The teeth of teeth of involute gears hobs and teeth for involute spline shaft hobs have a trapezoidal profile. In the U.S. a huge volume of good quality hobs are produced, and offers potential for ...

Some spare time recently got used-up designing a pair of involute gears – which, it transpires, is easy in principle, once certain almost-impossible-to-obtain facts have been gathered. There are ...

Following an earlier proposal for transcribing the angle of hob profile teeth measured in inches, our correspondent now describes how to execute a similar task with metric measurements: “The U.S.

A new approach to gear skiving, a specialized machining technique for producing internal gears, could improve the speed and ...

Invention of the gear-hobbing process about 150 years ago revolutionized not only gear fabrication, but also gear design. Basically, a hob or shaper cutter traverses the gear blank to generate teeth.