flange coupling

British

noun

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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flange coupling

The cast-iron flange coupling is shown in fig.

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