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SPUR GEARS<br />

9.4 GEARING<br />

FIGURE 9.1 Terminology <strong>of</strong> gear teeth. A, addendum circle; B, pitch circle; C, clearance circle;<br />

D, dedendum circle; E, bottom land; F, top land; G, flank; H, face; a = addendum distance;<br />

b = dedendum distance; c = clearance distance; p = circular pitch; t = tooth thickness; u = undercut<br />

distance.<br />

meshing gears. Line E is the pressure line, and the angle φ is the pressure angle. The<br />

resultant force vector between a pair <strong>of</strong> operating gears acts along this line.<br />

The pressure line is tangent to both base circles C at points F. The operating diameters<br />

<strong>of</strong> the pitch circles depend on the center distance used in mounting the gears, but<br />

the base circle diameters are constant and depend only on how the tooth forms were<br />

generated, because they form the base or the starting point <strong>of</strong> the involute pr<strong>of</strong>ile.<br />

TABLE 9.1 Basic Formulas for Spur Gears<br />

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