gear rack for Machine Tool Industry

This integrated and coordinated development of thermoforming machines and tools is our most important customer benefit and gear rack for Machine Tool Industry unique on the thermoforming market. With the extensive know-how of our skilled experts in both tool and machine engineering, our customers benefit from a unique synergy effect leading to a higher service life of both machine and tools, in addition to an optimal formed part quality. We try to surpass your targets and ensure your success with this quality.
For years, a machine tool builder had produced their own precision gear racks to accomplish ultra-precise positioning on their machines. They also needed this because their critical clients demanded that their machines maintain accurate positioning with no error compensation on the axis.
To save lots of costs, they wished to look for a gear rack provider who could achieve the same limited rack tolerances and performance level that that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide variety of regular rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Precision DIN 4 (UHPR) gear rack, which got a complete pitch deviation of 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 power the customer required, the root of the teeth were hardened together with the tooth flanks. Finally, precision grinding was utilized to achieve the required flatness tolerances on the trunk and sides of the rack.
At Industrial Sprockets & Gears, Inc., we can handle manufacturing complex gears and sprockets that no other manufacturers can generate. The part shown this is a helical equipment rack that can be used on a Maag gear manufacturing machine. The gear rack is 6′ lengthy, has a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is made from 4130 steel.

The customer needed a replacement part which is necessary to the operation of their machine and had previously been struggling to find someone with the capability to cut the required size of helical rack. Many times customers e mail us because OEM parts are no longer available or are price prohibitive. Often, customers have found that the quality of replacement parts made by us exceed the product quality their OEM parts.

Many of our projects are unique within the sector and represent probably the most challenging sizes and geometries of gears produced today. We maintain an array of rare gear shaping devices along with advanced CNC milling and turning centers, which allows us to make a vast array of gear, sprocket, work, and rack sizes, styles, and patterns.

The rack was manufactured on a specialized CNC gear rack milling machine to tolerances as tight as ±0.001″. The client was not only very happy to find a producer capable of producing the part; they remarked that the product quality far exceeded their expectations. We created this helical gear rack with a business lead time of only two weeks. For additional information about this custom equipment rack machining project, e mail us directly.
A rack and pinion drive program consists of a rack (or a “linear gear”) and a pinion (or “circular gear”). The teeth of a rack and pinion drive can be straight or helical, although helical the teeth are often used because of their higher load capability and quieter procedure. For a rack and pinion drive system, the maximum force which can be transmitted is largely determined by the tooth pitch and the size of the pinion.