Method of modified gear cutting of a globoid worm gear
AssigneeNippon Gear Co., Ltd.
InventorsShiro Umezono, Minoru Maki
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Abstract
A method of modified gear cutting of a globoid worm gear. A worm wheel gear cutting tool employs a conical cutting surface which is substantially the same as the conical surfaces of the teeth of a cooperating globoid worm wheel. The worm wheel is the reciprocal image of the conical cutting surface of the tool. A worm gear is cut by imparting to the cutting tool a motion defined both by the distance between the axis of the worm gear to be cut and the axis of rotation of the cutting tool as well as the speed reduction ratio which constitutes the ratio of the speed of rotation of the cutting tool to the speed of rotation of the worm gear.
Claims2
A method of cutting a globoid worm gear adapted to engage the toothed surface of a cooperatively associated worm wheel comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a worm wheel gear cutting tool having conical cutting surfaces formed thereon, the profile thereof being substantially the same as the surfaces of the globoid worm wheel;
- (b) rotating the conical cutting surfaces of the worm wheel gear cutting tool at a rate proportional to that applied to the globoid worm gear;
- (c) cutting the tooth surfaces of a worm wheel with the worm wheel gear cutting tool and forming a reciprocal image therein of the conical cutting surface of said cutting tool;
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- (d) cutting the globoid worm gear by imparting to the conical cutting surfaces of the cutting tool a motion defined by a lead angle of engagement determined from (i) the distance between the axis of the worm gear and the center of rotation of the cutting tool, and (ii) the ratio between the rate of rotation of the cutting tool and the rate of rotation of the worm gear, both of which are increased from the values used to generate the conical cutting surfaces of the cutting tool.
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