Spur Gears are the simplest type of gear. The calculations for spur gears are also simple and they are used as the basisfor the calculations for other types of gears. This section introduces calculation methods of standard spur gears, profileshifted spur gears, and linear racks. The standard spur gear is a non-profile-shifted spur gear.(1) Standard Spur GearFigure 4.1 shows the meshing of standard spur gears. The meshing of standard spur gears means the reference circlesof two gears contact and roll with each other. The calculation formulas are in Table 4.1.Fig. 4.1 The Meshing of Standard Spur Gears( α=20, z1=12, z2=24, x1=x2=0 )
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Note, that the number of teeth will probably not be integer values when using the formulas in Table 4.2. In this case,it will be necessary to resort to profile shifting or to employ helical gears to obtain as near a transmission ratioas possible.(2) Profile Shifted Spur GearFigure 4.2 shows the meshing of a pair of profile shifted gears. The key items in profile shifted gears are the operating(working) pitch diameters (dw) and the working (operating) pressure angle (αw). These values are obtainable from themodified center distance and the following formulas :In the meshing of profile shifted gears, it is the operating pitch circle that is in contact and roll on each other thatportrays gear action. Table 4.3 presents the calculations where the profile shift coefficient has been set at x1 and x2 at the beginning. This calculation is based on the idea that the amount of the tip and root clearance should be 0.25m.Fig. 4.2 The Meshing of Profile Shifted Gears( α=20, z1=12, z2=24, x1=+0.6, x2=+0.36 )
(3) Rack and Spur GearTable 4.5 presents the method for calculating the mesh of a rack and spur gear.Figure 4.3 (1) shows the the meshing of standard gear and a rack. In this mesh, the reference circle of the gear touchesthe pitch line of the rack.Figure 4.3 (2) shows a profile shifted spur gear, with positive correction xm, meshed with a rack. The spur gear hasa larger pitch radius than standard, by the amount xm. Also, the pitch line of the rack has shifted outward by the amount xm.Table 4.5 presents the calculation of a meshed profile shifted spur gear and rack. If the profile shift coefficient x1 is 0, then it is the case of a standard gear meshed with the rack.
Gear Generator is a tool for creating involute spur gears and download them in DXF or SVG format. In addition it let you compose full gear layouts with connetcted gears to design multiple gears system with control of the input/output ratio and rotation speed. Gears can be animated with various speed to demonstrate working mechanism.
Why this tool was created? Just for fun. I'm working on a hobby project, a scale construction machine, which needed some spur gears, and I quickly made a simple spur gear creator script in Javascript with SVG output. As it was done, I couldn't stop, and I added more and more features, and finally I got this tool. It was a pleasure to code the whole thing, I'm a bit sad it is already done.
Cars, clocks, and can openers, along with many other devices, use gears in their mechanisms to transmit power through rotation. Gears are a type of circular mechanical device with teeth that mesh to transmit rotation across axes, and they are a very valuable mechanism to know about as their applications range far and wide. In this Instructable I'll go over some basic gear concepts and interesting mechanisms, and hopefully you'll be able to design your own gear systems and make stuff like this!
There are a handful of different types of gears and gear mechanisms, and this Instructable definitely doesn't cover all of them. I hope that this guide will give you a sense for how you can use gears to improve your mechanical design techniques. In the next few steps I'll be starting with some of the simplest types of gears and gear mechanisms and going into some of the more complicated, interesting ones as well. If you're really interested in learning more, I would suggest you check out this book, 507 Mechanical Movements, as it comes with a lot of really neat mechanisms!
A planetary gearbox is a specific type of gearbox that uses internal gears. The main components of a planetary gearbox include the sun gear, which is in the center of the gearbox, usually connected to the input shaft of the system. The sun gear rotates a few planet gears, which all simultaneously rotate a large internal gear, called the ring or annular gear. The planet gears are usually constrained by a carrier to keep them from spinning around the sun gear. Planetary gearboxes can take on higher laods than most gearboxes because the load is distributed among all of the planet gears, as opposed to just one spur gear. These gearboxes are great for large gear reductions in small spaces, but can be costly and need to be well lubricated because of their design complexity.
A worm gear is a gear driven by a worm, which is a small, screw-like piece that meshes with the gear. The gear rotates on an axis perpendicular, but on a different plane than, the worm. With each rotation of the worm, the gear rotates by one tooth. This means that the gear ratio of a worm gear is always N:1, where N is the number of teeth the gear has. While most gears have circular pitch, a worm has linear pitch, which is the distance from one turn in the spiral to the next.
Worm gears can thus be used to drastically reduce the speed and increase the torque of a system in only one step in a small amount of space. A worm gear mechanism could create a gear ratio of 40:1 with just a 40 tooth gear and a worm, while when using spur gears to do the same, you would need a small gear meshing wit another 40 times its size.
Because the worm is a spiral, worm gears are almost impossible to back-drive. What this means is that if you tried spinning the system by its output shaft (on the worm gear) instead of its input shaft (on the worm), then you would not be able to. When a worm gear drives, the spiral spins and slowly inches each tooth forward. If you back-drove the system, the gear would be pushing against the side of the threads without actually turning them. This makes worm gears very valuable in mechanical systems because the axle cannot be manipulated by an external force, and it reduces the backlash and the play in the system.
Cage and peg gears are a certain style of gear mechanisms that are much easier to make, because they can be made cheaply out of wooden boards and dowels. However, they are not very good for high speed or high load situations because they are usually made with a lot of backlash and wiggle-room. Cage and peg gears are mostly used to transmit rotation between perpendicular axes. A peg gear is basically a disc with short pegs sticking out from it around its circumference (to form a spur gear), or on its face parallel to the axis of rotation (to form a bevel gear). The pegs in these gears act as the teeth, and contact one another to spin each of the gears. A cage consists of two discs with pegs running between them parallel to the axis of rotation. A cage gear can be used like a worm gear, as each of the dowels on the gear contact the pegs on a normal peg gear. However, this system can be driven from either end.
A ratchet is a fairly simple mechanism that only allows a gear to turn in one direction. A ratchet system consists of a gear (sometimes the teeth are different than the standard profile) with a small lever or latch that rotates about a pivot point and catches in the teeth of the gear. The latch is designed and oriented such that if the gear were to turn in one direction, the gear could spin freely and the latch would be pushed up by the teeth, but if the gear were to spin in the other direction, the latch would catch in the teeth of the gear and prevent it from moving.
While you can purchase gears of specific sizes from vendors, there are also situations in which you may want to design your own gears for a specific purpose or so that you can modify them to create non-standard gear parts. Here's some software to help you get started. If you know of any more, let me know and I'll add them!:
This is a nice write-up but I am looking for something similar. Maybe you guys have some ideas. What I am looking to do is drive a parallel set of shafts in the same direction at the same speed... easy right?.. use a worm gear you say?... one problem... the material I'm conveying, a metal sheet of varying lengths, and thicknesses, seems to act like a chain when it crosses the shafts and wreaks havoc on the system. How do you drive these shaft commonly... if possible? Positioning is quite important here as well, it seems as if .002 tolerance is the max allowed 'give' in order for the position of sheet to be correct at the final destination. Thanks!
Non round gears is a multi step process. First, you want to find the shape that you want, it can be almost anything but don't have your lines come back on themselves, ie, always go forward with your pencil, no back wards drawing. lets use a square for example, Next I use a online utility that I posted a link to in several replies in this 'ible. and I create a design of a rack and pinion using the size of teeth I like. Next (3) I print out the rack portion so I basically have a straight edge of gear teeth. Next (4) I start at one edge of my square and with the top of my teeth-edge lined up with the edge of the square, I trace my teeth onto the square. at the corners, you need to pay attention to the size of the spacing when you trace around the edge so that the width of the tooth or valley is consistant with all of the rest.
Thanks for the advice! What kind of design would you be looking for apart from the gear ratio and terminology? Are you looking to design gears from scratch, or more how to use the software well to create the gears?
Follow this link _cutting/template.html and read the stuff at the bottom of the page, It explains What; how to find; how to calculate; and design the different parts of gears such as Tooth Spacing - Contact angles, spokes, pitch diameter, line of contact, plate mode, etc. BUT, to answer your question directly: The pitch diameter is the effective diameter of the gear, so to figure it out, draw a circle around your gear but the circle goes in the middle of the teeth, if your teeth were 1 inch long, then that circle would go thru the teeth at the 1/2 inch mark. That circle is your pitch diameter of the gear. follow the link and read. 2ff7e9595c
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