This integrated and coordinated development of thermoforming machines and tools is our most significant customer benefit and unique on the thermoforming market. With the intensive know-how of our skilled experts in both device and machine engineering, our clients benefit from a distinctive synergy effect that leads to a higher service existence of both machine and tools, and also an optimal formed part quality. We try to surpass your targets and make sure your success with this quality.
For years, a machine tool builder had manufactured their own precision gear racks to attain ultra-precise positioning on the machines. They also required this because their vital clients demanded that their devices maintain accurate positioning with no mistake compensation on the axis.
To save costs, they wished to find a gear rack supplier who could obtain the same restricted rack tolerances and performance level that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide selection of standard rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Accuracy DIN 4 (UHPR) gear rack, which got a total pitch deviation of gear rack for Machine Tool Industry significantly less than twelve microns (< 0.012 mm) over a a single meter length. The real pitch deviation was measured at 20º C and marked on each rack.
To achieve the high rack strength the customer required, the main of one’s teeth were hardened combined with the tooth flanks. Finally, precision grinding was used to achieve the required flatness tolerances on the back and sides of the rack.
At Industrial Sprockets & Gears, Inc., we are capable of manufacturing complex gears and sprockets that no various other manufacturers can generate. The part shown this is a helical gear rack that can be used on a Maag equipment manufacturing machine. The apparatus rack is 6′ long, has a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is made from 4130 steel.
The customer needed an upgraded part which is necessary to the procedure of their machine and had previously been unable to find someone with the capability to slice the required size of helical rack. Many times customers e mail us because OEM parts are no longer available or are cost prohibitive. Often, customers have found that the quality of replacement parts made by us exceed the quality their OEM parts.
Many of our projects are exclusive within the market and represent one of the most challenging sizes and geometries of gears produced today. We maintain an array of rare gear shaping tools and also advanced CNC milling and turning centers, which allows us to make a vast selection of gear, sprocket, work, and rack sizes, designs, and patterns.
The rack was produced on a specialized CNC gear rack milling machine to tolerances as tight as ±0.001″. The client was not only pleased to find a manufacturer with the capacity of producing the component; they remarked that the product quality far exceeded their goals. We created this helical equipment rack with a lead time of only two weeks. For additional information about this custom equipment rack machining project, contact us directly.
A rack and pinion drive system includes a rack (or a “linear gear”) and a pinion (or “circular gear”). One’s teeth of a rack and pinion drive could be directly or helical, although helical the teeth are often used because of their higher load capacity and quieter procedure. For a rack and pinion drive program, the maximum force which can be transmitted is basically dependant on the tooth pitch and the size of the pinion.