TRAINS

TRAIN – a series of rolling cylinders or cones, pulleys, gears, or similar devices serving to
transmit power from one shaft to the another.
- train is applied only to those combinations in which there are more than one pair.

Illustration:
Consider a gear fast to shaft A. 3 is a gear fast to shaft B and meshing with 2. 4 is
another gear also fast to shaft B and meshing with gear 5 which is fast to shaft C. If shaft
A turns, 2 will turn with it and cause 3 to turn. Since 3 is fast to shat B, B will turn with 3.
Gear 4 will then turn at the same angular speed as 3 and will cause 5 to turn, causing shaft
C to turn with it. That is, 2 drives 3, and 4, turning with 3, drives 5.
Driver – in a train is the one causing the motion or others to turn
Driven – motion is caused by the driver.
Idler – both driver and driven. A part which is driven and in turn drives (gear 3 in the
figure).
- when two shaft are connected by two external gears, the shaft will rotate in the
opposite directions, but if an idler is placed between these two gars, their
direction of rotation will be the same.
- Idlers are also used to reduce the size of the gars required to conncet two shafts
with affixed center distance and a desired velocity ratio.
Train Value (e) – If the fixed piece is considered the member that supports the axes of the
wheels of a train, the train value may be defined as the ratio of the absolute angular speed
of the last wheel or driven to the absolute angular velocity of the first wheel or driver.
The reciprocal of the speed ratio.

CALCULATION OF SPEEDS

For Gears:

rewriting:

Note: