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Tooth Thickness Measurement With Pins or Balls

This document discusses using pins or balls to measure tooth thickness in gears. It provides standard pin diameters for different gear types based on pressure angle and whether the gear is external or internal. Formulas are given for calculating the ideal pin diameter for straight gears, helical gears, internal gears, gear racks, and worms based on parameters like module, pressure angle, and number of teeth. Standard sizes are selected when the ideal diameter calculation does not give a practical result.

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Tooth Thickness Measurement With Pins or Balls

This document discusses using pins or balls to measure tooth thickness in gears. It provides standard pin diameters for different gear types based on pressure angle and whether the gear is external or internal. Formulas are given for calculating the ideal pin diameter for straight gears, helical gears, internal gears, gear racks, and worms based on parameters like module, pressure angle, and number of teeth. Standard sizes are selected when the ideal diameter calculation does not give a practical result.

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Tooth thickness measurement with pins or

balls
This measuring method is similar to that used for the control of screw threads. The diameter of
the pin is chosen in such a way that this is in contact with the tooth flanks at the pitch diameter
and, on the other hand, is larger than the tip circle located in tooth spaces that are diametrically
opposed towards each other.

The pin diameter can be calculated in function of the module of the gear parameters, namely: the
module pressure angle correction number of teeth. The calculated diameter does not always
give a practical diameter as a result, therefore is then chosen for a standard pin diameter which is
available. For gears with normal teeth without correction one uses usually standard pins whose
diameters are located approximately on the following values:

1.75 m for external gears with a pressure angle of a = 20

1.7. m for external gears with a pressure angle of a = 1430

1.65 m for internal gears with a pressure angle of a = 20

1.6. m for internal gears with a pressure angle of a = 1430

In order not to repeat details, we give only the main formulas for the different gear types.
1 Straight gear

Formula for the ideal pin diameter:


dp = z.m.cosa.(inv + )

The formula for calculating the diameter Md for an even number of teeth:
Md =
The formula for calculating the diameter Md for an odd number of teeth:
Md =

2 Helical teeth
Formula for the ideal pin diameter:
dp = zv.mn.cosan.(invv + )
The formula for calculating the diameter Md for an even number of teeth:
Md =
The formula for calculating the diameter Md for an odd number of teeth:
Md =
3 Internal gear

Formula for the ideal pin diameter:


dp = z.m.cosa.( inv)

The formula for calculating the diameter Md for an even number of teeth:
Md =
The formula for calculating the diameter Md for an odd number of teeth:
Md =

4 Gear racks with a straight or helical teeth


Straight teeth:

Formula for the ideal pin diameter:


dp =

The formula for the calculation of the size Md:


Md =

Helical teeth:

Formula for the ideal pin diameter:


dp =
The formula for the calculation of the size Md:
Md =

5 Measurement of worms with 3 pins


Formula for the ideal pin diameter:
dp =
The formula for the calculation of the size Md:

Md =

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