Types of Gears

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Spur Gear Helical Gear Herringbone Gear Bevel Gear Worm Gear Rack and Pinion Internal and External Gear Face Gear Sprcokets
1) Spur Gear-Parallel and co-planer shafts connected by gears are called spur gears.
The arrangement is called spur gearing. Spur gears have straight teeth and are parallel to the axis of the wheel. Spur gears are the most common type of gears. The advantages of spur gears are their simplicity in design, economy of manufacture and maintenance, and absence of end thrust. They impose only radial loads on the bearings. Spur gears are known as slow speed gears. If noise is not a serious design problem, spur gears can be used at almost any speed.
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Helical Gear-Helical gears have their teeth inclined to the axis of the shafts in the form
of a helix, hence the name helical gears. These gears are usually thought of as high speed gears. Helical gears can take higher loads than similarly sized spur gears. The motion of helical gears is smoother and quieter than the motion of spur gears. Single helical gears impose both radial loads and thrust loads on their bearings and so require the use of thrust bearings. The angle of the helix on both the gear and the must be same in magnitude but opposite in direction, i.e., a right hand pinion meshes with a left hand gear.
3)
Herringbone Gear - Herringbone
gears resemble two helical gears that have been placed side by side. They are often referred to as "double helicals". In the double helical gears arrangement, the thrusts are counter-balanced. In such double helical gears there is no thrust loading on the bearings.
4) Bevel/Miter Gear-Intersecting but coplanar shafts connected by gears are called bevel gears. This arrangement is known as bevel gearing. Straight bevel gears can be used on shafts at any angle, but right angle is the most common. Bevel Gears have conical blanks. The teeth of straight bevel gears are tapered in both thickness and tooth height.
Spiral Bevel gears: In these Spiral Bevel gears, the teeth are oblique. Spiral Bevel gears
are quieter and can take up more load as compared to straight bevel gears.
Zero Bevel gear: Zero Bevel gears are similar to straight bevel gears, but their teeth are
curved lengthwise. These curved teeth of zero bevel gears are arranged in a manner that the effective spiral angle is zero.
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Worm Gear- Worm gears are used to transmit power at 90 and where high reductions
are required. The axes of worm gears shafts cross in space. The shafts of worm gears lie in parallel planes and may be skewed at any angle between zero and a right angle.In worm gears, one gear has screw threads. Due to this, worm gears are quiet, vibration free and give a smooth output.Worm gears and worm gear shafts are almost invariably at right angles.
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Rack and Pinion- A rack is a toothed bar or rod that can be thought of as a sector gear
with an infinitely large radius of curvature. Torque can be converted to linear force by meshing a rack with a pinion: the pinion turns; the rack moves in a straight line. Such a mechanism is used in automobiles to convert the rotation of the steering wheel into the leftto-right motion of the tie rod(s). Racks also feature in the theory of gear geometry, where, for instance, the tooth shape of an interchangeable set of gears may be specified for the rack (infinite radius), and the tooth shapes for gears of particular actual radii then derived from that. The rack and pinion gear type is employed in a rack railway.
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Internal & External Gear- An external gear is one with the teeth formed on the
outer surface of a cylinder or cone. Conversely, an internal gear is one with the teeth formed on the inner surface of a cylinder or cone. For bevel gears, an internal gear is one with the pitch angle exceeding 90 degrees. Internal gears do not cause direction reversal.
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gears transmit power at (usually) right angles in a circular motion. Face gears are not very common in industrial application.
Face Gears- Face
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Sprockets-Sprockets are used to run chains or belts. They are typically used in conveyor
systems.
Gears may also be classified according to the position of axis of shaft: a.Parallel 1.Spur Gear 2.Helical Gear 3.Rack and Pinion b. Intersecting Bevel Gear c. Non-intersecting and Non-parallel worm and worm gears
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The gears or toothed wheels may be classified as follows: According to the position of axes of the shafts: The axes of the two shafts between which the motion is to be transmitted, may be: 1. Parallel, 2. Intersecting, and 3. Non-intersecting and non-parallel.
The two parallel and co-planar shafts connected by the gears are shown in fig. These gears are called spur gears and the arrangement is known as spur gearing. These gears have teeth parallel to the axis of the wheel as shown in fig. Another name given to the spur gearing is helical gearing, in which the teeth are inclined to the axis. The single and double helical gears connecting parallel shafts are shown in fig. (a) and (b) respectively. The double helical gears are known as herringbone gears. A pair of spur gears is kinematic ally equivalent to a pair of cylindrical discs, keyed to parallel shafts and having a line contact. The two non-parallel or intersecting, but coplanar shafts connected by gears are shown in fig. (c). These gears are called bevel gears and the arrangement is known as bevel gearing. The bevel gears, like spur gears, may also have their teeth inclined to the face of the bevel, in which case they are known as helical bevel gears.
The two non-intersecting and non-parallel i.e. non-coplanar shaft connected by gears is shown in fig. 12.2 (d). These gears are called skew bevel gears or spiral gears and the arrangement is known as skew bevel gearing or spiral gearing. This type of gearing also has a line contact, the rotation of which about the axes generates the two pitch surfaces known as hyperboloids.

Noted: When equal bevel gears (having equal teeth) connect two shafts whose axes are mutually perpendicular, then the bevel gears are known as mitres. A hyperboloid is the solid formed by revolving a straight line about an axis (not in the same plane), such that every point on the line remains at a constant distance from the axis. The worm gearing is essentially a form of spiral gearing in which the shafts are usually at right angles

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