Patent GB-1105023-A (GB)
Title: Method of and apparatus for producing, by rolling, toothings on cylindrical rotary bodies
IPC: B21H5/00
Filed: 1965-04-28
Abstract: 1,105,023. Rolling. F. F. ERDELYI. 28 April, 1965 [16 May, 1964], No. 17903/65. Heading B3M. Teeth are rolled on a workpiece 1 by at least three coacting toothed wheels 11, Fig. 4, the wheels meshing with a master wheel 7, Fig. 3, which controls the pitch of the teeth produced on the workpiece. A tooth rolling machine comprises a base A, Fig. 1, on which are mounted a housing B which supports wheel 7, a housing C which supports wheels 11, a housing E which supports a ram 4 for clamping the workpiece and feeding it through wheels 11, and a housing D which supports a workpiece supply and delivery means. Each of the wheels 11 is mounted in an eccentric 21, Fig. 4, the axis of which is skewed with respect to the axis of wheel 7, and a toothed segment 15 is secured to each eccentric. A wheel 91 carries removable toothed segments 14 which mesh with the segments 15; and the wheel has teeth 18, Figs. 3 and 4, which mesh with a rack, 17. Rack 17, is screwed on to a spindle 16, Fig. 4, and the spindle can be moved axially by an hydraulic piston 28, or rotated to adjust the position of the rack by a hand wheel 22. Wheel 7 is mounted in a sleeve 8, Fig. 3, and the latter is rotated by an electric motor through a belt drive, spindle 34 and gears 31- 33, and the sleeve is moved axially by a single acting hydraulic unit 37, Fig. 1. Ram 4 is mounted in a sleeve 39, Fig. 3, and this sleeve is rotated by spindle 34, and is moved axially by a double acting hydraulic unit 45, Fig. 1. The workpiece supply means comprises two adjustable rails 64, Fig. 6, with movable flaps 65, 66, a work support 3, and two slides 62, 63 actuated by a lever 61, which allow the supply of individual workpieces. The finished workpieces are ejected through a chute 67, Fig. 1, by a slide 59, which also provides the movement of lever 61, and the slide is actuated by an hydraulic unit 60, Fig. 4. The positions of housings B and E can be adjusted by screwed spindles 68, 70, Fig. 1. The rolling wheels 11 have entry and exit cones (77), (78), of conical form, Figs. 13, 14 (not shown), and the teeth on the wheels may have profiles of elliptical, ellipsoidal, prismatoidal &c. forms. The workpieces may be cooled through a pipe connection (88), Figs. 7 and 8 (not shown). In operation a work blank drops on to holder 3,ram 4 and wheel 7 are moved towards each other; ram 4 which may have a pilot end 4a moves the workpiece through a centring sleeve 5 and the workpiece is clamped between the ram 4 and wheel 7. Rack 17 is moved axially by unit 28 and the rolling wheels 11 are pivoted to move radially and engage the wheel 7. The ram and wheel 7 are rotated, and due to the skewing of the wheels 11, which are driven by wheel 7, and also the force supplied by the ram, the workpiece is moved to the left, Fig. 3, through wheels 11, to thus have teeth rolled thereon. To reduce wear on wheels 11, they are relieved of pressure after a workpiece has been completed, by moving spindle 16. After the deformation of the workpiece, the direction of rotation of wheels 11 may be reversed, so as to improve the surface finish of the teeth. Instead of wheels 11 being driven by wheel 7, they may be driven directly.