ELASTOMERIC™ CouplingsCoupling Comments
ELASTOMERIC™ Coupling for Runout Table Application
We have some exciting field test results run by a majorsteel mill customer. As you may know ourELASTOMERIC™
couplings are used throughout
industry primarily in pump applications as well as runout(also known as entry/exit/transfer table) applications inhot strip steel mills.NATIONAL STEEL* Corporation in Granite City ran agrueling test of Elastomer type
couplings on their hotstrip mill finishing stand runout tables, between themotor and rolls, with our ELASTOMERIC™, FALK*TORUS, DODGE* PARAFLEX, ATRAFLEX and
REXNORD* OMEGA over a four month period. Our sizenumber 60 ELASTOMERIC™
coupling with steel hubs(available as an option, standard hubs are Aluminum)
outlasted all of the others. Our ELASTOMERIC™
couplings have been selected as the
coupling of choiceat GRANITE CITY STEEL*, on runout table application,
after the side by side ‘shootout’ with our competitors.Price was not the reason we were selected - a casein point - performance outweighing the price!Just to give you a scope of this success, in a typicalhot strip mill there are somewhere between 100 to
300 table rolls - most are motorized - and each drivenroll needs a
coupling between the motor and the roll.Besides GRANITE CITY STEEL*, we have many
other applications with ELASTOMERIC™ couplingon runout table such as LTV STEEL* (Cleveland),WHEELING PITTSBURGH STEEL*, ARMCO
STEEL*, WEIRTON STEEL*, ALGOMA STEEL*,NORTH STAR/BHP*, and the list goes on.ELASTOMERIC™
couplings have several features :•Never needs lubrication•Easy to install - wrap around rubber element allows replacement without removing theconnected equipment•Drives through compression - avoids the pitfallsof other rubber/urethane
couplings in shearBesides the ELASTOMERIC™
coupling the otherpopular choice for the runout table application is theFAST’S
ELASTOMERIC™ Coupling for Runout table(shown under the guard) at a major hot stripsteel mill
®
gear coupling from KOP-FLEX
® brandcouplings with its unique metal seal design.
*DODGE is a trademark of Reliance Electric Company.*FALK is a trademark of The Falk Corporation.
*REXNORD is a trademark of Rexnord Industries Inc.
*GRANITE CITY STEEL is a trademark of United States Steel Corporation.
*LTV STEEL is a trademark of LTV Steel Company, Inc.
*NATIONAL STEEL Corporation is a trademark of National Steel Corporation.
*WHEELING PITTSBURGH STEEL is a trademark of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation
*ARMCO STEEL is a trademark of AK Steel Corporation.
*WEIRTON STEEL is a trademark of Weirton Steel Corporation.
*ALGOMA STEEL is a trademark of Bank of America, National Association.
*NORTH STEEL/BHP is a trademark of Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited.
These trade names, trademarks and/or registered trademarks of others are used herein for product comparison purposes only, are the property of their respective owners and are not owned orcontrolled by Emerson Power Transmission Corporation (EPT). EPT does not represent or warrant the accuracy of this document. 108
