PLANETARY GEARS TAKE ON NEW JOBS

Designers are finding that planetary gears can minimize size and cost of drives. Other advantages include lower overall weight, tooth loadings and pitch-line velocities, and in-line arrangement of input and ouput shafts. A roundup is given of new applications and arrangements with speed-ratio equations. Some of the newer applications of planetary gears are in merchant-ship gas turbines and in the wheel drives of agricultural and off-highway equipment.

• Corporate Authors:

  Morgan-Grampian, Incorporated

  16 West 61st Street
  New York, NY  United States  10023
• Publication Date: 1979-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 37-41
• Serial:
  • Product Engineering
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agricultural equipment; All terrain vehicles; Construction equipment; Costs; Design; Gas turbines; Gears; Maintenance equipment; Offroad traffic; Planetary gear trains; Ships; Transmissions; Turbine engines; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Agricultural machinery
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311164
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 1980 12:00AM