{"id":1208,"date":"2024-07-09T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:33:13","slug":"hooke-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/theory-of-machines\/hooke-joint","title":{"rendered":"Hooke Joint or Universal Coupling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a device to connect two shafts whose axes are neither coaxial nor parallel but intersect at a point. This is used to transmit power from the engine to the rear axle of an automobile and similar other applications. It is also known as universal coupling. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1209 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hooke-join.jpg\" alt=\"Hooke\u2019s Join\" width=\"269\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Hooke\u2019s joint is used to connect two shafts, which are intersecting at a small angle, as shown in Fig. The end of each shaft is forked to U-type and each fork provides two bearings for the arms of a cross. The arms of the cross are perpendicular to each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motion is transmitted from the driving shaft to driven shaft through a cross. The inclination of the two\u00a0shafts may be constant, but in actual practice it varies, when the motion is transmitted.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applications :<\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Transmission of power from the gear box to the differential or back axle of the automobiles.<\/li>\n<li>Transmission of power to different spindles of multiple drilling machine.<\/li>\n<li>Knee joint in milling machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Hooke\u2019s joint as shown in Fig., consists of two forks connected by centre piece, having the shape of a cross or square carrying four trunnions. The ends of the two shafts to be connected together are fitted to the forks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/theory-of-machines\/straight-line-mechanisms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/theory-of-machines\/cam-nomenclature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-the-theory-of-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is the Theory of Machines?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a device to connect two shafts whose axes are neither coaxial nor parallel but intersect at a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,10],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory-of-machines","category-me","tag-hookes-join"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}