First necessary to measure the root diameter of shaft and the width of cach spline.

Then , referring to the Figure, GEAR MEASUREMENT Elaborate equipment is needed for detailed tests on all the various types of gears, anf the methods used would require a whole volumw for their description. Only the measurement of the tooth thickness of involute-form straight spur gears of standard proportions is, therefore, dealt with here. Some knowledge of the properties of the intvolute and of the proportions of gear tecth is assumed. There are three methods of checking tooth thickness, namely by measuring the chordol thickness, the constant chord. Or the distance over two pins inserted in the tooth spaces at opposite ends of a diameter. The first two methods require a gear tooth vernier caliper, which is an instrument similar to the ordinary vernier caliper but having a second beam at right angles to the main beam, between the jaws, which can be set by the vernier scale so that, when it rests on the top of a tooth, the tips of the jaws are at the correct distance down the tooth flanks for the required measurement. For measurement of the chordal thickness, the tonge of the gear tooth vernier is set so that the jaw tips will touch the tooth flanks at the pitch circle. The thickness of the tooth is then measured on the main scale of the instrument. Referring to Fig. 10.9(), Where T is the number of teeth. Where m is the module pith.

For a gear having 30 teeth of module 5, the tongue setting (the chordal addendum) is The chordal thickness should be The caliper for the constant chord method does not depend upon the number of teeth in the gear. The same setting is used for any gear cut to the same pitch and pressure angle. Fig. 10.9( Shows a tooth in mesh with a rack cutter. The points of contact A and B are these at which the normalsto the profiles pass though therefore, fixed and independent of the number of teeth. In the Figaro, For a module 5 gear of 20 degress pressure angle, the settings are H W= In the third method, the pins may be of any diameter which will fit in the tooth space. It is, however, preferable to choose them either so that hey contact the tooth flanks

on the pitch circle or, alternatively, so that their centres are at the pitch points. The latter arrangement is illustrated in Fig. 10.10. At () in the figure , the outline of the basic rack tooth is shown in the tooth space,the teeth, rack, and pin, being in contact at the points A and B.