摘要:
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for manufacturing complex gears includes the creation of a data set to control a robotic machine tool enabling the tool to machine the contours of the gears accurately after the gear has been cut. Each gear is mounted to an indexable chuck which is used to position the gear for machining operations such as chamfering and deburring that heretofore have been done by hand. A machine cabinet allows debris from machining to be recovered by a vacuum-operated system and an air-cooling system cools the gear during machining without requiring the use of cooling oils or other liquids.
摘要:
A work piece having edges comprising teeth, slots, dovetail, keyway or other irregularly shaped artifacts, can be provided with a uniform chamfer around the periphery of the work piece by bringing a grinding wheel or cutter in one single down feed at indexed intervals. The shape or profile of the grinding wheel or cutter is formed from an algorithm depending on the shape and dimensions of the work piece artifacts, such as gear teeth, etc., to provide the uniform chamfer at each slot of, for example, an internal or external gear wheel. A method of providing such a chamfer on irregularly shaped artifacts comprises forming a gear grinding wheel from the dimensions of the desired chamfer, and providing a chamfering tool or grinding wheel in accordance with an algorithm desired for the required chamfer, then bringing the gear chamfering tool in proximity to, and in contact with the edges of the work piece so as to produce a uniform chamfer on the sides and back edge. The method may include a step of moving of the cutter or grinding wheel from one side to another and tilting the cutter or grinding wheel to chamfer the back side.
摘要:
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for manufacturing complex gears includes the creation of a data set to control a robotic machine tool enabling the tool to machine the contours of the gears accurately after the gear has been cut. Each gear is mounted to an indexable chuck which is used to position the gear for machining operations such as chamfering and deburring that heretofore have been done by hand. A machine cabinet allows debris from machining to be recovered by a vacuum-operated system and an air-cooling system cools the gear during machining without requiring the use of cooling oils or other liquids.
摘要:
A chamfer hob for and a method of providing a chamfered end and having an identical chamfer angle at both a front face and a back face of a gear including a shaft, a plurality of helical cutting vanes extending radially outwardly from the shaft, such that the radially outward surface of the cutting vanes defines a hob diameter, and a hob radius, a predetermined radial width of the desired chamfer and a depth of chamfer, such that the chamfering is done on both faces of the gear teeth ends resulting in a uniform chamfer around the periphery of the complete gear tooth. The method includes the steps of providing a blank gear die, including a gear shaft and a disk having a front face distally disposed from the gear shaft and back face proximally disposed to the gear shaft, each of the front and back faces having gear, providing a gear hob and a chamfer hob on a single hob spindle, the chamfer hob having a plurality of helical cutting vanes extending radially outwardly from the hob shaft, such that the radially outwardly extending surface of the cutting vanes, mounting the gear blank on a mount, mounting the hob spindle, including the gear hob and the chamfer hob, on a mounting device for rotation therewith, bringing the gear hob in proximity to and in contact with the edges of the gear blank so as to form gear teeth on the gear blank, bringing the chamfer hob in proximity to and in contact with the edges along the front face of the gear teeth formed in the preceding step so as to produce a uniform chamfer around the edges of the gear teeth and bringing the gear hob in proximity to and in contact with the edges along the back face of the gear teeth formed so as to produce a uniform chamfer around the edges of the gear teeth.