摘要:
The invention concerns a method to generate and/or machine gear teeth on a workpiece, wherein the workpiece is subjected to a movement from a first location where the workpiece, while being held by a clamping device connected to a workpiece spindle, is brought into machining engagement with a first tool, to a second location where the work piece, while remaining in its clamped condition, is brought into machining engagement with a second tool, wherein prior to performing the movement, the connection between the clamping device and the workpiece spindle is released, and after the movement, the clamping device is connected to another workpiece spindle for the machining engagement with the second tool.
摘要:
A machine for cutting the teeth of a rack for a variable ratio rack and pinion steering gear employing a helical pinion having a plurality of identical teeth engaged with a rack having some tooth gaps of varying form and angular disposition to the rack axis, the machine having a spindle carrying a tool with a single cutting tooth having cutting edges which lie on the surface of a single tooth of the helical pinion; the spindle is arranged for helical reciprocation in a housing between two predetermined limits about a mid position in which the tool is directed normally to the plane of the teeth of the rack, a rack holding fixture, the fixture or the housing being moveable with a relative translatory curvilinear motion during the cutting of a gap of the rack, the motion for any one gap being a part of the locus of the helical pinion when slid without rotation in the same gap of the rack.
摘要:
A gear hobbing machine having a gear train interconnecting a hob and a workpiece to be machined by the hob, the gear train being disconnectable to permit of cutting a stationary workpiece by a milling cutter substituted for the hob, a subsidiary motor operable to impart an increment of indexing rotation to the workpiece between successive cutting operations of the milling cutter, an index plate geared to a table supporting the workpiece and arranged when the milling cutter is in operation to perform a predetermined integral number of revolutions for each indexing movement of the workpiece, a bolt which is engageable with the index plate to lock the table against rotation, and a counter for counting the rotations made by the index plate when the bolt is withdrawn and causing arrest of the index plate and re-engagement of the bolt after the predetermined number of revolutions of the index plate have been performed.