Seminar on

Gearless Transmission using Elbow

Mechanism
Presented by: Under the supervision of
Utkarsh Srivastava Mr. Ayush Trivedi
Roll no :1616440122 Assistant professor
rd
Student Mechanical 3 year
Pranveer Singh institute of Mechanical Department
technology PSIT Mechanical Engineering
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 Need of Gearless Mechanism
 Today’s world require speed in each and every field.
 Engineers’s are constantly confronted to the challlenges of
efficient transmission of power.
 Gears are costly to manufacture.
 It is needed to further increase the efficiency of transmission
which cannot be done using geared transmission.
 Gearless transmission mechanism is capable of transmitting
power at any angle without any gear being manufactured.

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 Introduction Of Gearless
Transmission
 It is also known as Elbow Mechanism.
 It is an ingenious link mechanism of slider and kinematic
chain principle.
 Transmits power at any angle without utilising gears.
 Elbow Mechanism is being compact and portable equipment,
which is skilful and is having something practice in the
transmitting power at right angle without any gears being
manufactured.
 This mechanism can be used for any diameter of the driving
and driven shaft.[1] Maximum efficiency of gear drive is only
up to 42% but, by this mechanism we can get up to 90 to 92%
of efficiency.[2]
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 SYSTEM STUDY
In this transmission system numbers of pins used are
between 3,4,5,…which were inserted into the hole drilled on
the cylindrical disc. If we use less than 3 pins it will not
work and cause jamming.[3]
The motion is transmitted by sliding and rotating movement
of the L pins simultaneously.
The elbow mechanism consist of the following parts:
 L-Pins
 Cylindrical discs
 Shafts
 Base plates
 Arm supports(Bearings)

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• Figure: General Layout of Elbow Mechanism

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WORKING PRINCIPLE OF
ELBOW MECHANISM
 After studying synthesis of mechanism it get revealed that
this system consist of 3,4,…up to 8 pins and increasing the
Nos. of pins mechanism will work more smoothly. Power to
this mechanism is supplied with motor. Motion is transmitted
from driving to driven shaft with the help of L-pins. This L-
pins starts TO and FRO motion when power is supplied. The
motion is transmitted through the S-RR-S pair made by L-
pins and cylindrical disc.[4]
 Transmits the power between two shafts whose axes are at
90 degree through bent links.
 Three links slide relatively according to the motion given to
the input shaft.

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 Due to this the rotational
motion of input shaft is
converted into sliding
motion of links which is
then converted to
rotational motion of
output shaft.

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Fig: Section view of the rotating pins

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 MACHINE DESIGN
The general steps to be followed in the designing of the
machine are as followed.
 Preparation of the statement of the problem indicating
the purpose of the machine.
 Selection of mechanism to be used.
 Selection of the material.
 Determining the size of component drawing.
 Preparation of component drawing.
 Manufacturing and assembling the machine.
 Testing of the machine for functioning

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MATERIALS USED

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MANUFACTURING OF PARTS
 Primary shaping: Preliminary shaping of
machine components.
 Machining Process: Final shape of machine
components on lathe.
 Surface finishing: polishing, lapping, filing.
 Joining: Arc welding
 Special operation: Lubrication, adjustment

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 APPLICATIONS
 It can be used as an extension for a socket wrench.
 The mechanism is used for multiple spindle drilling operation
called “Gang Drilling”
 Also used for angular drilling between 0 to 90 degree position.
 Lubrication pump for C.N.C lathe machines.
 Air blower for electronic and computer machine
 The EL-BOW mechanism is used for movement of periscope
in submarines, In the year 1685 for the famous London tower
clock.
 Driving for all kind of four faced tower clocks.
 This mechanism is very useful for reaching a drive at a clumsy
location

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GEARED V/S GEARLESS
TRANSMISSION

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 ADVANTAGES
 Complete freedom of interchangeability.
 More efficient than gear.
 Power could be transferred to any desired angle.
 Ease of manufacturing.
 Misalignment of shafts can be tolerated to some
extent.
 Simpler cooling system.
 Low cost of manufacturing.
 Portability of parts

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 LIMITATIONS
 Does not work at very low starting torque.
 Improper hole drilling could pose much problem.
 Sudden load would cause mechanism breakdown.
 Links are to be replaced after certain cycle time.
 Speed ratio is always content 1:1

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 FUTURE SCOPES

 Torque bearing capacity can be improved.

 Flexible bent links can be used.
 Has a bright future in automation and robotics.
 Can be used in automobile industry in near
future

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 CONCLUSION
 The model works correctly as per the
design.
 With the help of this system, we can
efficiently reduce the cost in power
transmission.
 Further advancement in this technology
can be made.

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 REFERENCES
 [1] Prof R. Somraj, B. Sailesh , “DESIGN AND FABRICATION
OF GEARLESS POWER TRANSMISSION FOR SKEW
SHAFTS”, International Research Journal of Engineering and
Technology (IRJET) , Volume: 04 Issue: 04 | Apr -2017
 [2] Neeraj Patil , Jayesh Gaikwad , Mayur Patil , Chandrakant
Sonawane , Shital Patel, “Gearless Transmission Mechanism and
its Applications” International Journal of Innovative Research in
Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 6, Issue 3, March 2017
 [3] Ashish Kumar, Puneet Pawar, Sagar Rana, Shishir Bist,
“Multi-Angular Gearless Drive” International Journal of Scientific
& Engineering Research, Volume 6, Issue 7, July-2015
 [4] Solanki Nehal Pramesh, Patel Harshil K, Singh Montu,
Rajwani Avesh, “DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF GEARLESS
TRANSMISSION THROUGH ELBOW MECHANISM”
International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering
(IJSRE) Vol. 1 (3), March 2017
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THANK YOU

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