A machine builder has an app to rotate tooling around an Aerospace component and want to use a curved rack and pinion drive to do this. To keep up accurate positioning, there would be two axis drives to rotate the axis and remove backlash using electrical preloading.

The curved rack would be a special design simply by the customer based on the machine requirements and the design envelope they need to work with.
ATLANTA was able to work with the customer on the design of the curved rack to improve it’s manufacturability and concur that it would end up being able to handle the application form loading. The rack was created as a particular item and used ATLANTA’s vast encounter and knowledge in gear production.

A precision planetary reducer was selected with a ISO flanged pinion mounted to the output to operate a vehicle on the rack. The flanged pinion offered a compact style to reduce the amount of torque needed at the reducer output. The reducer provided a rigid support of the flanged pinion and allowed for a huge reduction ratio to have the motor increase as high as feasible.
What is a equipment rack? A rack and pinion can be a couple of gears which convert rotational movement into linear motion. A circular gear called the pinion engages the teeth on a linear equipment bar called the apparatus rack. Rotational motion put on the pinion causes the gear rack to move, therefore translating the rotational motion of the pinion into the linear movement of the apparatus rack.

Automotive steering, milling machines, grinders, and meat processing machines certainly are a few of the machines using gear racks. Gear racks are also used in robotics, CNC routers, material managing systems, automation systems, and the aerospace industry.

We also offer customized gear rack production. We can manufacture equipment racks in a variety of materials such as for example plastic, brass, steel and aluminum. We can also manufacture spur gears, bevel gears, helical gears, equipment clusters, metric gears, anti-backlash gears, worm gears, gear blanks, gear stock, pinion shafts, ratchets and pawls. We can also manufacture gears with pin hubs, clamp hubs, or hubless.
We manufacture a multitude of equipment types complete or will certainly cut gear teeth upon client supplied blanks. We make rack and pinion gears, face gears, ring gears and other particular gears for the next industries: gear rack for Aerospace Industry china aviation, defense and aerospace instrumentation, industrial, energy, general market and equipment, healthcare, leisure, musical instrument, saw, scientific analysis and transportation. Ever-Power manufactures gears using contemporary machining solutions to customer specifications.