Facts & Features Manual: Gear shapers!

Edwin R. Fellows was an American producer and entrepreneur from Torrington, Connecticut who styled and manufactured a innovative type of gear shaper in 1896 and, with the help of James Hartness as mentor, he left the Jones & Lamson Machine Label to co-found the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield, Vermont, which was one of the promoting firms in the gear-shaping segment of the machine tool industry. Fellows machines made an important contribution to the mass production of fruitful and authentic gear transmissions for the freshly generated automotive industry. The primitive method of gear cutting is mounting a gear blank in a shaper and using a tool shaped in the profile of the part to be cut. This procedure also works for cutting internal flexible strip. Another is a U-shaped cutter that is used in a gear shaper machine. It is usually when a cutter that looks alike to a gear cuts a gear blank. The cutter and the blank must have a moving axis parallel to each other. This procedure works well for small and big production runs.

There is only one commercial machine on the market that is adapted to the cutting of one piece stepped and shoulder gears and that is Fellows Gear Shaper. Practically every truck manufacturer uses the gear shaper for finishing transmission gears. It represents the only successful and practical method for machining this type of gear.

There are many Gear shapers models, namely- 6-10 C-1 Series,6-10 B-1 Series, 16-16/16-36/16-56 Series C-1, 16-16/1636 Series B-1, 14-15 Series A-1, 14-15 Series A-2, 10-20 Series B-4, 10-20 Series A-2, 10-20 Series A-3, 16-15 Series A-3, 16-15 Series A-4, 25-15 Series A-3, 25-15 Series A-4, 40-15 Series A-5, 40-15 Series A-4, 18-04 Series B-3, 18-04 Series A-3, HD 150, HD 200, HD 250. Basically The Gear Shaper Manual which is also Facts & Features Manual includes Specifications and Some information on Controls. Barber Colman Model 10, Gear Shaper, Operations Manual Year (1972) is the 10th model. This Manual Includes: Form No. 9684-1, Preface & Machine View, Part 1: Introduction, Part 2: Machine Settings, Part: Operating the Machine, Specifications, Installation Instructions, Machine Components, Hydraulic, Schematic and Parts List, Manual and Automatic Sequence of Operations, how to Determine Depth of Cuts, Calculating Centre Distance of Work to Cutter, How to Determine Saddle Offset, Index Change Gear Information, Stroking Speed Ranges.

Different editions of gear shaper manual are available. You can choose from Gear shaper manual 1956, Gear Manual 1978. You can also order them online.

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