Bevel Gear
Bevel Gear
Used in a wide range of applications, bevel gears are common in machinery and gearboxes alike. Here at Highfield Gears, we have cutting-edge machinery and the capabilities in house to create bespoke bevel gears for your industrial bevel gearbox.
Our expert team has a range of cutting-edge equipment at their disposal, including gear cutting and grinding machines, CNC machines and load test facilities.
This equipment, combined with their expertise allows them to create new bevel gears that will have the correct speed ratio, strong corrosion resistance and are able to deal with heavy loads.
Our commitment to using high-grade materials and world-class equipment allows us to manufacture and create a broad selection of gears such as spur gears, helical gears, worm gears and double helical gears. As well as manufacturing individual gears, we also have the capabilities to repair, recondition or upgrade a variety of gearboxes, up to 18 tonnes, such as planetary gearboxes, worm gearboxes, extruder gearboxes and helical bevel gearboxes.
Get in touch today for more information about how we can help your business or organisation with its individual gear components or industrial gearboxes. We have worked with countless businesses, such as Liberty Steel and Tata Steel, in the UK, in areas such as Glasgow, Newcastle, and Sheffield, and further afield in Europe, so no matter where you are we can help – simply call us on 01484 531 010 or email us at sales@hgi-uk.co.uk.
What Is A Bevel Gear?
Broadly, the definition of a bevel gear is a cone-shaped, cylindrical type of gear that has the ability, because of the shaft angle and intersecting shafts, to transmit power between units. There are two main types of bevel gear - the straight bevel, which doesn't feature helix angles and spiral bevel gears (sometimes referred to as zero bevel gears) which do have helix angles.
Straight bevel gears have straight gear teeth on their wheels, whereas a spiral bevel gear is an angled gear with spiral lines. The tooth shape on the spiral bevel gear is curved slightly which lengthens the gear tooth contact.
Our experts at Highfield Gears have seen the popularity of straight bevel gears wane in recent years thanks to a combination of outdated, unused manufacturing processes and the fact that they cannot be polished. In contrast, spiral teeth and spiral gears, such as the spiral bevel gear, are deemed far superior because they can be polished, which reduces noise and vibrations. Both excess noise and vibrations are unwanted features, especially in gearboxes that help power machinery that is sensitive to movement and sound.
Another specific variation of this gear is the miter gear or the spiral miter gear. Like its close relative, the spiral bevel gear and straight bevel gear, the miter gear has tooth contact on two rotational axes that intersect. However, unlike the aforementioned bevel gears, miter gears cannot increase or decrease speed, and that is because the number of teeth on the gear wheels are the same. Also, because the shaft can be set at non-perpendicular angles, you can create angular miter gears.
Since our founding in 1927, we’ve been producing bevel gears using the two most common manufacturing methods – the Gleason method and the Klingelnberg method. The main difference between the Gleason and Klingelnberg bevel gearing method, for making bevel gear sets, is the different tooth shapes that are used. While most gearboxes feature gears that are made using the Gleason method, our experts at our Huddersfield-based gear centre can also create them using the Klingelnberg method.
The Application Of Bevel Gears, What Are They Used For?
Bevel gear units are used by hundreds of businesses, who take advantage of the perpendicular shafts and axis rotation that ensure quality and efficiency, to make a myriad of products. To ensure good thrust load, the compact design of this gear usually comprises steel. It is made into a conical shape and is available in a variety of pitches, bores, and module sizes.
In general, these types of bevel gears are used in a wide range of processes and applications, such as:
- Food packaging equipment.
- Wielding positioning equipment.
- Cooling towers.
- Gardening equipment.
- Machining tools such as mills and lathes.
- Food-canning equipment.
