Design and Function of Cone Clamping Elements

Cone Clamping Elements as shown in figure 27

consist of an outer ring with inside cone and an
inner ring with outside cone as well as a number
of clamping screws.
The outer ring is pulled onto the inner ring by
tightening the clamping screws. Radial clamping forces are generated by the conical surfaces
which are dependent on the torques of the
clamping screws, the cone angle and the
friction coefficients at the screws and conical
surfaces.

Hub
Inner ring
Outer ring
Shaft

The radial clamping forces press the outer ring

into the hub bore and the inner ring onto the
shaft and create a frictional connection at the
respective contact surfaces. In this way, torque
and/or axial force can be transmitted between
the shaft and the hub.
Clamping screws

In the configuration shown in the illustration,

the connection is released by turning some of
the clamping screws into the threaded bores for
the jacking screws. This presses off the outer
ring.

Threaded bore
for jacking screws

24-1

Centring the hub to the shaft

As a rule, a true running accuracy of the hub to
the shaft of 0,02 to 0,04 mm can be achieved
with Cone Clamping Elements. Exceptions are
the Cone Clamping Elements of the series RLK
200 and RLK 300. With these series the hub must
be centerd to the shaft in accordance with the
specific requirements of the application.

Centring with clamping element

No axial displacement of the hub

relative to the shaft during clamping

released

The overview table on pages 6 and 7 shows

the series for which no axial displacement of
the hub relative to the shaft is created during
the clamping procedure. This is ensured, for
example, by a fixed hub backstop point on the
collar of the inner ring. For all other series, the
clamping procedure (tightening the clamping
screws and pulling the outer ring onto the inner
ring) involves an axial hub displacement.

clamped

No hub displacement

24

Centring with hub

24-2

Hub displacement

24-3

Hub Width and Hub Outer Diameter

Frictional Shaft-Hub-Connections with Cone

Clamping Elements create very high radial
clamping forces. This requires a hardness
analysis of shaft and hub. For this, the Cone
Clamping Element tables list the maximum
pressures Pw in the contact surface at the shaft
and the maximum pressures PN in the contact
surface at the hub.

Load-bearing hub width N

Non-load bearing Load-supporting
hub width
hub width

The contact pressure Pw leads to radial stress in

the shaft that is usually not critical for steel
shafts. There is always a tangential stress st in
the hub, and for thin-walled hubs it may be a
multiple of the initiated pressure PN. The
amount of the actual tangential stress depends
on the load-bearing hub width N, the hub
outer diameter K and the pressure PN. For the
load-bearing hub width N is taken into account, that the hub pressure N is carried by the
load-bearing width L1, and in an angle of 45
beyond it (see figure 25-1).

Load-supporting Non-load bearing

hub width
hub width

45

Hub outer diameter K

45

Load-bearing hub width

For the different Cone Clamping Element

series, the tables list the required hub width
Nmin and the required hub outer diameter Kmin
for three exemplary yield strengths Re of the
hub. Thereby, the hub is to be arranged as seen
in figure 25-2 for Cone Clamping Elements with
a fixed backstop point. For Cone Clamping
Elements without a fixed backstop point, the
hub is to be arranged according to figure 25-3.
For this, we practically assume that the screw
heads of the Cone Clamping Element are flush
with the hub on one side.

25-1

Required hub width Nmin

Load-supporting
hub width

Load-bearing
width L1

Required hub
outer diameter Kmin

45

Hub arrangement for Cone Clamping Elements with a fixed backstop point

25-2

Required hub width Nmin

Load-supporting
hub width

45

Load-bearing
width L1

Load-supporting
hub width

45

Required hub
outer diameter Kmin

For any deviating hub arrangement and/or

lower yield strengths Re of the hub material,
the shaft-hub-connection must be verified
according to the technical points on pages 54
and 55.

Load-bearing width L1

Hub arrangement for Cone Clamping Elements without a fixed backstop point

25

25-3