bevel gear


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bevel gear

bevel gear

n.
Either of a pair of gears with teeth surfaces cut so that they can connect unparallel gear shafts.
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bevel gear

n
(Mechanical Engineering) a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
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bev′el gear`


n.
a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface, usu. meshing with a similar gear set at right angles.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bevel gear - gears that mesh at an anglebevel gear - gears that mesh at an angle    
differential gear, differential - a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves
cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, geared wheel - a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
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SDP/SI also invested in retrofitting an existing Gleason 2A Coniflex bevel cutting machine into a CNC bevel gear cutting machine.
Sales to Remain High for Bevel Gear Products With the growing need for transmitting power, demand for the bevel gears continue to remain high globally.
Comprising an IE4 motor, bevel gear and a field distribution system, NORD LogiDrive systems are said to meet all typical performance requirements of baggage handling systems.
Stick (1897) was et all discussed about design and implementation of ceiling fan rotated by use of bevel gear. [1]
Most studies were related to spiral bevel gear modeling and tooth contact analysis (TCA); Tsai and Chin [1] developed mathematical modeling of the tooth surface geometry for bevel gear pairs based on the basic gearing kinematics and involute geometry along with the tangent planes geometry.
As a typical gear transmission system, the spiral bevel gear system has been used in main reducer of automobile driving axle; particularly dynamic response is one of the most important factors affecting NVH performance; its characteristic research has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign scholars.
A piezo-electric transducer was used to get the vibration signals for the following conditions--good bevel gear, bevel gear with tooth breakage, bevel gear with crack at root of the tooth, and bevel gear with face wear of the teeth for various loading and lubrication conditions.
Spiral bevel gear have been found widely used in helicopter, truck transmissions and reducers for transformation of rotation and torque between intersected axes.
India, June 18 -- The Flender gear units supplied by Siemens consist of a combination of a bevel gear stage with a planetary stage.
A novel concept of using twin complementary cathode gears was conceived to (i) ensure finish of the entire face width of the bevel gear teeth with reciprocating motion as required in the finishing of the cylindrical gears by ECH, and (ii) ensure the inter electrode gap (IEG) between the workpiece and cathode gears so that short-circuiting between them is avoided.
Values for main parts of differential gearbox No Name Module Teeth Speed 1 bevel pinion m=4 [z.sub.1]=13 n=1000 rpm 2 bevel gear m=4 [z.sub.2]=52 n=250 rpm 3 cylindrical gear m=5 [z.sub.3]=22 n=250 rpm 4 cylindrical gear m=5 [z.sub.4]=23 n=250 rpm 5 cylindrical gear m=5 [z.sub.5]=78 n=70,5 rpm 6 cylindrical gear m=5 [z.sub.6]=77 n=74,6 rpm 7 bevel gears m=8 [z.sub.7]=35 n=70,5 rpm n=74,6 rpm 8 bevel pinion m=8 [z.sub.8]=13 n=141 rpm Tab.