Gear Shaving Patents (Class 409/37)
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Patent number: 11242850Abstract: A gear assembly of a scavenge oil pump for a vehicle is provided. The assembly comprises a first pair of meshing gears comprising a first drive gear disposed about a drive shaft and a first slave gear disposed about a slave drive in parallel relationship with the drive shaft. The first drive gear and first slave gear are in rotational meshing cooperation. The assembly comprises a second pair of meshing gears comprising a second drive gear disposed about the drive shaft and a second slave gear disposed about the slave drive. The second drive gear and second slave gear are in rotational meshing cooperation. The second pair of meshing gears is disposed linearly adjacent to the first pair of meshing gears. The first pair and the second pair of meshing gears have about ? of a tooth spacing relative to each other for torque transmission of scavenge oil.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Sean M. McGowan, Mark R. Claywell, Chung Y. Wei
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Patent number: 11110529Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for chip-removing gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by means of a tool, where a rotation of the tool takes place in generating coupling with a rotation of the workpiece, in particular gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by skiving, wherein the gear manufacturing machining is carried out in a plurality of machining steps, wherein the center distance and/or a rotational angle between the workpiece and the tool superimposed on the generating coupling is/are changed between two machining steps, so that the tool will cut in the machining steps a respective contour that extends alternately closer to a first and a second flank of the target toothing of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the same rotational angle may be used for a plurality of machining steps taking place closer to a second flank.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: LIEBHERR-VERZAHNTECHNIK GMBHInventor: Martin Hipke
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Patent number: 10293423Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by a diagonal-generating method, in which the workpiece is subjected to gear tooth machining by the rolling off of a tool, wherein an axial feed of the tool takes place during the machining with a diagonal ratio given by the ratio between the axial feed of the tool and the axial feed of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the tool has a conical basic shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbHInventor: Robert Wuerfel
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Patent number: 9873160Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by a diagonal-generating method, in which the workpiece is subjected to gear tooth machining by the rolling off of a tool, wherein an axial feed of the tool takes place during the machining with a diagonal ratio given by the ratio between the axial feed of the tool and the axial feed of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the diagonal ratio is changed within the course of the machining of a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbHInventor: Robert Wuerfel
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Patent number: 8939687Abstract: A device for cutting teeth in gear blanks by hob peeling, the device having a workpiece spindle for holding the gear blank, the workpiece spindle being rotationally drivable about a workpiece rotational axis, the device having a tool spindle which carries a peeling wheel having cutting edges and which is rotationally drivable about a tool rotational axis, wherein the tool spindle and the workpiece spindle may be positioned relative to one another at a fixed or variable axis intersection angle, and for the purpose of forward feed and infeed, the tool spindle is movable relative to the workpiece spindle in the radial direction and in the axial direction with reference to the workpiece rotational axis by means of positioning drives, and the device having an electronic control device for controlling the positioning drives and rotationally driving the tool spindle and the workpiece spindle at a specified rotational speed ratio, optionally with a changing phase position.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Heinemann, Mario Schulz
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Publication number: 20130336739Abstract: The invention concerns a method of generating gear teeth, wherein a workpiece which is to receive a toothed profile and a cutting tool are advanced toward each other in a rolling feed motion until each tooth flank of the gear profile has been generated after several passes of the tool, wherein in each pass a cut surface containing at least one flank cut is generated on the workpiece, wherein an auxiliary motion is superimposed on the rolling motion, which has the effect that the flank cuts generated in at least two immediately consecutive passes will be connected to each other. In addition, the invention also concerns a gear-cutting machine with the requisite control features to perform the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBHInventors: Juergen Kreschel, Claus Kobialka
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Publication number: 20120282055Abstract: A skiving tool for manufacturing a rotationally symmetrical periodical structure on a work piece by means of a power skiving method. The skiving tool comprises a base body comprising a central rotation axis and a plurality of receiving openings and a plurality of cutter bars, fewer than or equal to the number of receiving openings. Each of the receiving openings has an elongate shape having a longitudinal axis, and the receiving openings can be arranged uniformly around the central rotation axis. The longitudinal axes of the receiving openings are generators of a rotation hyperboloid, which is arranged rotationally symmetrical to the central rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Hartmut Marx, Olaf Vogel, Martin Zagromski
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Patent number: 7673376Abstract: A device for fabricating a toothing at an inner facing edge of a three-dimensional pot-shaped body produced by forming and fine blanking exclusively implemented by cutting and/or shaving with a fine blanking die and/or a shaving device. The device includes a base plate and a pressure pad between which the pot-shaped body is receivable. A pilot die is received within a hollow space of a die and is biased in an advancement direction of the die such that a portion of the pilot die protrudes from the hollow space and contacts the base of said pot-shaped body before the die when the die is advanced in the working direction. A groove is thereby created between said curved edge of the pot-shaped body and the pilot die for leading a fine blanking burr or shaving chips into the recess of the pot-shaped body. Further advancement of the die fixing and pressing the burr or the chips into the recess.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Feintool Intellectual Property AGInventor: Paul Frauchiger
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Patent number: 7458157Abstract: A method and a tool for fabricating a toothing at a three-dimensional body produced by forming and fine blanking, especially an attachment for car seat components or the like produced out of a flat strip, wherein the flat strip by forming and fine blanking in a tool is formed into a pot-shaped body with inner forms and a substantially evenly curved edge. Afterwards, a toothing is fabricated into the edge radially extending to the inner side of the body. The toothing in the edge of the pot-shaped body is exclusively produced by cutting and/or shaving with a fine blanking die and/or a shaving device, and a burr and/or shaving chips developing during cutting and/or shaving are pressed into a recess in the base of the pot-shaped body allocated to the toothing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Feintool Intellectual Property AGInventor: Paul Frauchiger
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Patent number: 7309197Abstract: An internal gear shaving machine 1 which brings a shaving cutter 3 and an internal gear held by a workpiece chuck 2 into engagement with a crossed axes angle, and subjects the tooth flanks of the internal gear to final machining while it rotationally drives at least one of the shaving cutter 3 and the workpiece chuck 2. The workpiece chuck 2 and shaving cutter 3 are supported movably toward and away from each other in a vertical direction with the workpiece chuck 2 higher and supported movably in the horizontal direction relative to each other. The workpiece chuck 3 is constituted to hold the outer circumferential surface of the internal gear with the axis of rotation of the internal gear oriented in a up-down direction so that shavings produced during processing by the shaving cutter can fall downwardly from the internal gear.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki MFG. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Taki, Ryoji Yoshida, Masaaki Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 6839953Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a gear component. The apparatus includes a plurality of tooling stocks movable relative to a base. The tooling stocks function to retain a component, as well as operably driving a combination hob/shaver tool and a combination chamfer/debut tool. The apparatus reduces the number of machines required to complete the gear component as well as reducing the cycle time for complete component manufacture. In this way, a more efficient manufacturing system is provided, whereby capital investment and operational costs are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2004Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Magna Drivetrain of America, Inc.Inventors: Brian M. Fitzgerald, Jeffrey A. Rynders
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Patent number: 6757949Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a gear component. The apparatus includes a plurality of tooling stocks movable relative to a base. The tooling stocks function to retain a component, as well as operably driving a combination hob/shaver tool and a combination chamfer/debur tool. The apparatus reduces the number of machines required to complete the gear component as well as reducing the cycle time for complete component manufacture. In this way, a more efficient manufacturing system is provided, whereby capital investment and operational costs are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: New Venture Gear, Inc.Inventors: Brian M. Fitzgerald, Jeffrey A. Rynders
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Patent number: 5890950Abstract: A method for shaving and shave grinding tooth flanks of cylindrical workpiece gear wheels, especially, flank-line modified gear wheels, and for profiling tools needed for shave-grinding cylindrical workpiece gear wheels. During the machining of gear wheels, certain areas of the gear wheel need to be machined more so than other areas, meaning that some areas require more material to be removed than other areas. As a result, certain areas of the tool are not uniformly worn, but rather the area of the tool which removes the most material is worn more quickly than other areas of the tool. Similarly, if certain areas of the gear wheel are harder than other areas, the tool performing the actual machining will wear at a corresponding rate. The present invention avoids such non-uniform wear by providing greater areas of cutting surface on the tool performing the actual machining in the positions which are required to remove the most material, or which are required to machine the hardest surfaces of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Hermann Pfauter GmbH & Co.Inventor: Ingo Faulstich
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Patent number: 5882154Abstract: A gear finishing apparatus with helix compensation is disclosed, in which a helical gear is supported and rotated on a table by a gear holder and a tail stock, a finishing wheel is supported and rotated on a slider that can move toward and away from the finishing wheel in a substantially perpendicular direction to the gear axis, and the table and the slider are structured to relatively reciprocally move in the gear axis, wherein the gear holder comprises a drive motor for rotating a holder shaft for holding the helical gear; and a compensation drive unit by which a motor drum holding the drive motor is rotated about the gear axis, thereby compensating the circumferential speed in accordance with the helix angle of the helical gear during the relative movement of the helical gear and the finishing wheel in an axial direction of the gear and realizing high accuracy in the tooth profile of a helical gear.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihide Mihara, Ryoji Yoshida
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Patent number: 5443338Abstract: A machine for the precision working of tooth flanks of a gear-shaped workpiece. The machine having an internally toothed tool, a tool head angularly adjustable about an axis directed transversely with respect to a workpiece axis for rotationally drivably receiving the tool, means for receiving the workpiece to be machined and means for accomplishing the feeding and working movements of the tool relative to the workpiece in which movable tables existing in conventional machines for receiving the workpieces are avoided with the disadvantages resulting therefrom. The machine also having a frame, a first carriage horizontally movable in an X-direction transversely with respect to a workpiece axis, on which carriage is arranged a second carriage vertically movable in a Y-direction. The tool head is received pivotally about an axis lying in the X-direction in a circular guide in the second carriage. On each side of the tool head there are provided a headstock and a tailstock for receiving the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1994Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Hurth Maschinen und Werkzeuge GmbHInventors: Manfred Huber, Richard Mueller, Anton Schaller
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Patent number: 5377457Abstract: Gear-shaped precision-working tools, in particular shaving gears, capable of providing an optimum machining result only during a portion of their entire lifetime, since during each regrinding (generating), the profile displacement factor, and thus the number of the tooth flanks which engage successively and simultaneously one after the other the workpiece gear to be machined, is changed. This is remedied with the invention in such a manner that the precision-working tool is reground (generated) while maintaining the original number of teeth (z) and the original normal module of the pitch angle (.beta.), the module in transverse section and the base circle diameter are changed in such a manner that little or no change occurs to an original profile displacement factor (x).Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1993Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Hurth Maschinen und Werkzeuge GmbHInventors: Herbert Loos, Manfred Erhardt
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Patent number: 5092720Abstract: A method for determination of longitudinal and profile modification of tool gear tooth (I) which linearly meshes with a gear to be machined, wherein modification parameters are determined from the following relationship: ##EQU1## where: .delta.--the amount of modification of the tool gear tooth (I) in a direction perpendicular to a radius r identifying the location of a contact point on a machining surface (5) relative to a centre (O) of rotation of the tool gear;p--the requisite change in the normal component of the cutting force;G--the rigidity of an arrangement providing for synchronous rotation of the gear blank and the tool gear as reduced to the tool gear axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1991Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: Saratovskoe Spetsialnoe Konstruktorskoe Bjuro Zuboobrabatyvajuschikh Stankov Saratovskogo StankostroitelnogoInventors: Nikolai A. Abysov, Valery A. Bezgodov, Vladimir S. Belgorodsky, Nikolai D. Plotnikov
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Patent number: 5037252Abstract: A multi-spindle synchronous drive unit for synchronously driving a plurality of spindles, includes a plurality of motors for respectively driving the spindles, a plurality of encoders for respectively detecting rotational positions of the motors, a plurality of phase locked loop control units for respectively controlling a drive of the motors and for receiving as feedback signals detection signals respectively output by the encoders, a reference pulse oscillator for outputting a pulse signal, and a plurality of multipliers for multiplying the pulse signal by multiplication factors respectively corresponding to rotational speed ratios of the spindles and for respectively outputting speed command pulse signals to the phase locked loop control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1990Date of Patent: August 6, 1991Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mikio Hasegawa, Takeshi Shiraishi
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Patent number: 4950112Abstract: A machine for the precision working of the tooth flanks of toothed workpieces with a gearlike tool, for example, a shaving gear or the like, which is in a two-flank generating engagement with a workpiece. The workpiece is supported stationarily, however, rotatably on a machine bed and the tool is mounted on a tool head arranged rotationally adjustably about an adjusting axis directed perpendicularly with respect to the tool axis and with respect to the workpiece axis and in a rockable slide member pivotal about a horizontal axis on a cross slide movable in a horizontal direction. The cross slide is guided in a feed slide which is also movable in a horizontal direction. The two directions of movement are offset at 90.degree.. The feed slide is guided in a feed carriage movable in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1989Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventor: Manfred Huber
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Patent number: 4850760Abstract: A workpiece gear to be finished is held in mesh with a gear finishing tool with substantially no backlash therebetween. The gear finishing tool is then driven in mesh with the workpiece gear, and the workpiece gear is rotated in synchronism with the driven movement of the gear finishing tool. Simultaneously, the gear finishing tool and the workpiece gear are moved reciprocally with respect to each other in the direction of a tooth trace for finishing gear surfaces of the workpiece gear. With this gear finishing method, gears can be finished highly accurately with no profile error and at an increased rate. An apparatus for carrying out the gear finishing method is of a simple construction.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1988Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromu Okunishi, Ryuichi Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 4844890Abstract: A composition for use as a grooming and a facial shaving lotion that consists essentially of transterificated wheat germ oil, cocomide dea used as an emulsifier; olet-2 which is a polyethylene glycol ether used as a surfactant and octyl hydroxy-stearate used as a refatting agent. A suitable sunscreening agent such as para-aminobenzoate may be added and perfume to provide a pleasing fragrance. Ches 500 may be added as an emulsion stabilizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1985Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Inventor: Ned Suskin
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Patent number: 4748772Abstract: For the precision working of particularly hardened bevel gears, a method and an apparatus are disclosed in which the workpiece is moved during rolling contact with a bevel-gear-shaped tool having abrasive flanks. Workpiece and tool rotates in meshing relation with their axis spaced and crossed and each connected with a guide gear which also meshing engage and roll with one another. Both the workpiece-tool pair and also the guide-gear pair run each with backlash, however, on opposite flanks, so that the entire combination runs without backlash.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1987Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Herbert Loos, Manfred Erhardt
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Patent number: 4694617Abstract: For the precision working of particularly hardened bevel gears, a method and an apparatus are disclosed in which the workpiece is moved during rolling contact with a bevel-gear-shaped tool having abrasive flanks. Workpiece and tool rotate in meshing relation with their axis spaced and crossed and each connected with a guide gear which also meshing engage and roll with one another. Both the workpiece-tool pair and also the guide-gear pair run each with backlash, however, on opposite flanks, so that the entire combination runs without backlash.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1986Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Herbert Loos, Manfred Erhardt
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Patent number: 4575289Abstract: An apparatus for orienting the position of a machine tool carriage relative to a stationary machine part, which machine tool carriage is movable in a plane defined by orthogonally related X and Y axes. In a first embodiment, the carriage is freely movable on a holder parallel with respect to the X axis and the holder is arranged freely movably in the stationary machine part parallel with respect to the Y axis. In a different embodiment, two pairs of steering knuckle arms are provided and which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the carriage. Each pair of arms consists of two hingedly connected steering knuckle arms which define a right angle with one of each thereof being hinged to the carriage, the other one to the stationary machine part. Two modifications are described for the design of the joints. The apparatus can be used, for example in machines for the precision working of gears.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1984Date of Patent: March 11, 1986Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Heinrich Fischer, Walter Schmidkunz, Johann Spensberger
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Patent number: 4545708Abstract: A method and an apparatus for shaving, rolling or similar ones of the tooth flanks of gears in which a gearlike workpiece which is to be worked is supported stationarily, however, rotatingly and is in a two flank meshing engagement with a toothlike tool. The tool carries out a rectilinear back-and-forth feed movement in a plane, which is parallel with respect to the workpiece axis, a plunge movement perpendicularly with respect to the workpiece axis and a swivelling movement about an axis which is directed transversely with respect to the feed direction. To produce crowned tooth flanks, the plunge feed and the swivelling movement of the tool is changed independently from one another in dependency of the respective position of the tool along the feed path. A rocking device is provided on which is arranged the tool and which also takes part in the back-and-forth feed movement and which furthermore can be driven pivotally about an axis which extends transversely with respect to the feed direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1982Date of Patent: October 8, 1985Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Karl Buschhoff, Heinrich Fischer
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Patent number: 4519733Abstract: A sliding member having two gripping devices removes a finished workpiece from a machine and at the same time introduces a blank workpiece. The sliding member carries out a rectilinear feed and return movement, for which it is hydraulically driven. All movements of the two gripping device systems are controlled by cams, including (1) opening and closing the finished part gripping device when picking up the finished part, (2) swivelling the finished part gripping device approximately 90.degree., (3) opening and closing the blank gripping device as the sliding member is returned, (4) again erecting the finished part gripping device when outside of the machine, and (5) stabilizing the blank and finished part gripping devices during movement of the sliding member.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1982Date of Patent: May 28, 1985Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventor: Hans Gregg
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Patent number: 4502822Abstract: A machine for the precision working of tooth surfaces on toothed workpieces. The machine has a frame, a rotatingly drivable gearlike tool which is arranged substantially above the workpiece on the frame and structure supporting the tool for movement into a tooth engaging relation with the workpiece. Structure is also provided for adjusting a crossed-axes angle between the tool and the workpiece. Guide structure is provided for effecting a change in the spacing between the geometric centers of the tool and the workpiece during a machining operation. The workpiece is stationarily mounted on the frame and all guideways on the frame required for facilitating an adjustment of the tool and during the working operation are arranged substantially above the workpiece. Additional structure is provided for facilitating an adjustment of the axis of rotation of the tool about both horizontal and vertical axes.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1983Date of Patent: March 5, 1985Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventor: Heinrich Fischer
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Patent number: 4477214Abstract: A machine for the precision working of tooth surfaces on a toothed workpiece stationarily but rotatably mounted on a machine frame, by using a tool, for example a shaving gear, arranged above the workpiece and which is rotatably drivable. The tool is mounted on a tool carrier which in turn is mounted on a guide carrier, which tool carrier is longitudinally movable and which is swingably suspended on a horizontal bolt. The tool carrier has a guide arm which is guided in a pivot member. The horizontal bolt, which for the purpose of adjusting the feed direction can be rotated about a vertical axis, is also adjustably inclinable in a vertical plane to enable the production of slightly conical teeth according to an underpass machining method.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1982Date of Patent: October 16, 1984Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventor: Johann Spensberger
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Patent number: 4359301Abstract: A machine for precision working, for example shaving, of the tooth flanks of a toothed workpiece supported rotatably on a machine frame. A tool carrier carries a multi-toothed tool, for example a shaving cutter, and is supported substantially above the workpiece for rotative adjustment of the crossing of the axes of the workpiece and tool, about an axis perpendicular to the workpiece axis. The tool carrier is guided movably in a guide carrier and is driven for longitudinal feeding of the tool. The guide carrier is suspended swingably about a horizontal axis for spherical or conical tooth working. The guide carrier is supported pendantly from a swivel plate which is swingable and lockable about an axis perpendicular to the workpiece axis for adjusting the feed direction. The tool carrier is guided by a guide arm which is adjustable in its inclination and is securable by a pivot member on the swivel plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1980Date of Patent: November 16, 1982Assignee: Carl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.Inventors: Johann Spensberger, Heinrich Fischer
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Patent number: 4212572Abstract: Machine for finishing gear wheel teeth by shaving or rolling by means of a toothed rotary tool adapted to operate in tight meshing engagement with the gear wheel for finishing the teeth thereof, which comprises means for supporting the tool along its axis of rotation, a motor for rotatably driving said tool, means for supporting said gear wheel along its axis of rotation, the two axes of rotation of the tool and gear wheel, respectively, having at least one common perpendicular, and motor means for generating between said tool support means and said gear wheel support means, three powered relative movements comprising a movement in a direction parallel to said common perpendicular and two movements transverse to each other in planes respectively perpendicular to said common perpendicular, the motor for rotatably driving said tool and the motors for producing said two transverse movements being responsive to synchronous programmable servo-control means.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1978Date of Patent: July 15, 1980Assignee: Renault Industries Equipments et Techniques-RietInventor: Que Vu-Do
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Patent number: 4173920Abstract: A gear shaving machine employing plunge cut (radial infeed with no lateral traverse) in which the rate of relative infeed between a meshed gear-like tool and a work gear is controlled by hydraulic escapement mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1978Date of Patent: November 13, 1979Assignee: Lear Siegler, Inc.Inventor: John J. Sigman, Jr.