Abstract: There is provided a turbine including a hub body including a shaft for transmitting the torque generated by the turbine to a driven machine, a plurality of turbine blades carried by the hub body and rotatable about their longitudinal axes, an adjusting body in an interior of the hub body, arranged as a spherical link chain extending coaxially to the shaft and rotatable about a shaft axis of the shaft, and a guide rod chain for each of the plurality of turbine blades, including a smooth spherical shell having a uniform surface and two guide rods, including a first guide rod having a first end linked to the adjusting body via a swivel joint and a second guide rod having a first end linked to a second end of the first guide rod via the swivel joint.

Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine, especially for a flow power plant, comprising the following features: a hub body which comprises a shaft for transmitting the torque generated by the turbine to a driven machine; a plurality of turbine blades which are carried by the hub body and are twistable about their longitudinal axes; an adjusting body is provided in the interior of the hub body, arranged in the manner of a spherical link chain which extends coaxially to the shaft and is twistable about the shaft axis; a guide rod chain for each blade, comprising two guide rods, namely a first guide rod whose first end is linked to the adjusting body via a swivel joint, and a second guide rod whose first end is linked to the second end of the first guide rod via a swivel joint, and whose second end is twistably mounted on the hub body about the longitudinal axis of the respective blade; wherein the adjusting body comprises a drive pin and a spherical shell, and at least the first guide rod is spherically arranged a