Patent GB-940360-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to machines for running together pairs of gears
IPC: B23F19/02
Filed: 1962-06-04
Abstract: 940,360. Lapping gears. GLEASON WORKS. June 4, 1962 [June 26, 1961], No. 21562/62. Heading B3D. A machine for imparting to pairs of gears, when run together for finishing, the relative motions effected by the machine disclosed in Specification 892,347, comprises a frame 10 supporting a housing 21 carrying a spindle 12 for a gear G, a plate 28 supporting a housing 15 for a spindle 16 of a pinion P, the plate 28 being supported for movement relative to the frame in a plane parallel to both spindles, a pair of levers, 38, 43, pivoted about axes perpendicular to this plane and connecting the plate to the frame and transmitting to the plate angular and translational motions relative to the frame in the same plane and means for effecting such motions, namely oscillation about a vertical axis 40 passing through the meshing zone of the gears, reciprocation along the pinion axis 17, in time with the oscillation, and along the gear axis 13 to maintain the required back-lash during these motions. Preliminary adjustments of the housings 15 and 21 and the movement of the pinion from a loading to a meshing position are effected by three knobs, 22, 33, 26. The plate 28 is supported by the frame 10 on groups of anti-friction bearings 36, Fig. 3, and the cranked lever 43 is pivoted to the frame at 44. A pin 39 on the lever 38 engages the plate 28 on the axis 40 directly below the meshing zone, Fig. 2; the opposite end of the lever carries a roller 45 which engages a plane cam shoe 46 rotatably adjustable in a horizontally movable slide 47. The cranked lever 43 is pin-jointed to the lever 38 at 42 and carries at its free end a similar roller and cam 49, 51, correspondingly mounted in the slide 47. A third roller 52 engages a similarly adjustable two-faced cam 54 to operate an arm 53 integral with the plate 28 to cause oscillation thereof about the axis 40 as the slide 47 is moved by the oscillating action of a cam 64 and roller 66 carried by the lower face of the slide, the cam being chain-driven by a reversible motor 76 and the slide being moved by it against a spring 67. The motor is reversed by a plate 78 carrying adjustable cams 86, 87 and 91, 92 which actuate motor-controlling switches 81, 82, respectively. The stroke of the slide 47 and the inclination of the cam shoes 46, 51, 54 relative thereto are all adjustable by the means shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The movement of the cam 64 is controlled by the positioning of the cams carried by the plate 78 to vary the etroke of the slide 47 on either side of a mean position. The two-faced cam 54 is rotatable about a stud 71 by a graduated rod 74 to vary the magnitude and direction of oscillation about the axis 40 for a given stroke of the slide 47; notches 73 in the cam periphery are engaged by a screw 72 to secure the cam in its adjusted position. Cams 46 and 51 are carried by sleeves 113, 94 rotatable within the slide by the hydraulic means shown in Fig. 5, the spindle 93 of the cam 51 being eccentrically mounted within its sleeve 94 to permit of sideways adjustment. Adjustable counters, not shown, enable a selected number of oscillations of the cam 64 to be made whilst the pinion is driven in one direction by a motor 34 and another selected number when running in the reverse direction. The reversing switch for the motor 34 also operates a solenoid-controlled valve to reverse the pistons controlling the rotary adjustment of the cam shoe 51 whereby its angular position is shifted according to the direction of drive of the pinion. The cam shoe 46 has hydraulically operated means for securing it in four different positions, namely for clockwise and counterclockwise displacement of the plate 28 about the axis 40 during forward running of the gears and for similar displacements when running in reverse. Specification 892,347 is referred to.