WO2000063587A1 - A drive gear assembly - Google Patents
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- WO2000063587A1 WO2000063587A1 PCT/AU2000/000332 AU0000332W WO0063587A1 WO 2000063587 A1 WO2000063587 A1 WO 2000063587A1 AU 0000332 W AU0000332 W AU 0000332W WO 0063587 A1 WO0063587 A1 WO 0063587A1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16H—GEARING
- F16H35/00—Gearings or mechanisms with other special functional features
- F16H35/06—Gearings designed to allow relative movement between supports thereof without ill effects
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16H—GEARING
- F16H1/00—Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion
- F16H1/02—Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion without gears having orbital motion
- F16H1/26—Special means compensating for misalignment of axes
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- the present invention relates to a drive gear assembly that can transfer drive from a motor , such as an electric motor, to a mechanical system, such as a grinding mill .
- motors eg. electric motors
- a drive gear assembly which includes a drive gear, such as a pinion, and meshing the drive gear with a driven gear, such as a gear wheel, that is connected in some way to the mechanical system.
- gear teeth of the drive gear be parallel with the gear teeth of the driven gear. More generally, it is necessary for the axes of rotation of the drive gear and the driven gear to be parallel to their axis of generation. It is also desirable that the backlash of the gears be an optimum for the particular gears. If the gears are set with a backlash of zero, ie. positioned such that the teeth mesh fully and are hard up against one another to the fullest extent, the gears generally will not rotate.
- One known approach for achieving proper alignment is to physically move the motor and/or the drive gear assembly to accurately align the motor shaft and the drive gear assembly in order to achieve close tolerance meshing of the gear teeth.
- the minimum size of the drive gears is dictated by the size of the internal geared couplings and this often results in significantly larger drive gears than are otherwise required.
- the particular form of the spherical bearings that can be used in the gear assemblies is generally not a standard off-the-shelf item and, moreover, generally have limited thrust capacity in their current configuration. Furthermore, misalignment of the drive gears and the driven gears that can be accommodated is limited to the allowable angular misalignment of the internal geared couplings and usually this is relatively small .
- An object of the present invention is to provide an improved sel -aligning drive gear assembly.
- a drive gear assembly which includes :
- the self-aligning bearing assembly allows the self-aligning bearing to be moved laterally and/or radially relative to the axis of the drive shaft.
- the self-aligning bearing supports the drive gear whereby in use of the drive gear assembly:
- the self-aligning bearing support assembly and the flexible coupling or couplings allow lateral movement of the axis of the drive gear relative to the axis of the driven gear so as to position the drive gear so that it meshes correctly, eg at a selected backlash, with the driven gear.
- the self-aligning bearing is located so that the geometric centre of the bearing coincides with the point at which the moments of the operating force systems that act on the drive gear and the driven gear are in equilibrium.
- the drive gear assembly includes a pair of flexible couplings.
- one of the pair of flexible couplings is coupled to the drive gear and the other of the pair is coupled to the drive shaft .
- the drive gear assembly includes a telescopic shaft that connects together the flexible couplings .
- the flexible couplings may be any suitable form of power transmitting coupling that can accept angular misalignment, such as universal joints, constant velocity joints, hookes joints, gear couplings, rubber bush couplings or flexible diaphragm couplings. In fact, any form of power transmitting coupling may be used.
- the drive gear and the driven gear may be any suitable gears.
- the drive gear and the driven gear may be gear wheels or friction wheels.
- the most common embodiment of the invention has the drive gear as a pinion.
- the driven gear may form part of any suitable system.
- the mechanical system may be a pinion drive to a grinding mill girth gear.
- the support assembly for the self- aligning bearing includes:
- a housing that supports the shaft for movement relative to the axis of the drive shaft .
- the shaft includes an eccentric lobe which is received in the housing whereby rotation of the shaft in the housing displaces laterally the shaft and the self-aligning bearing carried by the shaft.
- the embodiments of the drive gear assembly shown in the drawings are arranged to transfer power from a motor 3 to a driven gear 7 of a mechanical system (not shown) .
- the drive gear assembly (which is drawn without a gear case but may be with a gear case) shown in the figure includes:
- the drive gear assembly further includes a self- aligning bearing in the form of a spherical bearing 23 that is located axially in the central bore of the drive gear 9 and supports the drive gear 9 for rotary movement, typically 'in the form of a rocking or wobbling motion, around the center of the spherical bearing 23.
- the spherical bearing 23 is located so that the geometric centre of the spherical bearing 23 coincides with the point at which the moments of the operating force systems that act on the drive gear 9 and the driven gear 7 are in equilibrium. In some cases, the location of this point may be such that the spherical bearing 23 will have to be positioned beyond the extremities of the gear teeth.
- the drive gear assembly further includes an assembly which supports the spherical bearing 23 and which is in the form of a stub shaft 27 mounted in a housing 25.
- One end of the stub shaft 27 extends through the central hole 29 in the face plate 13 of the drive gear 9 and carries the spherical bearing 23.
- the other end of the stub shaft 27 has an eccentric lobe which is located in the housing 25, whereby rotation of the stub shaft 27 in the housing 25 laterally displaces the stub shaft 27, the spherical bearing 23, and the drive gear 9 with respect to the driven gear 7. It is noted that the eccentric lobe may be located in the spherical bearing 23 instead of the housing 25.
- the drive gear assembly further includes a pair of flexible joints 15 and a telescopic shaft 17 which connect together the joints 15.
- the left hand joint 15 is connected to a drive shaft 5 of the motor 3 and the right hand joint 15 is connected to the face plate 11 of the drive gear.
- This arrangement transfers power from the motor 3 to the drive gear 9.
- this arrangement drives the drive gear 9 causing it to rotate about the center of the spherical bearing 23 and allows lateral movement .
- the support assembly for the spherical bearing 23 is in the form of a stub shaft 27 that is supported by an "E" bracket 31 that is mounted on a pedestal 35 on the left-hand side of the drive gear as viewed in the drawings.
- the support assembly for the spherical bearing 23 is in the form of a hollow shaft 33 supported in housings 37 on pedestals 35.
- the right-hand end of the hollow shaft 33 carries the spherical bearing 23.
- the hollow shaft 33 includes eccentric lobes 39 that are located in the housings 37, whereby rotation of the hollow shaft 33 laterally displaces the hollow shaft 33.
- the eccentric lobes 37 may be located within the spherical bearing 23 instead of the bearing housings 37.
- the telescopic shaft 17 extends through the hollow shaft 33 and a reversed flexible joint 41 is coupled to the end of the telescopic shaft 17 and to the face plate 11 (now on the right-hand face of the drive gear 9 as viewed in Figure 4) of the drive gear and thereby transfers power from the motor 3 to the drive gear (ie. drive gear 9) .
- This arrangement also accommodates lateral movement of the drive gear.
- the self-aligning bearing is in the form of a constant velocity joint 43 which is modified to accept externally applied radial and axial forces .
- the constant velocity joint 43 is mounted on a shaft 53 which is connected to the right-hand side flexible joint 15.
- the shaft 53 is supported for lateral movement by bearings (not shown) retained in housings 55 on pedestals 35.
- the drive gear assembly makes it possible to quickly and easily align drive and driven gears with a required backlash for optimum performance.
- the drive gear assembly makes it possible to achieve alignment to a high degree at initial set-up and to maintain the alignment during operation and this minimises wear on gear teeth.
- This is a particularly important advantage in many situations.
- the pinion is generally a quite small diameter gear, with generally less than 30 teeth
- the driven girth gear is essentially the diameter of the mill shell, which may result anywhere in the order of 200 to 400 teeth.
- the simple result of this geometry is that girth gears may be up to 8 to 10 times more expensive than pinions. The designer therefore strives to protect the girth gear at the expense of the pinion.
- the designer Apart from attempting to achieve minimum wear as a result of the quality of the initial alignment, the designer also gives considerable thought to the metallurgy of the girth gear relative to the pinion.
- the pinion is of a somewhat harder material than the girth gear, the differential being premised on a consensus over wear, especially recognising that there will always be less than perfect alignment in a conventional mill situation. This is not the case with the present invention, where essentially perfect alignment is produced.
- the designer can contemplate metallurgy which produces harder girth gears and thus less wear in the gears and longer times between replacement, whilst not compromising the overriding imperative of preferentially protecting the more expensive girth gear.
- the self-aligning bearing may be any conventional "one-piece" commercially available self- aligning bearing such as a spherical roller or self- aligning ball bearing or spherical plain bearing which has inherent thrust capacity that allows the drive gear assembly to be applied to both spur and helical gears, be they single or double external or internal gears. Accordingly, the drive gear assembly can be used in current gear systems.
- misalignment is now limited to the allowable angular misalignment of the spherical bearing and not to the allowable misalignment of an internal geared coupling and therefore significantly higher angular misalignments can be accommodated.
- the motor does not require accurate alignment with the drive gear assembly.
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EP00918574A EP1200754A1 (en) | 1999-04-19 | 2000-04-18 | A drive gear assembly |
AU39464/00A AU3946400A (en) | 1999-04-19 | 2000-04-18 | A drive gear assembly |
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