A machine builder has an program to rotate tooling around an gear rack for Aerospace Industry china aerospace element and wish to use a curved rack and pinion drive to do this. To maintain accurate positioning, there would be two axis drives to rotate the axis and remove backlash using electrical preloading.

The curved rack would be a special design simply by the customer based on the device requirements and the look envelope they need to work with.
ATLANTA could work with the client on the design of the curved rack to improve it’s manufacturability and confirm that it would become able to handle the application loading. The rack was produced as a particular item and used ATLANTA’s vast experience 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 provided a compact design to reduce the amount of torque needed at the reducer output. The reducer supplied a rigid support of the flanged pinion and allowed for a sizable reduction ratio to have the motor increase as high as possible.
What is a gear rack? A rack and pinion can be a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear movement. A circular equipment called the pinion engages tooth on a linear gear bar called the apparatus rack. Rotational motion applied to the pinion causes the apparatus 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 certainly are a several machines using gear racks. Gear racks are also used in robotics, CNC routers, materials managing systems, automation systems, and the aerospace industry.

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