Operating Method for Improving the Running Behavior of Gearwheels and Burnishing Device for Performing the Method

A burnishing device for reworking gearwheels by removing flaws on the gearwheels noticed during gearwheel testing, the burnishing device comprising:

• a first gearwheel machining tool having a machining wheel coated with an abrasive agent, said first gearwheel machining tool being operated for mechanically freeing from tooth flanks of the gearwheel at least one of scaling adhering to surfaces of the tooth flanks from a prior heat treatment, other particles and slight protrusions protruding therefrom including nicks, damage arising during an operating process in a form of minimal ejections, fine notches and burrs by bringing the gearwheel and said machining wheel into engagement with one another and being pivoted, under a braking load of the gearwheel being a non-driven wheel or without a braking load, with mutual clamping against one another;
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• a second gearwheel machining tool being a burnishing machine having gearwheel-shaped rolling tools being burnishing wheels where the gearwheel is chucked between said burnishing wheels and rolled without material abrasion, said first and second gearwheel machining tools disposed adjacent to one another.