Manufacturing Industry
Ship-shape machine beats gear deadlines. (Philadelphia Gear Corp.'s new gear-shaping machine) (Technology Focus: Power Transmission and Motion Control)
Mechanical Engineering-CIME, April, 1992 by O'Connor, Leo
A new Maag-Zurich SH 450/500 SE gear-shaping machine installed by Philadelphia Gear Corp (PGC) at its King of Prussia, PA, plant can produce gears at four times the rate of PGC's best grinders. The machine, which can cut pinions and gears from both soft and case-hardened workpieces, features a gear-rack-shaped cutter that moves in a reciprocating fashion as workpieces are indexed.
Philadelphia Gear Corp. has installed a gear-shaping machine at its plant in King of Prussia, Pa., that can make gears up to four times faster than the company's best grinders.
The new SH 450/500 SE machine was manufactured by Maag-Zurich (Zurich). It can cut gears and pinions from soft workpieces with Brinell hardness up to 400, as well as from those that have been case-hardened...
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