customers worldwide, their approach to business is distinctively local. With distribution networks located in every major market across North America as well as in 45 other countries, a distributor is never out of reach. Each distributor is supported by a large network of regional sales offices and warehouses under the Lovejoy and Timken names, each with engineering, marketing, and customer service departments ready to assist customers with any need. 

A Timken Brand 

In 2016, Timken acquired the Lovejoy brand incorporating it into the Timken Power Transmission Group. As a Timken company, Lovejoy shares their same mission, vision, values, and commitment to excellence– manufacturing products that exceed expectations and provide innovative solutions to a slew of industry challenges.

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FAQs

  • Is Lovejoy a Timken brand?
    Yes, Lovejoy is a brand under the Timken umbrella, and a world leader in coupling technology. In 2016, Timken acquired the Lovejoy brand incorporating it into the Timken Power Transmission Group. As a Timken company, Lovejoy shares their same mission, vision, values, and commitment to excellence– manufacturing products that exceed expectations and provide innovative solutions to a slew of industry challenges.
  • What is Lovejoy known for?
    The Lovejoy brand is recognized around the world as the premier supplier of flexible shaft couplings and other power transmission components. Lovejoy is the best of the best when it comes to coupling, power transmission, hydraulic components, and tensioning and vibration management technology.
  • Why use a Lovejoy flexible coupling?
    A flexible coupling connects two shafts, end-to-end in the same line, for two main purposes. The first is to transmit power (torque) from one shaft to the other, causing both to rotate in unison, at the same RPM. The second is to compensate for minor amounts of misalignment and random movement between the two shafts. Belt, chain, gear, and clutch drives also transmit power from one shaft to another, but not necessarily at the same RPM and not with the shafts in approximately the same line.
  • What is angular misalignment in regard to couplings?
    Angular misalignment is the measure of the angle between the centerlines of driving and driven shafts, where those centerlines would intersect roughly halfway between the shaft ends. Coupling catalogs will annotate the maximum angular misalignment tolerable in each coupling, and a coupling should not be operated in applications in which both angular and parallel misalignment at their maximum values.
  • What constitutes axial displacement of couplings?
    Axial displacement is the change in axial position of the shaft and part of the coupling in a direction parallel to the axial centerline. It can be caused by thermal growth or a floating rotor. Some couplings are designed to limit this particular type of displacement, and are called limited end float couplings.
  • What is a fail-safe Lovejoy coupling?
    A fail-safe coupling is one that will continue to operate for a period of time after the element that transmits torque has failed. This is a characteristic of couplings in which some portions of both halves operate within the same plane, allowing direct contact between them.
  • What are the advantages of using Lovejoy compression couplings?
    Generally speaking, compression type couplings offer two advantages over shear types. Firstly, because elastomers have higher load capacity in compression than in shear, compression types can transmit higher torque and tolerate greater overload. Secondly, they offer greater torsional stiffness, with some designs even approaching the positive-displacement stiffness of metallic couplings.
  • Are jaw couplings compression type couplings?
    Yes, jaw couplings are a classic example of compression style couplings, initially patented in 1927. This type is still one of the most widely used types of flexible coupling, and one available at the lowest cost.
  • What are typical applications of jaw couplings?
    Typical applications for jaw couplings include pumps, gearboxes, compressors, fans/blowers, mixers, conveyors, and generators, usually driven by an electric motor. Jaw couplings usually are not recommended for engine-driven, frequent stop-start or reciprocating loads because they are not designed to dampen torsional vibration.
  • What is an L type coupling?
    An L type coupling is the industry’s standard shaft coupling type, and they accommodate for angular and parallel shaft misalignment. This coupling type also comes in the industry’s largest stock selection available, and is resistant to oil, dirt, sand, moisture, and grease.
  • Where can I find Lovejoy couplings?
    Find Lovejoy couplings and other components through ProSource industrial in Chattanooga, TN.

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