This gear rack for Machine Tool Industry china integrated and coordinated advancement of thermoforming machines and tools is our most important customer benefit and unique on the thermoforming market. With the considerable know-how of our skilled experts in both tool and machine engineering, our customers benefit from a unique synergy effect leading to a higher service existence of both machine and tools, along with an optimal formed component quality. We try to surpass your anticipations and make sure your success with this quality.
For a long time, a machine tool builder had manufactured their own precision gear racks to accomplish ultra-precise positioning on the machines. They also required this because their critical customers demanded 
that their machines maintain accurate positioning with no error compensation on the axis.
To save costs, they wished to find a gear rack supplier who could obtain the same limited rack tolerances and performance level that that they had come accustom to.
Choosing from their wide variety of regular rack & pinion drives, ATLANTA offered a Ultra-High Accuracy DIN 4 (UHPR) gear rack, which experienced a total pitch deviation of less than twelve microns (< 0.012 mm) over a one meter length. The actual pitch deviation was measured at 20º C and marked on each rack.
To achieve the high rack strength the customer required, the main of one’s teeth were hardened along with the tooth flanks. Finally, precision grinding was utilized to achieve the required flatness tolerances on the trunk and sides of the rack.
At Industrial Sprockets & Gears, Inc., we are capable of manufacturing complicated gears and sprockets that no other manufacturers can create. The part shown this is a helical equipment rack that can be used on a Maag equipment manufacturing machine. The gear rack is 6′ lengthy, includes a nominal cross-section of 3” by 2”, and is constructed of 4130 steel.
The customer needed a replacement part which is necessary to the operation of their machine and had previously been struggling to find someone with the capacity to cut the required size of helical rack. Many times customers e mail us because OEM parts are no longer available or are cost prohibitive. Often, customers have found that the quality of replacement parts made by us exceed the quality their OEM parts.
Many of our projects are exclusive within the market and represent many of the most challenging sizes and geometries of gears produced today. We maintain an array of rare gear shaping devices as well as advanced CNC milling and turning centers, that allows us to make a vast selection of gear, sprocket, work, and rack sizes, shapes, and patterns.
The rack was produced on a specialized CNC gear rack milling machine to tolerances as tight as ±0.001″. The client was not only very happy to find a manufacturer capable of producing the part; they remarked that the quality far exceeded their expectations. We created this helical equipment rack with a lead time of only two weeks. For additional information regarding this custom equipment rack machining project, contact us directly.
A rack and pinion drive system consists of a rack (or a “linear equipment”) and a pinion (or “circular gear”). The teeth of a rack and pinion drive could be directly or helical, although helical tooth are often used due to their higher load capability and quieter operation. For a rack and pinion drive system, the maximum force which can be transmitted is largely determined by the tooth pitch and the size of the pinion.
