flange coupling

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engineering a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive

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The natural result was that anything further than unison coupling was seldom attempted.
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