SPUR GEAR LIFTING

Spur Gear Lifting

NOTE:

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this manual is accurate;
however no labiality is accepted for errors. Should an error be discovered please inform the
company in writing, giving full details. Any experimental results given are for guidance only and
are not guaranteed as exact answers that can be obtained for a given apparatus; due to the
complex variables applicable to most experiments.

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Table of Contents
Page
1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................... 1

2. GENERAL DISCRIPTION ........................................................................................... 2

2.1 Unit Assembly ............................................................................................................ 2
2.2 Specification ............................................................................................................... 2

3. SUMMARY OF THEORY ............................................................................................ 3

4. EXPERIMENT ............................................................................................................... 5
4.1 Objective ..................................................................................................................... 5
4.2 Procedure .................................................................................................................... 5
4.3 Observations ............................................................................................................... 5
4.4 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 5

APPENDIX A Typical Experimental Results

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1 INTRODUCTION:

A gear is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another
toothed part in order to transmit torque. Two or more gears working in tandem are called
a transmission and can produce a mechanical advantage through a gear ratio and thus
may be considered a simple machine. Geared devices can change the speed, torque, and
direction of a power source. The most common situation is for a gear to mesh with
another gear; however a gear can also mesh a non-rotating toothed part, called a rack,
thereby producing translation instead of rotation.

The gears in a transmission are analogous to the wheels in a pulley. An advantage of

gears is that the teeth of a gear prevent slipping.

When two gears of unequal number of teeth are combined a mechanical advantage is
produced, with both the rotational speeds and the torques of the two gears differing in a
simple relationship.

The EES® Spur Gear Lifting model consists of the simplest type of gear. They consist
of a cylinder or disk with the teeth projecting radially, and although they are not straight-
sided in form, the edge of each tooth is straight and aligned parallel to the axis of
rotation. These gears can be meshed together correctly only if they are fitted to parallel
shafts.

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2 GENERAL DISCRIPTION:

2.1 Unit Assembly:

5
2

4
3

1. Driver pinion (effort wheel) 4. Second driven wheel

2. Second driver pinion 5. Load drum
3. Driven Wheel 6. Wall unit frame

2.2 Specification:

T1 = Number of teeth on the driver pinion = 28

T2 = Number of teeth on the driven wheel = 84
T3 = Number of teeth on the 2nd driver pinion = 28
T4 = Number of teeth on the 2nd driven wheel = 84

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3 SUMMARY OF THEORY:

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4 EXPERIMENT:

4.1 Objective:

To determine the Mechanical Advantage, Velocity Ratio and Efficiency of a

Compound Spur Gear.

4.2 Procedure:

1. Firstly stabilize the machine and wrap the cord around the load drum and the
effort wheel.
2. Put some weight on the load drum and add some effort to the effort wheel via
hanger.
3. Stop adding effort until the load hanger begins to move from ground level and
effort just nearly touch ground.
4. Write down the reading in the observation table.
5. After this apply the above procedure, four to five times with gradually
increasing the load as well as effort to the load drum and effort wheel
respectively.
6. Write down all the readings in the given observation table.
7. Calculate M.A, V.R and Efficiency of machine.

4.3 Observations:

V.R = Distance moved by effort / Distance moved by load

 T2   T4 
V .R    
 T1  T3 

Load
M .A 
Effort

Sr. # Load (N) Effort (N) M.A V.R η = M.A/V.R

4.4 Conclusion:

1. Draw a graph between Load on y-axis and Effort on x-axis.

2. Draw a graph between Load on y-axis and Efficiency on x-axis.

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APPENDIX A
Typical Experimental results

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EXPERIMENT:

V .R  2D /  d1  d2  = (2 x 250) / (100 – 50) = 10

Sr. # Load (N) Effort (N) M.A V.R η = M.A/V.R

1 10.5 1.7 6.176 9 68.62
2 20.5 3 6.833 9 75.922
3 30.5 4.1 7.439 9 82.65

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