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US 6,752,691 B1Granted
Device for smoothing gear wheels
AssigneeMiniTec for better gears GmbH
InventorsHerbert Jakoby, Matthias Hopfeld
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Abstract
A device for smoothing gear wheels includes a loading station for supplying the gear wheels, a smoothing station for smoothing the flanks of the teeth, an inspection station for inspecting the degree of smoothing, and an unloading station for carrying away the processed gear wheels, wherein the stations are arranged around a rotary transport device for conveying the gear wheels from station to station.
Claims16
A device for burnishing gear wheels, the device comprising
- a loading station for supplying gear wheels to the device,
- a burnishing station for burnishing tooth flanks of the gear wheels,
- an inspection station for inspecting a degree of burnishing of the gear wheels,
- an unloading station for carrying away processed gear wheels, wherein
- the loading station, the burnishing station, the inspection station and the unloading station are arranged around a rotary transport device for conveying the gear wheels from station to station, the rotary transport device including a rotating element that has gear wheel holders arranged over its circumference each with a gripper for grasping a gear wheel, the number of gear wheel holders corresponding to the number of stations, the rotary transport device being configured to be vertically displaceable in its entirety in a direction of a vertical rotary axis of the rotary transport device for simultaneously transferring the gear wheels to the stations or removing the gear wheels from the stations.
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