Abstract: A method for dressing a tool of a gear grinding machine, including a workpiece holder and a tool holder, is provided. The tool holder, arranged on a machining head, is rotatable about a first axis of rotation, and is linearly movable via a first linear axis of movement, wherein a workpiece clamped in the workpiece holder can be machined by a tool clamped in the tool holder. The machine furthermore includes a dressing unit with a dressing tool holder rotatable about a second axis of rotation, wherein a dressing tool accommodated in the dressing tool holder is used for dressing the tool clamped in the tool holder. During the dressing operation the machining head is pivoted about the swivel axis in dependence on a tool profile and is linearly moved with the first linear axis of movement.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a production system having at least one machine tool and at least one pallet handling system for the automatic loading of at least one machine tool. The at least one pallet handling system has a storage unit associated with at least one machine tool and having one or more shelf modules. The storage unit additionally includes at least one rotatable storage tower.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gear cutting machine, having a workpiece mount and a first tool mount for a respective workpiece and tool. The first tool mount can be set into rotation about a first axis of rotation of the gear cutting machine and the workpiece mount can be set into rotation about a second axis of rotation of the gear cutting machine. The first tool mount is arranged at a machining head which is movable parallel to the second axis of rotation of the workpiece mount at a machining head over at least one first linear movement axis of the gear cutting machine. In accordance with the present disclosure, the gear cutting machine furthermore has a second machining head having a second tool mount which is movable over a second linear movement axis parallel to the first linear movement axis independently of the first machining head.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of measuring and inspecting a workpiece belonging to a gear pair, wherein the method is carried out on a gear cutting machine producing the workpiece, wherein a mating test piece mounted at the working head, in particular at the cutting head, is moved in the direction of the workpiece clamped in the workpiece mount of the machine table until the gear pair is in engagement and the corresponding working axial spacing is reached, the workpiece is driven via the drive movement of the mating test piece of the gear pair, the rotational position of the workpiece to be measured is recorded and the detected actual position is compared with a reference position and at least one value characterizing the rolling gear deviation of the workpiece is calculated while taking account of the comparison made.

Abstract: The invention relates to method of manufacturing a multiple of identical gears by means of cutting machining, in particular hob cutting or hob grinding, on a gear-cutting machine, wherein workpieces are machined by means of a rotating tool which is brought into engagement with the workpiece via the control of NC axes of the gear cutting machine. In accordance with the invention, deviations from workpiece to workpiece are compensated by a respective different control of at least one of the NC axes of the gear cutting machine.

Abstract: Tool arrangement for the production of helical teeth in gear wheels, wherein a roughing hob (20), at least one deburring cutter (16, 18) and a finishing hob (12) can be fastened on a common mandrel (14) in a predetermined rotational position relative to one another, and the teeth of the finishing hob, which are situated along a helical line, each have a different cross section such that the engagement angle of the right or left flanks decreases continuously starting from a maximum value of the first tooth up to the last tooth, and the maximum engagement angle of the right flanks of the first or last tooth coincides with the minimum engagement angle of the left flanks, and vice versa.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for machining composite components in a CNC controlled machining station. In accordance with the present disclosure, a machining tool is guided along a preset tool edge by means of a measuring system, wherein it simultaneously carries out the machining operation, while the CNC control program to control the machining tool is generated in accordance with the measured result. The present disclosure furthermore relates to an apparatus for the carrying out of the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gear cutting machine for the grinding of external profiles and/or internal profiles of workpieces having at least one machining head which can be rotated about an axis and which has a grinding tool, and having a dressing unit. In accordance with the invention, the dressing unit is supported in the region of the pivot axis of the machining head such that it is pivotable about the common pivot axis together with the machining head and such that it can be moved along the pivot axis toward the grinding tool to be dressed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of inspecting gears during their manufacture in the gear cutting machine, wherein the respective workpiece is traveled to by the tool at specific reference points to determine any deviations. The setting of the tool can be corrected by means of these deviations via a control loop.

Abstract: Tool arrangement for the production of helical teeth in gear wheels, wherein a roughing hob (20), at least one deburring cutter (16, 18) and a finishing hob (12) can be fastened on a common mandrel (14) in a predetermined rotational position relative to one another, and the teeth of the finishing hob, which are situated along a helical line, each have a different cross section such that the engagement angle of the right or left flanks decreases continuously starting from a maximum value of the first tooth up to the last tooth, and the maximum engagement angle of the right flanks of the first or last tooth coincides with the minimum engagement angle of the left flanks, and vice versa.

Abstract: A gear shaping machine for the manufacture or machining of gears having a shaping tool and a shaping head bearing the shaping tool, where the shaping head is movable transversely to the shaping direction for the delivering and lifting of the shaping tool to the workpiece. A direct drive is provided for this purpose which moves the shaping head transversely to the shaping direction. Furthermore a corresponding method for the manufacture or machining of gears is described.

Abstract: A gear shaping machine for the manufacture or machining of gears having a shaping tool and a shaping head bearing the shaping tool, where the shaping head is movable transversely to the shaping direction for the delivering and lifting of the shaping tool to the workpiece. A direct drive is provided for this purpose which moves the shaping head transversely to the shaping direction. Furthermore a corresponding method for the manufacture or machining of gears is described.

Abstract: A workpiece fixture for gear cutting machines and an interchangeable part for said workpiece fixture are adapted to each other. One end of the interchangeable part is used for fixation to the workpiece fixture and has on the one hand a face with at least one ramp extending in the circumferential direction relative to a rotation axis, and a locking element, the locking element cooperating with a locking element of the workpiece fixture so as to permit separation of the locked interchangeable part from the workpiece fixture only if a minimum force is overcome. The workpiece fixture has for its part in addition to the aforementioned locking element a surface formed cylindrically, at least in parts, relative to a rotation axis as a radial bearing surface for the interchangeable part, and a stop face or at least one radially protruding stop pin which cooperates axially with the ramp of the interchangeable part.

Abstract: During operation of a gear shaping machine comprising a thrust spindle which accommodates a cutting wheel and is guided and disposed in a guidance on the machine housing, the radial force acting on the cutting wheel during operation is detected by means of at least one sensor disposed in the area of the guidance, which detects the changes of the radial force occurring during operational wear of the cutting wheel and uses increases of the radial force, beyond the tolerance typical for this machine, as a signal for influencing the operation of the gear shaping machine, e.g. for stopping the machine.

Abstract: A gear-cutting machine contains one driving motor (28) with a corresponding actuator (26a, 26c . . . ) for each of various adjusting axes (B, C, X, Z . . . ). The actuators are supplied from a common dc intermediate circuit (24) and controlled by a controller (30). The dc intermediate circuit (24) is supplied by a rectifier circuit (22) from the network (20). For defined stopping of at least some of the driving motors (28) of the adjusting axes an emergency power supply is provided. The emergency power supply contains an ac motor (34) with a disk flywheel (36) mounted on the output shaft (38) thereof. In generating service of the ac motor (34) the latter provides direct-voltage energy to the ac intermediate circuit (34) via the actuator/rectifier (40). This energy suffices for at least some of the driving motors (28) to be brought into a state of rest by their corresponding actuators in controlled fashion. This avoids errors when operation of the machine is continued.

Abstract: A method is described for hob grinding helical gearwheels by continuous diagonal hobbing using a tool in the form of a substantially involute worm whose active length is greater than the length of the working area and whose center distance from the gearwheel is changed during its feed motion in the diagonal direction from the axial and tangential directions to generate lateral crowning. The pressure angle of the right or left flanks decreases continuously from a maximum value starting at one end of the worm toward the other end, whereby the maximum pressure angle of the right flanks at one end of the worm coincides with the minimum pressure angle of the left flanks, and vice versa.

Abstract: A conveyor belt transporting apparatus for conveying carriers includes at least one conveyor belt frictionally engaged with the carrier, the conveyor belt formed of two belt layers, one lying on top of the other and extending between pulleys. A friction finger on the carrier is in frictional engagement with the belt by extending between its layers in frictional contact with both layers. Frictional contact force between the belt layers and the friction finger is variable by a moveable tension finger controllable by an automatic release element in response to blockage of movement of the carrier along the conveyor system. When the motion of a carrier is blocked by a stopped carrier or other impediment ahead of it, the release element is moved to release the friction force on the carrier finger engaging the belt. Verticle and horizontal guide and support rollers guide the carrier and support its weight.

Abstract: In a process and apparatus for tooth-flank grinding of gearwheels, the opposing flanks of two adjacent teeth are initially ground simultaneously. In the terminal stages of the process, each flank is ground separately. A slight rocking motion of the gearwheel, provided by pivoted pawl in an indexing wheel, applies the grinding tool first to one tooth flank and then to the other. Any undesirable rounding off of the tooth flanks occurring during simultaneous tooth flank grinding can thus be corrected.

Abstract: A dressing tool for a gear machine grinding wheel has a disc with a notch reproducing the tooth space of the gear ground by the machine. The flanks of the space open radially inward into a bore. A strip coated with diamond granules is removably affixed to the sides of the notch and looped around a clamp bolt in the bore which holds the strip taut. The tool, when dressing the wheel, is guided in the same manner as a gear when being ground.