TYPES OF GEARS

Spur Gear:

This is a cylindrical shaped gear in which the teeth are parallel to the axis. It has the largest applications and, also, it is the easiest to manufacture.

Helical Gear :

This is a cylindrical shaped gear with helicoid teeth. Helical gears can bear more load than spur gears, and work more quietly. They are widely used in industry. A disadvantage is the axial thrust force the helix form causes.

Double Helical Gear:

 This is a gear with both left-hand and right-hand helical teeth. The double helical form balances the inherent thrust forces.

Screw Gear (Crossed Helical Gear):

 Two helical gears of opposite helix angle will mesh if their axes are crossed. As separate gear components, they are merely conventional helical gears. Installation on crossed axes converts them to screw gears. They offer a simple means of gearing skew axes at any angle. Because they have point contact, their load carrying capacity is very limited.

Spur Rack:

 This is a linear shaped gear which can mesh with a spur gear with any number of teeth. The spur rack is a portion of a spur gear with an infinite radius.

Helical Rack:

 This is a linear shaped gear which meshes with a helical gear. Again, it can be regarded as a portion of a helical gear with infinite radius.

Face Gear :

 This is a pseudobevel gear that is limited to 90O intersecting axes. The face gear is a circular disc with a ring of teeth cut in its side face; hence the name face gear. Tooth elements are tapered towards its center. The mate is an ordinary spur gear. It offers no advantages over the standard bevel gear, except that it can be fabricated on an ordinary shaper gear generating machine.

Straight Bevel Gear :

 This is a gear in which the teeth have tapered conical elements that have the same direction as the pitch cone base line (generatrix). The straight bevel gear is both the simplest to produce and the most widely applied in the bevel gear family.

Internal Gear:

 This is a cylindrical shaped gear but with the teeth inside the circular ring. It can mesh with a spur gear. Internal gears are often used in planetary gear systems.

Spiral Bevel Gear:

 This is a bevel gear with a helical angle of spiral teeth. It is much more complex to manufacture, but offers a higher strength and lower noise.

Zerol Gear:

  Zerol gear is a special case of spiral bevel gear. It is a spiral bevel with zero degree of spiral angle tooth advance. It has the characteristics of both the straight and spiral bevel gears. The forces acting upon the tooth are the same as for a straight bevel gear.

Hypoid Gear:

 This is a deviation from a bevel gear that originated as a special development for the automobile industry. This permitted the drive to the rear axle to be nonintersecting, and thus allowed the auto body to be lowered. It looks very much like the spiral bevel gear. However, it is complicated to design and is the most difficult to produce on a bevel gear generator.

Worm And Worm Gear:

 Worm set is the name for a meshed worm and worm gear. The worm resembles a screw thread; and the mating worm gear a helical gear, except that it is made to envelope the worm as seen along the worm’s axis. The outstanding feature is that the worm offers a very large gear ratio in a single mesh. However, transmission efficiency is very poor due to a great amount of sliding as the worm tooth engages with its mating worm gear tooth and forces rotation by pushing and sliding. With proper choices of materials and lubrication, wear can be contained and noise is reduced.

Double Enveloping Worm Gear:

 This worm set uses a special worm shape in that it partially envelops the worm gear as viewed in the direction of the worm gear axis. Its big advantage over the standard worm is much higher load capacity. However, the worm gear is very complicated to design and produce, and sources for manufacture are few.

Herringbone gear:

Two helical gears with opposing helical angles Two helical gears with opposing helical angles side-by-side „ Axial thrust gets cancelled.