| 摘要 |
The present invention is a shaft coupler having two complementary bodies that may be joined together to form a coupling. Each body is designed to be fixedly attached to the end of a shaft and has one or more curved flanges that mate to corresponding flanges of another coupler body. The two coupler bodies are engaged together and rotated so that the surfaces of the two corresponding flanges are flush. This forms a void next to the mated flanges of the coupler bodies. One or more locking blocks are then inserted into the void to prevent the coupled bodies from untwisting, thereby securing the couplers in place and the shafts together. The locking block is attached to an interior segment of shaft by a fastener and the sides of the locking block come in flush contact with the sides of the coupler bodies and flanges thereof when attached. The coupler serves to rigidly fix the ends of the shafts together, end to end, to further the purposes of the user. The couplers are fixedly attached due to the mating of all the faces of the flanges of one coupler to the corresponding faces of the flanges of the other coupler body. The coupler is resistant to movement of the shafts with respect to each other in any direction including rotationally.
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