Gear Manufacturing Methods—Forming the （齿轮制造Methods-Forming）.pdf

Gear Manufacturing Methods - Forming The Teeth by National Broa.ch and Machine, MI. Clemens, Michigan 40 Gear Techno.logy The forming ·of gear teeth hastraditionally been a time- increased beyond the theoretical outside diameter to provide consuming heavy stock removal operation in which dose additional stock for the chamfer. tooth size, shape, nmout and spacing accuracy are required, If the fillet produced by hobbingor shaping is too high, This is true whether the teethare tinished by a second form- finishing too] interferenceand breakage can result. and the ing operation or at shaving operation. accuracy Q·f the produced proHle can be affected. If the hob Originally gear teeth were produeed with .form-milling cut- or shaper cutter tooth has a full radius form on the tip, max- terson mj[)ing machines equipped with index heads. Later imum wear life of the tools is provided .. the popular gear hobbing process, Fig. 1, was developed to Referring to Fig..3, it can be seen that forming of the teeth produce external gears. The shaper-cutting method was with a gear-shaped shaper cutter or