Method and apparatus for machining racks for steering gear

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4618297
SERIAL NO

06632662

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A machine for cutting the teeth of a rack for a variable ratio rack and pinion steering gear employing a helical pinion having a plurality of identical teeth engaged with a rack having some tooth gaps of varying form and angular disposition to the rack axis, the machine having a spindle carrying a tool with a single cutting tooth having cutting edges which lie on the surface of a single tooth of the helical pinion; the spindle is arranged for helical reciprocation in a housing between two predetermined limits about a mid position in which the tool is directed normally to the plane of the teeth of the rack, a rack holding fixture, the fixture or the housing being moveable with a relative translatory curvilinear motion during the cutting of a gap of the rack, the motion for any one gap being a part of the locus of the helical pinion when slid without rotation in the same gap of the rack.

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A E BISHOP & ASSOCIATES PTY LIMITED10 WATERLOO ROAD NORTH RYDE NSW 2113

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bishop, Arthur E 17 Burton St., Mosman, N.S.W., AU 31 272
Roeske, Klaus J Beverley Hills, AU 10 65

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