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Terms Used in Governors
The following terms used in governors are important from the subject point of view ;…
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Centrifugal Governors
The centrifugal governors are based on the balancing of centrifugal force on the rotating balls…
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Types of Governors
The governors may, broadly, be classified as 1. Centrifugal governors, and 2. Inertia governors. The centrifugal governors,…
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Backlash
The gap between the non-drive face of the pinion tooth and the adjacent wheel tooth…
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Interference in Involute Gears
The tooth tip of the pinion will then undercut the tooth on the wheel at…
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Length of Arc of Contact
Arc of contact is the path traced by a point on the pitch circle from…
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Length of Path of Contact
Consider a pinion driving wheel as shown in figure. When the pinion rotates in clockwise,…
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Systems of Gear Teeth
The following four systems of gear teeth are commonly used in practice: 1. 14 ½O Composite…
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Advantages of Cycloidal gear teeth
1. Since the cycloidal teeth have wider flanks, therefore the cycloidal gears are stronger than the…
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Forms of Teeth
Involute Profile The following examples are involute spur gears. We use the word involute because the contour…