The Gleason Works

Joseph A Courtney

Hermann J Stadtfeld

Mark J Boch

William G Landry

Markus J Bolze

Andrew S Price

Gary J Kimmet

A cutter head () having cutting blade positioning slots () wherein a portion of the positioning slots accommodate cutting blades () for right-hand cutting and another portion of the positioning slots accommodate cutting blades () for left-hand cutting.

Dual-hand cutter head for gear manufacture

Generating cutting processes for producing bevel gears and employing a single rotary disc cutter () wherein a portion of the generating cutting process effectively includes a reduction () of the workpiece roll angle () during generating thereby reducing or eliminating cutting action on the clearance side () of the rotary disc cutter.

Slide rolling process for the generation of bevel gears

Method and apparatus wherein the front machining of a gear blank () are carried out on a CNC bevel gear generating machine () utilizing the motions available in such machines with minimal modifications to the existing machine tool.

Method for manufacturing bevel gears

A method of determining axial and/or radial runout due to workholding equipment and compensating for such runout during machining of a gear wherein axial and/or radial runout compensations are executed during the machining of each individual tooth slot.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Joseph A Courtney