From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Promotional document for the Newton Patent Clutch Disc.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 129\1\ scan0063 | |
| Date | 14th November 1936 guessed | |
| File 111D NEWTON CLUTCH DISC Patent No. 443608 Showing how the dished spring-steel washers are fitted. They ensure smooth engagement. Illustrated above is the NEWTON PATENT CLUTCH DISC, a simple yet highly efficient flexible unit which gives an incomparable smoothness of engagement with an entire absence of shudder or snatch. The cut-away section view shows clearly the ingenious construction : two steel plates are utilised, interposed between which is a number of circular dished spring washers, the number and loading of these being determined by the end load required, such load being in direct proportion to the torque to be transmitted. These spring discs are carried, as will be seen, by special shouldered rivets which also serve to secure the FERODO Linings to the clutch plates. Overleaf we give some of the many advantages resulting from the use of the NEWTON CLUTCH DISC and shall be happy to furnish prices and fuller particulars on request. Discs can be supplied either with or without splined centres. Patentees and Manufacturers NEWTON AND BENNETT LTD. VALETTA ROAD, ACTON, LONDON, W.3 Telephone: Shepherds Bush 2372 Telegrams: "Newsorber, Ealux, London" MANCHESTER, 35, KING STREET WEST | ||