A machine builder has an application to rotate tooling around an Aerospace element and would like to use a curved rack and pinion drive to achieve this. To keep accurate positioning, there will be two axis drives to rotate the axis and remove backlash using gear rack for Aerospace Industry electric preloading.

The curved rack will be a special design simply by the customer based on the machine requirements and the design envelope they need to work with.
ATLANTA could work with the customer on the design of the curved rack to improve it’s manufacturability and concur that it would end up being able to handle the application loading. The rack was created as a special item and used ATLANTA’s vast encounter and knowledge in gear production.

A precision planetary reducer was chosen with a ISO flanged pinion mounted to the output to operate a vehicle on the rack. The flanged pinion offered a compact style to reduce the quantity of torque required at the reducer output. The reducer supplied a rigid support of the flanged pinion and allowed for a sizable reduction ratio to obtain the motor speed up as high as feasible.
What is a gear rack? A rack and pinion is usually a set of gears which convert rotational motion into linear movement. A circular gear known as the pinion engages teeth on a linear equipment bar called the apparatus rack. Rotational motion put on the pinion causes the gear rack to move, therefore translating the rotational motion of the pinion in to the linear motion of the gear rack.

Automotive steering, milling machines, grinders, and meat processing machines are a few of the machines using gear racks. Gear racks are also used in robotics, CNC routers, materials handling systems, automation systems, and the aerospace market.

We also offer customized gear rack manufacturing. We can manufacture gear racks in a variety of materials such as plastic, brass, steel and aluminum. We are able to also manufacture spur gears, bevel gears, helical gears, equipment clusters, metric gears, anti-backlash gears, worm gears, gear blanks, gear stock, pinion shafts, ratchets and pawls. We can also produce gears with pin hubs, clamp hubs, or hubless.
We manufacture a wide variety of equipment types complete or will certainly cut gear teeth upon consumer supplied blanks. We make rack and pinion gears, face gears, ring gears and other unique gears for the following industries: aviation, protection and aerospace instrumentation, industrial, energy, general industry and equipment, healthcare, leisure, musical instrument, saw, scientific research and transportation. Ever-Power manufactures gears using contemporary machining methods to customer specifications.