Maximize Productivity: Discover How Keyless Locking Devices Can Improve Your Sawmill Performance

Climax Keyless Locking Devices (KLDs) withstand the constant pounding associated with timber processing applications, making them an ideal replacement for expensive and time-consuming traditional interference fit connections. By eliminating the risk of keyed connection failures, KLDs ensure optimal equipment performance, leading to reduced waste, increased productivity, and superior product quality.

Sawmill Systems and Planer/Feed Tables commonly incorporate traditional keyed connections when attaching feed rollers in sawmill equipment. Using a keyed connection adds weight and cost not only to the shaft but to every component on the shaft. Over time, keyways cause fretting corrosion, allowing for backlash, and do not transmit bending moments or axial loads.

Climax Keyless Locking Devices can be used in place of a keyed connection, especially when subjected to extreme environments where constant load reverses are common. KLDs use multiple screws with opposing tapers, creating a 360° contact mechanical interference fit. Where pin retention is used in sawmill equipment, using a Series-C133 or Series-C405 locking assembly eliminates the need for welding components onto other structures. Maintenance is easy as KLDs are field serviceable and can be removed and reinstalled using simple hand tools.

Climax offers industrial markets an unparalleled combination of product quality, extensive inventory, design and application acumen, and flexible manufacturing with attractive lead times. Applied® carries an extensive inventory of shaft collars, rigid couplings, and keyless locking devices, with the capability to engineer custom designs to fit any application challenge.

For more information on how Climax provides quality engineered shaft locking solutions, contact your local Applied® associate today.