miter gear

Miter gears are 1 kind of bevel gears where the two rotational axes intersect. When speaking of narrow description of bevel gears with ability to increase or decrease speed, miter gears do not have that ability because of the pair’s same quantity of teeth. Their purpose is limited to the modification in transmission direction. Because they are a kind of bevel gears, the basic characteristic of bevel gears can be found such as for example presence of gear kinds of straight cut, spiral cut and types.

Also, because the shafts could be set to any angle, right now there are miter gears with non-90 degree (non-perpendicular) angle called angular miter gears. Ever-power can be capable of creating angular miter gears with shaft angles in the number of 45 to 120 degrees.

Because a couple of straight tooth miter gears gets the same number of teeth, with the exception of minor differences such as collection screw holes and key methods, the same two gears can mate with each other. However, in the case of spiral miter gears, even when the amount of teeth will be the same, the twisting directions are different. Therefore, the same gear cannot be meshed together, and it is required to pair the proper and remaining handed pairs.

Bevel gears are classified in miter gear china different types according to geometry:

Right bevel gears have conical pitch surface area and teeth are direct and tapering towards apex.