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LAB REPORT of Gear Hobbing Machine

The document describes operations performed on a gear hobbing machine, including helical, spur, splines, worm, and involute gear cutting as well as sprocket operations. It provides details on the hobbing process where teeth are cut into material by a hob cutting tool in a series of cuts. The principles of gear hobbing are explained for spur and helical gears. Feed directions and advantages are outlined. Finishing processes like shaving, burnishing, grinding, lapping, and honing are also summarized. The application of gear hobbing is described where the hob and workpiece shafts rotate at a proportional ratio to determine the number of teeth cut.

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LAB REPORT of Gear Hobbing Machine

The document describes operations performed on a gear hobbing machine, including helical, spur, splines, worm, and involute gear cutting as well as sprocket operations. It provides details on the hobbing process where teeth are cut into material by a hob cutting tool in a series of cuts. The principles of gear hobbing are explained for spur and helical gears. Feed directions and advantages are outlined. Finishing processes like shaving, burnishing, grinding, lapping, and honing are also summarized. The application of gear hobbing is described where the hob and workpiece shafts rotate at a proportional ratio to determine the number of teeth cut.

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UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNLOGY

& GSPCT

LAB REPORT

Submitted by: Ahtisham Amjad Dar

Roll No: 2017-Uet-Gspct-Mech-02

Submitted to: Engr. Umer Farooq

Subject: Gear Hobbing Machine (Workshop)

Department: BSC Mech. Eng. Technology

Session: 2017-2021
OPERATIONS THAT’S WE PERFORMED
ON GEAR HOBBING MACHINE

Sr.# LIST OF PRACTICAL


1. Helical Gears Operations
2. Spur Gear Operations
3. Splines Operations
4. Worm Gears Operations
5. Involute Gears Operations
6. Sprockets Operations
Gear hobbing machine:
Hobbing is a machining process for gear
cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets on a hobbing machine, which is a
special type of milling machine. The teeth or splines of the gear are progressively cut
into the material by a series of cuts made by a cutting tool called a hob.

Hob:
Principle of gear Hobbing:
I. From a, b, c, d, draw tangents to base circle marked a1, b2, c3.
II. When equally spaced teeth of hob contacts the w/p they cut small flats 1’1’,
2’2’…at right angle to tangents.
III. All the flats will be tangential to desired involute profile
IV. Hob setting for Spur and Helical Gear
V. The thread on hob should be located along the axis of gear blank for cutting
spur gears and along the helix of gear for cutting helical gear.
VI. If  is lead angle of hob and  is helix angle of gear the angle (90-S) set
between axis of hob and axis of gear as following For spur gear : 90-  For
helical gear : 90-(+  ) (when hands are different) 90-(-  ) (when hands are
same)
VII. It is preferable to use hob and gear of same hand.
VIII. If the hands of hob and workpiece are opposite, the feed rate has to be slightly
reduced and this may affect the surface finish.

Feed directions in Hobbing:


a. Axial feeding
b. Radial Feeding
c. Tangential feeding
d. Combined radial and axial feeding
e. Diagonal Feeding

Advantage of Gear Hobbing


I. Higher rate of production.
II. The method is versatile and used for producing variety of jobs.
III. Teeth produced with profile that is more accurate.
IV. Same cutter is used to cut gears having same module.
V. Process is also suitable for non-metallic materials. Limitations:
VI. Gear hobbing cannot be used for producing internal gears without use of
special tooling.
VII. Hobbing cannot be used for cutting Herringbone gears.
Gear Finishing Operation
 Gear Shaving
 Gear Burnishing
 Gear Grinding
 Gear lapping
 Honing

Gear Shaving:
Gear teeth finished by rotate it at high speed in mesh and
pressed against a hardened gear-shaving cutter.

Gear Burnishing:
Gear Burnishing is a cold working process in which high
spots on unhardened gears are plastically deformed to produce smooth and accurate
surface. During burnishing operation, burnishing gears are fed inward toward
workpiece and made to turn few rotation in each direction.

Gear grinding:
It is suitable for finishing of hardened gears which cannot be
finished by shaving or Burnishing. Gear teeth grinding processes:
1) Form Wheel grinding.
2) Threaded wheel grinding.
3) Generation grinding Form Wheel grinding.
Grinding wheel shaped to the exact profile of gear tooth space like disc type form
milling cutter.

Gear Lapping:
Lapping is done on generally gears having hardness more
than 45 RC to remove burrs, abrasions from the surface and to remove small errors
caused by heat treatment
Honing:
Honing is suitable for finishing of heat treated gears.

Application in Gear Hobbing Machine


The two shafts (Hob spindle and work piece spindle) are rotated at a proportional
ratio. This determines the number of teeth on the blank; for example, if the gear ratio
is 40:1 the hob rotates 40 times to each turn of the blank, which produces 40 teeth in
the blank.

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