From Manual of Gear Design: Spur and Internal Gears, Volume II
Gear Consultants Buckingham Associates, Inc.
Generating Hourglass Worm for Space Sextant Drive - Overall accuracy - 5 arc-Seconds
BUCKINGHAM ASSOCIATES INC. consults in the design, application, and manufacture of gears for any type of drive. Consultation can be either in the customer's plant, or in our offices in Springfield, Vermont.
We are prepared to design complete gear boxes, and, by utilizing local machine shops, manufacture prototypes. We also occasionally test gear sets of 1 HP or lower capacity.
BUCKINGHAM ASSOCIATES INC. owns a roll test machine for evaluating the surface endurance limits of materials for gears, linkages, and cams, as described in an article in Machine Design August 1, 1968 by Ralph Morrison of the United Shoe Machinery Co., and in Chapter 4 of The Handbook of Mechanical Wear, Lipson and Colwell, University of Michigan Press.
We have had substantial experience determining the cause of failures of gears and gear drives, reducing noise, and increasing the effectiveness of existing systems. We are also prepared to work with customers over extended periods, assisting with training their personnel in both engineering and manufacturing.
The following is a partial list of some of the products on which we have consulted:
| Servo-motors | Elevators |
| Electromechanical Timers | Machine Tools |
| Hydraulic Wheel Drives | Textile Machines |
| High Speed Compressors | Aircraft |
| Farm Machinery and Equipment | Instruments |
| Toys | Household Appliances |
| Business Machines | Gear Pumps |
| Astronomical Telescopes | Transmissions |
| Printing Presses | Marine Gears |
| Gear Couplings | Splines |
Examining piece for a high speed compressor drive - 20,000 HP, 10,000 RPM
Eliot K.
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Worms and worm gears are gear sets that offer high gear reduction and torque multiplication with a small footprint. A worm drive is a cylindrical gear with a shallow spiral thread that engages the worm gear in a non-intersecting, perpendicular axes configuration.
A hypoid gear is a style of spiral bevel gear whose main variance is that the mating gears' axes do not intersect. The hypoid gear is offset from the gear center, allowing unique configurations and a large diameter shaft. The teeth on a hypoid gear are helical, and the pitch surface is best described as a hyperboloid. A hypoid gear can be considered a cross between a bevel gear and a worm drive.
Gears are rotating mechanical devices employing 'teeth' in order to transmit torque between separate axes. Two or more cooperating gears are called a transmission and can produce a mechanical advantage by changing speed, torque or rotation direction.
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By EARLE BUCKINGHAM Professor of Mechanical Engineering MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Member A.S.M.E.; S.A.E.; A.G.M.A. Revised By Eliot K. Buckingham Standards, Formulas, and Tables for...
Accelerated Gear-Life Tests ELIOT K. BUCKINGHAM Buckingham Associates, Inc. Gear Consultants Springfield, Vt. Surface wear and pitting effects are almost identical on rolls and gears, so you can get...
Overview DESIGN OF GEAR DRIVES FOR EXTREME CONDITIONS: by Buckingham and Khiralla was presented to AGMA at the 41st annual meeting in June 1957. Reprinted with permission of AGMA. ACCELERATED LIFE...
21.1 INTRODUCTION Spiral bevel gears have found broad application in helicopter and truck transmissions and reducers for transformation of rotation and torque between intersected axes. Design and...
ANALYZING GEARS FOR DYNAMIC LOADS A two-stage, step-up gearbox drives a compressor and has a lubrication pump mounted on one of the gear shafts, Fig. 1. Tables 1, 2, and 3 show the spur-gear data,...
