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The Involute Tooth Form

The cycloid and the


involute: curve
characteristics
The involute is a curve
which can be generated by
unwrapping a taut string
from a cylinder (called the
evolute). Features of this
involute curve:

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The Involute Tooth Form

The string is always tangent to the cylinder.


The center of the curvature of the involute is always
at the point of tangency of the string with the
cylinder.
A tangent to the involute is then always normal to the
string, the length os which is the instantaneous radius
of curvature of the involute curve.

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