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Spur gears or straight-cut gears are the simplest type of gear. They consist of a cylinder or disk with teeth projecting radially. Viewing the gear at 90 degrees from the shaft length (side on) the tooth faces are straight and aligned parallel to the axis of rotation. Looking down the length of the shaft, a tooth's cross section is usually not ...
The involute gear profile, sometimes credited to Leonhard Euler, [ 1] was a fundamental advance in machine design, since unlike with other gear systems, the tooth profile of an involute gear depends only on the number of teeth on the gear, pressure angle, and pitch. That is, a gear's profile does not depend on the gear it mates with.
Profile of a spur gear Notation and numbering for an external gear Notation and numbering for an internal gear. The tooth surface (flank) forms the side of a gear tooth. [1] It is convenient to choose one face of the gear as the reference face and to mark it with the letter “I”. The other non-reference face might be termed face “II”.
English: Typical tooth dimensions of a spur gear. This illustration has involute tooth profiles, with the gear having 20 teeth in total. Four distinct dimensions are labeled: t = tooth width, measured along the pitch circle; p = circular pitch, measured along the pitch circle; a = addendum, measured radially between the pitch circle and the ...
The pressure angle gives the direction normal to the tooth profile. The pressure angle is equal to the profile angle at the standard pitch circle and can be termed the "standard" pressure angle at that point. Standard values are 14.5 and 20 degrees. [ 2] Earlier gears with pressure angle 14.5 were commonly used because the cosine is larger for ...
Cycloid gear. Drawing showing the tooth and leaf profile of a cycloidal wheel and pinion. A cycloidal gear is a toothed gear with a cycloidal profile. Such gears are used in mechanical clocks and watches, rather than the involute gear form used for most other gears. Cycloidal gears have advantages over involute gears in such applications in ...
Bevel gear. Bevel gears are gears where the axes of the two shafts intersect and the tooth -bearing faces of the gears themselves are conically shaped. Bevel gears are most often mounted on shafts that are 90 degrees apart, but can be designed to work at other angles as well. [ 1] The pitch surface of bevel gears is a cone, known as a pitch cone.
A gear[ 1][ 2] or gearwheel[ 3][ 4][ 5] is a rotating machine part typically used to transmit rotational motion and/or torque by means of a series of teeth that engage with compatible teeth of another gear or other part. The teeth can be integral saliences or cavities machined on the part, or separate pegs inserted inserted into it.