involute teeth

American  

noun

1. (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.

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Example Sentences

In involute teeth the motion transmitted will be smooth and equal whether the pitch lines of the wheels coincide or not, hence the wear of the journals and bearings does not impair their action.

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Involute teeth.—These are teeth having their whole operative surfaces formed of one continuous involute curve.

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A method commonly employed in practice to strike the curves of involute teeth, is as follows:— Fig.

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The principles involved in the construction of a rack to work correctly with a wheel or pinion, having involute teeth, are as in Fig.

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From this it becomes apparent that involute teeth being always thicker at the root than at the pitch line, and the spaces being, therefore, narrower at the root, may be cut with these cutters, no matter what the diameter of the base circle of the involute.

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