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Measurement of Gear Tooth Profile using Gear Tooth Vernier /Gear Tooth Micrometer


Introduction

System description

Gears are toothed wheel that are used to transmit motion from one shaft to another shaft. Gears are generally used for following different reasons:

  1. To increase or decrease the speed of rotation
  2. To change the amount of force or torque
  3. To move rotational motion to a different axis (i.e. parallel, right angles, rotating, linear etc.)
  4. To reverse the direction of rotation.


Fig. 1. Gears