Patent GB-1016849-A (GB)
Title: Vertical right angle speed reducer
IPC: F16H1/20
Filed: 1964-01-24
Abstract: 1,016,849. Toothed gearing; lubricating. THE FALK CORPORATION. Jan. 24, 1964 [April 1, 1963], No. 3161/64. Headings F2A and F2Q. A box-like housing 10 having a removable cover 11, together with a high-speed gear housing 12 (or 84, Fig. 7), bolted to an end wall 17 of the housing 10, may be used to enclose a two, three, or four stage reduction gear. Circular openings 29, 30, 18 in the base 15 of the housing 10 lie in vertical alignment with openings 51, 52, 53 respectively in the cover 11, to receive vertical shafts of the gear. In a threestage vertical right-angle speed reducer, Fig. 1, an input shaft 70 drives a vertical output shaft 19 through bevel gears 71, 45, a shaft 31, meshed gears 44, 40, a shaft 32, and meshed gears 42, 22. The shaft 70 runs in outer bearings 68 in the wall 67 of the housing 12, and in an inner bearing 69 in a bearing plate 61, located in a bore 62 in the end wall 17 of the housing 10 and bolted to the housing 12. In a two-stage speed reducer, Fig. 7, an input shaft 90 drives a vertical output shaft 76 through bevel gears 91, 82, a shaft 32, and meshed gears 42, 22, shaft openings 29, 51 being blanked off. The inner bearing 89 of the input shaft 90 is supported in a frusto-conical member 85 located in the bore 62 and bolted to the housing 12. In a four-stage speed reducer, Fig. 9, a modified high-speed gear housing 12 containing a first reduction stage, comprising gears 99 and 100, is bolted to the housing 10 containing the gear shown in Fig. 1. An input shaft 98 and an intermediate horizontal shaft 95 carrying the bevel gear 71 run in inner bearings 97, 69 respectively, both located in the plate 61. Lubrication of the lower bearings of the vertical shafts is by immersion in oil filling the lower portion of the housing 10, lateral bores 103 in the base 15 allowing oil to pass through annular recesses in bearing retainers 37, 39 and bores 104 to the lower sides of the bearings. An exception is the bearing 20, Fig. 1, for the output shaft 19 which is grease lubricated, a labyrinth oil deflector plate 23 on the shaft 19 sealing the grease compartment from the rest of the housing. Oil for the upper bearings 56, 43, 25 passes from a header bolted to the top of the high-speed gear housing through a bush 129 and horizontal bores 105, 106, 109, 110 in the cover 11, to reach the bearing upper faces through vertical bores 107 and passages 108 in the bearing retainers. Ports 112 or 113 in the bearing plates 61 or 85 respectively allow oil into the high-speed gear housing from which it is raised by a slinger 115 (Fig. 1), or 130 (Fig. 7), or a pump 136 driven by a gear 140 meshed with the gear 100 (Fig. 9) to the oil header 124 (Fig. 1), 132 (Fig. 7), or 138 (Fig. 9). The header 132 contains water-cooled cooling coils 134. For low temperature conditions, a scraper 117 (Fig. 1) having a pair of cavities 118 in its face, scoops oil from the flange 115 of the slinger 114, the oil being forced through tubes 119 and bores 123, 125 into the header 124. In Fig. 7, the inner bearing 89 of the input shafts is lubricated by oil from the slinger 130 running down a channel 143. Fig. 9 shows an oil spray pipe 144 supplying the input shaft outer bearing 96 with oil from the header 138.