Miter gears are a single type of bevel gears where in fact the two rotational axes intersect. When talking about narrow definition of bevel gears with capability to increase or decrease speed, miter gears don’t have that ability due to the pair’s same quantity of teeth. Their purpose is limited to the change in transmission direction. Because they are a type of bevel gears, the essential characteristic of bevel gears exist such as for example presence of gear kinds of straight cut, spiral lower and types.

Also, because the shafts can be set to any angle, there are miter gears with non-90 degree (non-perpendicular) angle called angular miter gears. Ever-power is definitely capable of generating angular miter gears with shaft angles in the range of 45 to 120 degrees.

Because a pair of right tooth miter gears has the same amount of teeth, with the exception of minor differences such as set screw holes and key ways, the same two gears may mate with one another. However, in the case of spiral miter gears, even when the number of teeth will be the same, the twisting directions will vary. Therefore, the same gear cannot be miter gear china meshed together, in fact it is necessary to pair the right and remaining handed pairs.

Bevel gears are classified in different types according to geometry:

Straight bevel gears have conical pitch surface and teeth are direct and tapering towards apex.