A machine builder has an software to rotate tooling around an Aerospace element and want to use a curved rack and pinion drive to do this. To keep up accurate positioning, there will be two axis drives to rotate the axis and remove backlash using electric preloading.
The curved rack will be a special design simply by the customer based on the machine requirements and the design gear rack for Aerospace Industry china envelope they need to work with.
ATLANTA was able to work with the client on the look of the curved rack to improve it’s manufacturability and confirm that it would end up being able to handle the application form loading. The rack was produced as a special item and utilized ATLANTA’s vast encounter and knowledge in gear production.
A precision planetary reducer was selected with a ISO flanged pinion mounted to the output to drive on the rack. The flanged pinion offered a compact design to reduce the quantity of torque needed at the reducer output. The reducer provided a rigid support of the flanged pinion and allowed for a huge reduction ratio to find the motor increase as high as possible.
What is a equipment rack? A rack and pinion is certainly a set of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion. A circular gear known as the pinion engages the teeth on a linear gear bar called the gear rack. Rotational motion applied to the pinion causes the apparatus rack to move, thereby 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. Equipment racks are also found in robotics, CNC 
routers, material managing systems, automation systems, and the aerospace sector.
We also offer custom gear rack manufacturing. We can manufacture equipment racks in various materials such as for example plastic, brass, metal and aluminum. We are able to 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 are able to also produce gears with pin hubs, clamp hubs, or hubless.
We manufacture a multitude of gear types complete or can cut gear teeth on consumer supplied blanks. We make rack and pinion gears, face gears, ring gears and other unique gears for the next industries: aviation, defense and aerospace instrumentation, industrial, energy, general market and equipment, healthcare, leisure, musical instrument, power tool, scientific research and transportation. Ever-Power manufactures gears using modern machining methods to customer specifications.