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Gear Making: Workshop Practice ME-105

This document provides an overview of gear making and manufacturing processes. It begins with introducing the functions of gears and different gear types. It then defines key gear nomenclature. The document focuses on three conventional gear cutting processes: milling, hobbing, and shaping. For each process, it describes the basic cutting mechanism and illustrates the process. The goal of the document is to explain fundamental concepts and common manufacturing techniques for making gears.

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Gear Making: Workshop Practice ME-105

This document provides an overview of gear making and manufacturing processes. It begins with introducing the functions of gears and different gear types. It then defines key gear nomenclature. The document focuses on three conventional gear cutting processes: milling, hobbing, and shaping. For each process, it describes the basic cutting mechanism and illustrates the process. The goal of the document is to explain fundamental concepts and common manufacturing techniques for making gears.

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Gear Making

Workshop Practice
ME-105

Department of Mechanical Engineering


College of E&ME, NUST Pakistan
Contents
• Functions of Gears
• Gear Types
• Gear Nomenclature
• Conventional Manufacturing Processes
Milling

Milling is a cutting process that uses a milling cutter to remove


material from the surface of a work piece
The milling cutter is a rotary cutting tool, often with multiple cutting
points. As opposed to drilling, where the tool is advanced along its
rotation axis, the cutter in milling is usually moved perpendicular to
its axis so that cutting occurs on the circumference of the cutter.
As the milling cutter enters the work piece, the cutting edges (flutes
or teeth) of the tool repeatedly cut into and exit from the material,
shaving off chips from the work piece with each pass.
The cutting action is shear deformation; material is pushed off the
work piece in tiny clumps that hang together to a greater or lesser
extent (depending on the material) to form chips.
GEAR FUNDAMENTALS
What Is A Gear ?
• A rotating machine part/element with teeth cut into it which is used
to:
– Transmit torque or
– Alter velocity or
– Change direction of motion or
– Perform any combination of above functions

• A gear meshes with another gear(s) to form a transmission system.

• Relative motion between gears take place due to meshing of gear


teeth.
Gear Types - Illustrated
Gear Nomenclature

CHECK WHAT IS GEAR MODULE !


GEAR CUTTING
Gear Hobbing
• Relatively inexpensive yet fairly accurate, hobbing employs helical
cutters to cut teeth into a blank gear.

• The helical cutter called ‘hob’ rotates on an axis perpendicular to


the axis of blank gear.

• The hob moves radially to the depth of teeth and is then fed axially
along the width of the gear teeth.

• The hob and blank gear rotate in constant timed relation with each
other that determines the number of teeth being cut into the gear.
Gear Hobbing - Illustrated
Gear Shaping
• A gear of desired teeth profile is used to cut similar shaped teeth
into the blank gear.

• The cutting gear rotates along with the blank gear while
simultaneously reciprocating parallel to the cut teeth.

• Unlike hobbing, shaping is capable of producing internal gears.

• Worm gears cannot be produced with shaping.


Gear Shaping - Illustrated

Pinon Type Cutter Rack Type Cutter


Gear Milling - Illustrated
THE END

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