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Lewis factor for profile shifted gears

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israelkk

Aerospace
Dec 30, 2002
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Does anyone has a good source or information how to calculate the corrected Lewis factor for shifted profile gears?
 
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It is the same procedure that is used for standard gears.
You need to layout the gear as a 1 dp gear and use the same method. You start out by drawing a line from the tip tangent to the base circle. Where this line intersects the centerline of the tooth, draw a line from this point
tangent to the fillet radius. Draw a perpendicular line
from that point of intersection to the tooth centerline. From that fillet radius tangent point draw a horizontal line to the the tooth centerline. x is then the vertical distance from the horizontal line down to the other intersection line at the tooth centerline.
Since y = 2/3 x, you have the lewis factor from the model. I do it in acad often.
 
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