Fair warning: watching this hybrid manufacturing method for gear teeth may result in an uncontrollable urge to buy a fiber laser cutter. Hackaday isn’t responsible for any financial difficulties that ...

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.

The broaching process, similar to shaping with multiple teeth, is used to machine internal and external surfaces such as holes of circular, square, or irregular shapes, keyways and teeth of internal ...

Mazak’s Integrex e-1250V/8 AG incorporates the Auto Gear package, thus combining gear processing with full 5-axis machining, and heavy-duty turning operations, plus pallet-changing capabilities for ...

Even before the Industrial Revolution, gears of one kind or another have been put to work both for and against us. From ancient water wheels and windmills that ground grain and pounded flax, to the ...

A recently granted patent (Publication Number: US11998973B2) discloses a method for manufacturing gears using a unique process involving the rotation of a workpiece and a tool around different axes ...