Joachim Uhing

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Joachim Uhing (born January 28, 1905 , † November 11, 1984 ) was a German engineer and inventor of the rolling ring drive .

Life

Uhing studied mechanical engineering and electrical engineering at the higher mechanical engineering school in Leipzig from 1926 to 1928. On March 23, 1943, he founded an engineering office in Kiel, the forerunner of Joachim Uhing GmbH & Co. KG. From 1973 to 2017 the company in Mielkendorf has been based in Flintbek near Kiel since 2017. Uhings trigger for economic success in 1952 was his invention of the rolling ring drive . With this non-positive screw drive it was possible to convert the constant rotary motion of a smooth shaft into a continuous back and forth motion with continuously variable speed and stroke length in a purely mechanical way. These properties made the rolling ring drive particularly suitable for laying in winding technology. In the wire and cable industry, the global triumph of the rolling ring drive began with the previously rigid systems, which had to be completely replaced when the stroke or incline was changed and caused long machine downtimes. Today, rolling ring drives are used wherever thread-like material has to be wound up.

Another Uhing development was the drive nut, in principle a rolling ring drive without the possibility of changing the pitch value and pitch direction. Due to its principle-related backlash, it quickly became the standard drive for a wide variety of measuring machines.

The preoccupation with force-fit products ultimately led to the development of a line of tensioning and clamping elements that enable the fixation of spools, rollers and other elements to be fixed on smooth shafts without tools.

Joachim Uhing has received several awards for his inventive achievements. In 1976, at the international inventors' fair in Geneva, he was awarded a gold medal for a friction-locked conveyor system . In 2009 he was posthumously awarded the Technical Achievement Award from WCTI (Wire & Cable Technology International) for the invention of the rolling ring drive.

literature

  • WCTI Technical Achievements Awards , in: Wire and Cable Technology International, November / December 2009, pp. 44–45 ( online edition )
  • Johannes Volmer, Wolfgang Rößner, Günther Kunad, Leo Hagedorn: In Memoriam Joachim Uhing 1905-1984 , in: Mechanism and machine theory, Pergamon Press, Oxford, Vol. 21 (1986), 1, p. 101

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personal data
SURNAME Uhing, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1905
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1984