Abstract: In pressure forming splines or teeth in the sleeve of a clutch hub and the like, a rotatable toothed mandrel and a pair of sliding toothed racks are offset relative to one another such that when the sleeve of the clutch hub blank is placed on the mandrel, a ring-shaped lip portion of the sleeve adjacent the open sleeve end is not intermeshed between the mandrel teeth and rack teeth and thus is not splined and such that a transition region between the cylindrical oil seal surface and the sleeve is splined. The clutch hub thus includes splines on the sleeve terminating short of the open sleeve end in an unsplined ring-shaped lip portion and extending at the other end contiguous with splines formed in the transition region between the oil seal surface and sleeve. A clutch hub can thereby be manufactured having, in combination, a longitudinal tooth taper (bellmouth) within required close tolerances, e.g., within 0.010 inch, preferably within 0.

Abstract: Thin wall, torque sensitive pinion gears, sun gears or other such workparts are driven in rotation in a fixture during honing of the internal diameter to minimize out-of-roundness. The fixture for honing multiple workparts at a time includes a workpart driving means having multiple workpart driving gears each meshed with a respective one of the workparts. Each workpart driving gear is mounted on a hollow rotatable bushing arranged end-to-end with respect to adjacent bushings and dog-bone shaped driver members interconnect and are drivingly received in adjacent bushings. Means is connected to one of the dog-bone shaped members to rotate same and thereby cause the workpart driver gears to rotate the workparts in unison during honing.

Abstract: In pressure forming splines or teeth in the sleeve of a clutch hub and the like, a rotatable toothed mandrel and a pair of sliding toothed racks are offset relative to one another such that when the sleeve of the clutch hub blank is placed on the mandrel, a ring-shaped lip portion of the sleeve adjacent the open sleeve end is not intermeshed between the mandrel teeth and rack teeth and thus is not splined and such that a transition region between the cylindrical oil seal surface and the sleeve is splined. The clutch hub thus includes splines on the sleeve terminating short of the open sleeve end in an unsplined ring-shaped lip portion and extending at the other end contiguous with splines formed in the transition region between the oil seal surface and sleeve. A clutch hub can thereby be manufactured having, in combination, a longitudinal tooth taper (bellmouth) within required close tolerances, e.g., within 0.010 inch, preferably within 0.