A machine builder comes with an program to rotate tooling around an Aerospace component and want to use a curved rack and pinion drive to achieve this. To keep up accurate positioning, there would be two axis drives to rotate the axis and remove backlash using electrical preloading.
The curved rack will be a special design simply by the client based on the device requirements and the design envelope they have to work with.
ATLANTA could work with the client on the design of the curved rack to boost it's manufacturability and confirm that it would end up being able to handle the application loading. The rack was created as a special item and used ATLANTA's vast encounter and knowledge in gear rack for Aerospace Industry china equipment production.
A precision planetary reducer was selected with a ISO flanged pinion mounted to the output to operate a vehicle on the rack. The flanged pinion provided a compact style to reduce the amount of torque required at the reducer output. The reducer provided a rigid support of the flanged pinion and allowed for a large reduction ratio to have the motor increase as high as feasible.
What is a gear rack? A rack and pinion is certainly a set of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion. A circular gear known as the pinion engages tooth on a linear gear bar called the apparatus rack. Rotational motion applied to the pinion causes the gear rack to move, thereby translating the rotational motion of the pinion into the linear motion of the gear rack.
Automotive steering, milling machines, grinders, and meat processing machines certainly are a few of the machines using gear racks. Gear racks are also found in robotics, CNC routers, materials managing systems, automation systems, and the aerospace sector.
We also offer customized gear rack production. We can 
manufacture equipment racks in a variety of materials such as plastic, brass, metal and aluminum. We are able to also produce spur gears, bevel gears, helical gears, equipment clusters, metric gears, anti-backlash gears, worm gears, gear blanks, gear share, pinion shafts, ratchets and pawls. We are able to also manufacture gears with pin hubs, clamp hubs, or hubless.
We manufacture a multitude of gear types complete or will cut gear teeth upon consumer supplied blanks. We make rack and pinion gears, face gears, ring gears and other particular gears for the next industries: aviation, protection and aerospace instrumentation, commercial, energy, general sector and equipment, health care, leisure, musical instrument, saw, scientific study and transportation. Ever-Power manufactures gears using modern machining methods to customer specifications.