- Gear trains transmit power from one shaft to another using meshing gears. There are four main types: simple, compound, reverted, and epicyclic.
- A simple gear train has one gear on each shaft. The driver gear transmits motion to the driven gear. The speed ratio is the inverse of the gear teeth ratios.
- A compound gear train has multiple gears on some shafts to bridge larger distances between the driver and driven gears. Each intermediate shaft has two rigidly fixed gears, one meshing with the driver and one with the next shaft's gear.
- Gear trains transmit power from one shaft to another using meshing gears. There are four main types: simple, compound, reverted, and epicyclic.
- A simple gear train has one gear on each shaft. The driver gear transmits motion to the driven gear. The speed ratio is the inverse of the gear teeth ratios.
- A compound gear train has multiple gears on some shafts to bridge larger distances between the driver and driven gears. Each intermediate shaft has two rigidly fixed gears, one meshing with the driver and one with the next shaft's gear.
- Gear trains transmit power from one shaft to another using meshing gears. There are four main types: simple, compound, reverted, and epicyclic.
- A simple gear train has one gear on each shaft. The driver gear transmits motion to the driven gear. The speed ratio is the inverse of the gear teeth ratios.
- A compound gear train has multiple gears on some shafts to bridge larger distances between the driver and driven gears. Each intermediate shaft has two rigidly fixed gears, one meshing with the driver and one with the next shaft's gear.
- Gear trains transmit power from one shaft to another using meshing gears. There are four main types: simple, compound, reverted, and epicyclic.
- A simple gear train has one gear on each shaft. The driver gear transmits motion to the driven gear. The speed ratio is the inverse of the gear teeth ratios.
- A compound gear train has multiple gears on some shafts to bridge larger distances between the driver and driven gears. Each intermediate shaft has two rigidly fixed gears, one meshing with the driver and one with the next shaft's gear.
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GEAR TRAINS
Introduction to the gear train
Definition: When two or more gears are made to mesh with each other to transmit power from one shaft to another, such a combination is called ‘gear train or train of toothed wheels’.
Types of gear trains:
1. Simple gear train, 2. Compound gear train, 3. Reverted gear train, and 4. Epicyclic gear train. Simple gear train Definition: When there is only one gear on each shaft as shown in fig., it is known as simple gear train.
When the distance between
two shafts is small, the two gears 1 and 2 are made to mesh with each other to transmit motion from one shaft to other as shown in fig. Since the gear 1 drives 2, therefore gear 1 is called the driver and the gear 2 is called the driven or follower. Simple gear train Since the speed ratio of gear train is the ratio of the speed of the driver to the speed of the driven or follower and the ratio of speeds of any pair of gears in mesh is the inverse of their number of teeth, therefore
Speed ratio = =
It may be noted that ratio of the speed of the driven to
the speed of the driver is known as train value of the gear train. Mathematically,
Train value = = Sometimes, the distance between the two gears is large. The motion from one gear to another, in such a case, may be transmitted by either of the following two methods : 1. By providing the large sized gear, or 2. By providing one or more intermediate gears.
A little consideration will show that the former method
is very inconvenient and uneconomical ; whereas the latter method is very economical.
It may be noted that when the number of intermediate
gears odd, the motion of both gears is like but if the number of intermediate gears even, the motion of both gears is unlike. It is seen that the speed ratio and the train value of gears, is independent of the size and the number of intermediate gears.
These intermediate gears are called idle gears, as they
do not effect the speed ratio or train value of the system.
The idle gears are used for the following two purposes :
1. To connect gears where a large distance is required,
and 2. To obtain the desired direction of motion of the driven gear(i.e. clockwise or anticlockwise). Compound gear train Definition: When there are more than one gear a shaft as shown in fig., it is known as compound gear train.
Compound gear trains are
useful in bridging over the space between the driver and the driven. Compound gear train Whenever the distance between the driver and the driven has to be bridged over by intermediate gears and at the same time a great speed ratio is required, then the advantage of intermediate gears is intensified by providing compound gears on intermediate shafts. In this case, each intermediate shaft has two gears rigidly fixed to it so they may have the same speed. One of these two gears mashes with the driver and the other with the driven attached to the next shaft as shown in fig. Speed ratio of compound gear train is given by,
Speed ratio
Train value of compound gear train is given by,
Train value
The advantage of compound train over a simple train is
that a much longer speed reduction from one shaft to the last shaft can be obtained with small gears. Thank you
