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- Movement is transmitted to the carriage by a flexible band arrangement such that angular motion of the table causes a linear displacement of the carriage which, in a ratio depending on the selected angular disposition of the rocker, is translated into a shifting of the grinder slide toward and away from the gear to form the desired profile.
- a flexible band arrangement such that angular motion of the table causes a linear displacement of the carriage which, in a ratio depending on the selected angular disposition of the rocker, is translated into a shifting of the grinder slide toward and away from the gear to form the desired profile.
- two swinging grinders are employed simultaneously on difierent teeth of the gear.
- Each additional roller is connected by a pair of flexible bands to the main roller in such a manner that, upon swinging of its associated table about the axis of the main roller or cylinder, the roller on the table is rotated in either of two angular directions depending upon the direction of swinging of its associated table.
- the circular segment fixed to rotate with each table roller is connected by a pair of flexible bands to opposite ends of a slide for moving the flank generating tool so that, upon rotation of the table roller, the slide is longitudinally displaced along a guide.
- the slide is moved in either of a pair of opposite directions in accordance with the direction of rotation of the associated table roller corresponding to swinging or rotation in a selected direction of the table.
- the tooth flank generating mechanism of the present invention is an improvement on that shown and described in copending application Ser. No. 555,786, filed June 7, 1966, and now abandoned by Gerd Robert Sommer for Generating Apparatus of a Gear-Cutting Machine.
- gear tooth flank generating arrangements are recognized in the prior art.
- the workpiece rolls.
- the workpiece is rotated in operative relation with a tangentially and rectilinearly moving tool.
- tooth generation is etfected with a rolling or hobbing tool.
- a tool having the shape of a gear wheel or of a gear rack may be employed, or there may be used a tool having a point generating an involute gear profile to be produced.
- the prior art discloses a gear tooth flank generating arrangement including a continuously rotatable work table and a tool-holder table with rectilinear motion timed with relation to the rotation of the work table.
- the tool such as a grinding wheel, is pivotal on the tool-holder table in such a manner as to ensure that the tool is maintained tangentially relative to the tooth flank profile to be generated.
- a tooth flank generating means for involute gears and having two tools, such as grinding wheels is known in which two positively connected generating systems, each having a respective grinding wheel, are provided and a gen erating motion is carried out simultaneously and on two tooth flanks facing in opposite directions so that the tools simultaneously machine symmetrical profile sections of a righthand and a letthand tooth flank on the workpiece, the workpiece not participating in the generating mot on.
- two pivoting arms are rotatable or swingable about the axis of a generating cylinder disposed concentrically to the workpiece blank and arranged to be stationary, the pivoting arms executing a rocking motion in opposite directions and each arm being provided with a generating slide carrying a tooth flank generating tool such as a grinding wheel.
- the generating slides are rollably connected with a generating cylinder by means of rolling bands.
- a rolling drive for involute tooth generating machines in which the workpiece on which an involute profile is to be shaped is stationary and the tool holder is shiftable in a longitudinal guide.
- This guide is disposed parallel to the imaginary straight rolling line, and on a table rotatable about the axis of the workpiece.
- the tool holder is driven from a stationary drive member disposed coaxial with the axis of rotation of the table, and a drive member mounted in the table is in driving connection with the stationary drive member.
- the drive member mounted in the table drives a carriage which is reciprocable rectilinearly in the table at an angle to the longitudinal extent of the guide for the tool holder.
- This carriage carries a rocker which is adjustable angularly with respect to the direction of its motion, and a sliding block connected to the tool holder is guided in this rocker.
- the driving connection between the two drive members is established in that the stationary drive member, coaxial with the axis of rotation of the table, is formed with gear teeth which mesh with a gear mounted on a common shaft with the drive member on the table, and which is driven by a motor efiecting rotation motion of the table.
- the drive member on the table drives a threaded spindle likewise mounted rotatably in the table, and this spindle extends parallel to the guide for the carriage and engages a thread formed thereon.
- This invention relates to generating mechanisms for gear tooth flank generating machines and, more particularly, to an improved and simplified generating mechanism capable of especially great precision in generating gear tooth flanks.
- the generating mechanism includes two drive members in the form of cylindrical rollers and interconnected by flexible bands, one cylindrical roller being fixedly mounted on the machine base and the other cylindrical roller being rotatably mounted on the tool-carrying table.
- the cylindrical roller on the tool-carrying table is connected with a tool-supporting slide by flexible bands.
- the interconnection between the stationary roller mounted on the machine base and the rotatable roller mounted on the table, by the flexible bands, is such that the roller mounted on the table is positively rotated in opposed directions responsive to rotation of the table in opposed directions about an axis concentric with the workpiece and with the stationary cylindrical roller.
- the cylindrical roller mounted on the table preferably comprises two separate roller surfaces secured to a common shaft, one roller surface comprising a cylinder and the other roller surface comprising a cylindrical segment.
- the cylinder roller surface is connected by two flexible bands to opposite ends of a longitudinally and rectilinearly displaceable tool-supporting slide, and the cylinder segment roller surface is connected by two flexible bands, extending in opposite directions, to the stationary cylindrical roller.
- the arrangement of the invention provides for great freedom in dimensioning the various components of the rolling drive. For example, if a relatively large diameter of the stationary roller, which is coaxial with the axis of rotation of the table, results from the overall design of the gear tooth flank generating machine, but if it is required that the guide for the tool-supporting carriage should not be excessively long, then provisions can be made for that part of the table-mounted rolling surface which is connected with the stationary rolling surface to be, for example, twice the diameter of that part of the table mounted roller surface connected with the toolsupporting carriage.
- an object of the present invention is to provide a simplified rolling drive for the tool-supporting means of a gear tooth flank generating machine.
- Another object of the invention is to provide such a drive by means of which there may be obtained especially great precision in machining gear tooth flanks.
- a further object of the invention is to provide such a drive including circular rolling surfaces interconnected by flexible bands.
- Still another object of the invention is to provide such a drive including two drive members, one being stationary or fixed on the machine bed and the other being rotatable on a table swingable about the axis of the stationary member, and in which the two drive members are cylindrical rolling surfaces interconnected by flexible bands.
- a further object of the invention is to provide such a drive as just-mentioned in which the rolling surface on the table is rotatably mounted thereon and is connected with components on the table by flexible bands.
- another object of the invention is to provide such a drive in which the drive member rotatably mounted on the table comprises two separate rolling surfaces on a common shaft, one rolling surface comprising a cylinder and the other rolling surface comprising a cylindrical segment.
- a further object of the invention is to provide a drive of the type just-mentioned in which the cylinder on the table is connected with the stationary cylinder on the machine bed, and the cylindrical segment on the table is connected with a tool-supporting carriage.
- An ancillary object of the invention is to provide such a rolling drive which provides great freedom in dimensioning the various components of the drive.
- FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of one half of an involute gear tooth generating machine, shown as a grinder solely by way of example, incorporating a rolling drive in accordance with the invention;
- FIG. 2 is a side elevation view correspondng to FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a plan view, corresponding to FIG. 1, showing the parts of the grinder in a first working position corresponding to FIG. 1;
- FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3 but illustrating a second working position of the parts of the grinder, corresponding with FIG. 2.
- an involute gear tooth flank grinder serving as one example of a tooth flank generating machine to which the drive of the invention is applied, is illustrated as including a circular machine bed 201 having two gear segments 202 on its periphery and staggered with respect to each other.
- the axis of the gear 204 whose tooth flanks are to be generated coincides with a common vertical center line or axis 203 of machine bed 201 and of gear segments 202.
- gear 204 By suitable means, not shown but known to those skillednithe lprs if gear 204 is so supported that it is rotatable by one tooth pitch only after the generation of a pair of tooth flanks, and can perform only axial motions during tooth flank generation of spur gears having teeth with straight or planar flanks. During the tooth flank generation of helical spur gears, a corresponding helical motion is imparted to workpiece 204.
- each table 206 is formed with rectilinear guide 207 in which a tool holder 208 is rectilinearly shiftable.
- Each tool holder 208 carries a respective tooth flank generating tool such as a grinding wheel 209.
- An approach carriage 210 is provided for the adjustment of the proper starting position of the grinding wheel with respect to the workpiece 204, and approach carriage 210 is guided in tool holder 208 for horizontal movement transversely of guide 207, and preferably at right angles to guide 207.
- a pivoting carriage 211 is mounted on approach carriage 210 for angular displacement about the axis of a shaft 233 which extends horizontally and which is perpendicular to the plane of FIG. 2.
- Grinding wheel 208 is mounted on pivoting carriage 211, and a motor (not shown) is accommodated in carriage 211 to drive grinding wheel 209.
- each table has a spur gear 213 rotatably mounted thereon and meshing with a respective gear segment 202, each spur gear 203 being driven by a motor 217.
- Each table 206 further mounts a carriage 220 which is reciprocable rectilinearly of a rectilinear guide 220' extending at an angle relative to guide 207.
- Each carriage 220 carries a rocker 221 which is angularly adjustable relative to the direction of motion of the associated carriage 220.
- Each rocker 221 is formed as a longitudinal guide for a sliding block 226, and each sliding block 226 is pivotally connected to the free end of a fixed arm 227 projecting from the assiciated tool holder 208.
- a cylindrical roller 229 is rotatably mounted on each table 206 for rotation about a vertical axis adjacent the associated guide 220.
- Each cylindrical roller 229 is connected by two flexible bands 228 and 228' to opposite ends of carriage 220.
- One band 228 is connected to one end of carriage 220 and extends around cylindrical roller 229 in one direction and at a selected level thereof, and the other band 228' is connected to the opposite end of carriage 220 and extends around cylindrical roller 229 in the opposite direction and at an adjacent level thereof.
- Each. cylindrical roller 229 is fixed to a common shaft along with a cylindrical segment 230, and each segment 230 is connected by two flexible bands 231 and 231 to a stationary cylindrical roller 232 which is coaxial with a common axis of rotation of tables 206.
- Bands 231 and 231' extend in respective opposite directions relative to segment 230 and stationary cylindrical roller 232, and are at adjacent levels on the segment and on the roller 232.
- each carriage 220 in a ratio depending on the selected angular position of the associated rocker 221, is translated into a shifting of tool holder 208 along guide 207, and thus into an axial displacement of the associated grinding wheel 209
- Whose edge describes an involute whose pitch diameter depends on the selected angular position of rocker 221.
- rollers 229 are illustrated as having radii less than those of segments 230, with correspondingly different rolling arcs, this is by way of example only, and the relative ratios of the radii and rolling arcs can be changed in accordance with the desired transmission ratio.
- said flexible band means comprises a first pair of flexible bands each connected at one end to said first drive member and at the opposite end to said second drive member, said bands extending in opposite angular directions around the cylindrical roller surfaces of said first and second drive members; and a second pair of flexible bands each secured at one end to one end of said carriage and at the opposite end to said first drive member, said second bands extending in respective opposite directions along said carriage and in respective opposite angular directions around the cylindrical roller surface of said first drive member.
- said first drive member comprises a roller cylinder and a cylindrical segment secured coaxially to a common axis; said flexible band means connecting said cylindrical segment to said second drive member and connecting said cylindrical roller to said carriage.
- said flexible band means comprises a first pair of flexible bands each connected at one end to said cylindrical segment and at the opposite end to said second drive member, said first flexible bands extending in opposite angular directions around said cylindrical segment and around the cylindrical rolling surface of said second drive member; and a pair of second bands each connected at one end to one end of said carriage and at the opposite end to said cylindrical roller, said second bands extending in respective opposite directions along said carriage and in respective opposite angular directions around said cylindrical roller.
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March 24, 1970 e. R. SOMMER 3,501,869
GENERATING MECHANISM FOR TOOTH FLANK GENERATING MACHINES Filed Nov. 21, 1967 2 sheets-sheet;
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United States Patent Ofl ice 3,501,869 Patented Mar. 24, 1970 US. Cl. 51-54 5 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An involute gear tooth grinder in which the gear is held stationary while the grinding wheel is swung angularly about the gear axis and simultaneously fed toward and away from the gear to form the desired involute profile. The grinding wheel is slidably mounted on a swinging table and is moved on its slide by a rocker fixed on the grinder slide and having an end angularly adjustably connected to a carriage displaceable on the table at an angle to the grinding wheel feed direction. Movement is transmitted to the carriage by a flexible band arrangement such that angular motion of the table causes a linear displacement of the carriage which, in a ratio depending on the selected angular disposition of the rocker, is translated into a shifting of the grinder slide toward and away from the gear to form the desired profile. Preferably two swinging grinders are employed simultaneously on difierent teeth of the gear.
The generating mechanism disclosed as including an axis and a pair of additional rollers, which rotatably mounted on a respective table and each having rotatable therewith a circular segment. Each additional roller is connected by a pair of flexible bands to the main roller in such a manner that, upon swinging of its associated table about the axis of the main roller or cylinder, the roller on the table is rotated in either of two angular directions depending upon the direction of swinging of its associated table. The circular segment fixed to rotate with each table roller is connected by a pair of flexible bands to opposite ends of a slide for moving the flank generating tool so that, upon rotation of the table roller, the slide is longitudinally displaced along a guide. Thus, the slide is moved in either of a pair of opposite directions in accordance with the direction of rotation of the associated table roller corresponding to swinging or rotation in a selected direction of the table.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION The tooth flank generating mechanism of the present invention is an improvement on that shown and described in copending application Ser. No. 555,786, filed June 7, 1966, and now abandoned by Gerd Robert Sommer for Generating Apparatus of a Gear-Cutting Machine.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Three different kinds of gear tooth flank generating arrangements are recognized in the prior art. In one arrangement, the workpiece rolls. In a second arrangement, the workpiece is rotated in operative relation with a tangentially and rectilinearly moving tool. In a third arrangement, tooth generation is etfected with a rolling or hobbing tool. In all three cases, a tool having the shape of a gear wheel or of a gear rack may be employed, or there may be used a tool having a point generating an involute gear profile to be produced.
The prior art discloses a gear tooth flank generating arrangement including a continuously rotatable work table and a tool-holder table with rectilinear motion timed with relation to the rotation of the work table. The tool, such as a grinding wheel, is pivotal on the tool-holder table in such a manner as to ensure that the tool is maintained tangentially relative to the tooth flank profile to be generated.
It is also known to provide gear tooth flank generating machines in which the tooth flank profile is generated machines in which the tooth flank profile is generated by means of driving drums and roll bands. In particular, a tooth flank generating means for involute gears and having two tools, such as grinding wheels, is known in which two positively connected generating systems, each having a respective grinding wheel, are provided and a gen erating motion is carried out simultaneously and on two tooth flanks facing in opposite directions so that the tools simultaneously machine symmetrical profile sections of a righthand and a letthand tooth flank on the workpiece, the workpiece not participating in the generating mot on. In this system, two pivoting arms are rotatable or swingable about the axis of a generating cylinder disposed concentrically to the workpiece blank and arranged to be stationary, the pivoting arms executing a rocking motion in opposite directions and each arm being provided with a generating slide carrying a tooth flank generating tool such as a grinding wheel. The generating slides are rollably connected with a generating cylinder by means of rolling bands. When using such a generating device with two symmetrically rocking grinding Wheels and including a roller band arrangement, it will be necessary to employ a corresponding driving cylinder whose diameter is identical with the generating circle, in the case of circular gear-shape of rack-shape tools, or with the base circle, in the case of tools which generate the involute profile with a point. This necessitates the use of a large number of highly accurate driving cylinders.
In the copending application mentioned above, a rolling drive for involute tooth generating machines is provided in which the workpiece on which an involute profile is to be shaped is stationary and the tool holder is shiftable in a longitudinal guide. This guide is disposed parallel to the imaginary straight rolling line, and on a table rotatable about the axis of the workpiece. The tool holder is driven from a stationary drive member disposed coaxial with the axis of rotation of the table, and a drive member mounted in the table is in driving connection with the stationary drive member. The drive member mounted in the table, in turn, drives a carriage which is reciprocable rectilinearly in the table at an angle to the longitudinal extent of the guide for the tool holder. This carriage carries a rocker which is adjustable angularly with respect to the direction of its motion, and a sliding block connected to the tool holder is guided in this rocker.
In one embodiment of the drive shown in the mentioned copending application, the driving connection between the two drive members is established in that the stationary drive member, coaxial with the axis of rotation of the table, is formed with gear teeth which mesh with a gear mounted on a common shaft with the drive member on the table, and which is driven by a motor efiecting rotation motion of the table. The drive member on the table, in turn, drives a threaded spindle likewise mounted rotatably in the table, and this spindle extends parallel to the guide for the carriage and engages a thread formed thereon.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to generating mechanisms for gear tooth flank generating machines and, more particularly, to an improved and simplified generating mechanism capable of especially great precision in generating gear tooth flanks.
In accordance with the invention, the generating mechanism includes two drive members in the form of cylindrical rollers and interconnected by flexible bands, one cylindrical roller being fixedly mounted on the machine base and the other cylindrical roller being rotatably mounted on the tool-carrying table. The cylindrical roller on the tool-carrying table is connected with a tool-supporting slide by flexible bands. The interconnection between the stationary roller mounted on the machine base and the rotatable roller mounted on the table, by the flexible bands, is such that the roller mounted on the table is positively rotated in opposed directions responsive to rotation of the table in opposed directions about an axis concentric with the workpiece and with the stationary cylindrical roller.
The cylindrical roller mounted on the table preferably comprises two separate roller surfaces secured to a common shaft, one roller surface comprising a cylinder and the other roller surface comprising a cylindrical segment. The cylinder roller surface is connected by two flexible bands to opposite ends of a longitudinally and rectilinearly displaceable tool-supporting slide, and the cylinder segment roller surface is connected by two flexible bands, extending in opposite directions, to the stationary cylindrical roller.
The arrangement of the invention provides for great freedom in dimensioning the various components of the rolling drive. For example, if a relatively large diameter of the stationary roller, which is coaxial with the axis of rotation of the table, results from the overall design of the gear tooth flank generating machine, but if it is required that the guide for the tool-supporting carriage should not be excessively long, then provisions can be made for that part of the table-mounted rolling surface which is connected with the stationary rolling surface to be, for example, twice the diameter of that part of the table mounted roller surface connected with the toolsupporting carriage.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a simplified rolling drive for the tool-supporting means of a gear tooth flank generating machine.
Another object of the invention is to provide such a drive by means of which there may be obtained especially great precision in machining gear tooth flanks.
A further object of the invention is to provide such a drive including circular rolling surfaces interconnected by flexible bands.
Still another object of the invention is to provide such a drive including two drive members, one being stationary or fixed on the machine bed and the other being rotatable on a table swingable about the axis of the stationary member, and in which the two drive members are cylindrical rolling surfaces interconnected by flexible bands.
A further object of the invention is to provide such a drive as just-mentioned in which the rolling surface on the table is rotatably mounted thereon and is connected with components on the table by flexible bands.
Yet, another object of the invention is to provide such a drive in which the drive member rotatably mounted on the table comprises two separate rolling surfaces on a common shaft, one rolling surface comprising a cylinder and the other rolling surface comprising a cylindrical segment.
A further object of the invention is to provide a drive of the type just-mentioned in which the cylinder on the table is connected with the stationary cylinder on the machine bed, and the cylindrical segment on the table is connected with a tool-supporting carriage.
An ancillary object of the invention is to provide such a rolling drive which provides great freedom in dimensioning the various components of the drive.
l BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS For an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference is made to the following description of a typical embodiment thereof as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of one half of an involute gear tooth generating machine, shown as a grinder solely by way of example, incorporating a rolling drive in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevation view correspondng to FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a plan view, corresponding to FIG. 1, showing the parts of the grinder in a first working position corresponding to FIG. 1; and
FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3 but illustrating a second working position of the parts of the grinder, corresponding with FIG. 2.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to the drawings, an involute gear tooth flank grinder, serving as one example of a tooth flank generating machine to which the drive of the invention is applied, is illustrated as including a circular machine bed 201 having two gear segments 202 on its periphery and staggered with respect to each other. The axis of the gear 204 whose tooth flanks are to be generated coincides with a common vertical center line or axis 203 of machine bed 201 and of gear segments 202. By suitable means, not shown but known to those skillednithe lprs if gear 204 is so supported that it is rotatable by one tooth pitch only after the generation of a pair of tooth flanks, and can perform only axial motions during tooth flank generation of spur gears having teeth with straight or planar flanks. During the tooth flank generation of helical spur gears, a corresponding helical motion is imparted to workpiece 204.
The aforementioned common vertical center line is the axis of a shaft 203, which serves as a pivot axis for two symmetrically identical tables 206, which are thus swingable about the shaft 203. While two tables 206 are illustrated by way of example, the invention is not limited to a generating machine including two tables or any specific number of tables. The upper surface of each table 206 is formed with rectilinear guide 207 in which a tool holder 208 is rectilinearly shiftable. Each tool holder 208 carries a respective tooth flank generating tool such as a grinding wheel 209. An approach carriage 210 is provided for the adjustment of the proper starting position of the grinding wheel with respect to the workpiece 204, and approach carriage 210 is guided in tool holder 208 for horizontal movement transversely of guide 207, and preferably at right angles to guide 207. A pivoting carriage 211 is mounted on approach carriage 210 for angular displacement about the axis of a shaft 233 which extends horizontally and which is perpendicular to the plane of FIG. 2. Grinding wheel 208 is mounted on pivoting carriage 211, and a motor (not shown) is accommodated in carriage 211 to drive grinding wheel 209.
In order to rotate tables 206 about shaft 203, each table has a spur gear 213 rotatably mounted thereon and meshing with a respective gear segment 202, each spur gear 203 being driven by a motor 217. Each table 206 further mounts a carriage 220 which is reciprocable rectilinearly of a rectilinear guide 220' extending at an angle relative to guide 207. Each carriage 220 carries a rocker 221 which is angularly adjustable relative to the direction of motion of the associated carriage 220. Each rocker 221 is formed as a longitudinal guide for a sliding block 226, and each sliding block 226 is pivotally connected to the free end of a fixed arm 227 projecting from the assiciated tool holder 208.
A cylindrical roller 229 is rotatably mounted on each table 206 for rotation about a vertical axis adjacent the associated guide 220. Each cylindrical roller 229 is connected by two flexible bands 228 and 228' to opposite ends of carriage 220. One band 228 is connected to one end of carriage 220 and extends around cylindrical roller 229 in one direction and at a selected level thereof, and the other band 228' is connected to the opposite end of carriage 220 and extends around cylindrical roller 229 in the opposite direction and at an adjacent level thereof. Thus, responsive to rotation of cylindrical roller 229 in opposite angular directions, carriage 220 will be reciprocated in opposite directions along guide 220' with the shifting movement precisely controlled in accordance with the rotation of the associated cylindrical roller 229.
Each. cylindrical roller 229 is fixed to a common shaft along with a cylindrical segment 230, and each segment 230 is connected by two flexible bands 231 and 231 to a stationary cylindrical roller 232 which is coaxial with a common axis of rotation of tables 206. Bands 231 and 231' extend in respective opposite directions relative to segment 230 and stationary cylindrical roller 232, and are at adjacent levels on the segment and on the roller 232.
The arrangement just described operates in the following manner. At the start of machining gear 204, the two approach carriages 210 are so adjusted that the intersection formed by the flank and the outside diameter of each gear tooth falls on an imaginary straight rolling line 223 which is tangent touching pitch circle 224 of gear 204 and is illustrated in FIG. 3 for the right grinding wheel 209 only. Tables 206 are now driven in opposing directions by their motors 217 in such a manner that they perform a rotary motion, or an angular displacement, from their initial position shown in FIG. 3 to the position shown in FIG. 4. The rotary motion of each. table 206 results in rotation, through bands 231 and 231, of each of the cylindrical rollers 229 and attached cylindrical segments 230 about their common axis. In turn, this causes a longitudinal shifting of each carriage 220 through the medium of flexible bands 228 and 228' connected to opposite ends of each carriage.
The motion of each carriage 220, in a ratio depending on the selected angular position of the associated rocker 221, is translated into a shifting of tool holder 208 along guide 207, and thus into an axial displacement of the associated grinding wheel 209 Whose edge describes an involute whose pitch diameter depends on the selected angular position of rocker 221. Thus, it is not necessary to exchange pitch circle roller cams in accordance with different workpieces.
While rollers 229 are illustrated as having radii less than those of segments 230, with correspondingly different rolling arcs, this is by way of example only, and the relative ratios of the radii and rolling arcs can be changed in accordance with the desired transmission ratio.
While a specific embodiment of the invention has been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the principles of the invention, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles.
What is claimed is:
1. In an involute gear tooth flank generating machine in which the workpice on which an involute profile is to be shaped is held stationary, and including a tool-holder shiftable rectilinearly along a first elongated rectilinear guide extending parallel to the imaginary straight rolling line of the gear, a table carrying the guide and swingable about the axis of the workpiece, the tool-holder having a first drive member in driving connection with a stationary second drive member coaxial with the workpiece axis, a carriage on the table shiftable rectilinearly along a second elongated rectilinear guide extending at an angle to the first guide, a rocker on the carriage an-gularly displaceable relative to the direction of movement of the carriage, and a slide guided for rectilinear reciprocation on the rocker and connected to the tool holder: the improvement in which said first and second drive members are formed with cylindrical roller surfaces; flexible band means interconnecting said first and second drive members; and flexible band means connecting said first drive member to said carriage.
2. In an involute gear tooth flank generating machine, the improvement claimed in claim 1, in which said flexible band means comprises a first pair of flexible bands each connected at one end to said first drive member and at the opposite end to said second drive member, said bands extending in opposite angular directions around the cylindrical roller surfaces of said first and second drive members; and a second pair of flexible bands each secured at one end to one end of said carriage and at the opposite end to said first drive member, said second bands extending in respective opposite directions along said carriage and in respective opposite angular directions around the cylindrical roller surface of said first drive member.
3. In an involute gear tooth flank generating machine, the improvement claimed in claim 1, in which said first drive member comprises a roller cylinder and a cylindrical segment secured coaxially to a common axis; said flexible band means connecting said cylindrical segment to said second drive member and connecting said cylindrical roller to said carriage.
4. In an involute gear tooth flank generating machine, the improvement claimed in claim 3, in which said flexible band means comprises a first pair of flexible bands each connected at one end to said cylindrical segment and at the opposite end to said second drive member, said first flexible bands extending in opposite angular directions around said cylindrical segment and around the cylindrical rolling surface of said second drive member; and a pair of second bands each connected at one end to one end of said carriage and at the opposite end to said cylindrical roller, said second bands extending in respective opposite directions along said carriage and in respective opposite angular directions around said cylindrical roller.
5. In an involute gear tooth flank generating machine, the improvement claimed in claim 3, in which the diameter of said cylindrical segment diflers from the diameter of said cylindrical roller.
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ROBERT C. RIORDON, Primary Examiner D. G. KELLY, Assistant Examiner
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