US2345139A - Geneva drive - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
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- the purpose of the present invention is to so form the Geneva drive that the gear will be moved more quickly relative to the periods of dwell than in the case of conventional Geneva gears. That is to say, instead of the driven gear being at rest during 130 of pinion revolution and being in motion during the other 180 of such revolution, it may occupy a period of rest during the time that the driving pinion is rotated 240, the motion of the driven gear wheel being effected during 120 of pinion movement.
- This arrangement is of utility particularly in the case of glass forming machines, where certain periods of dwell or pause are required in order to complete the shaping of the ware.
- the pinion can be driven more rapidly, so that while the proper duration of dwell is secured, the Geneva gear and the mold table driven thereby are moved more rapidly between such periods of dwell, to thereby permit the performing of a greater number of shaping or molding operation per minute.
- Figure l is a plan view showing approximately one-half of the driven gear wheel and the pinion, at a dwell position; 2 shows the positions occupied by the parts at an intermediate stage in the step movement, and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the apparatus of Fig. 1.
- the drawing represents a mold column upon which a suitable mold table may be mounted and above which glass-shaping elements be provided to operate upon glass within the molds, in timed relation to rotative movements of the mold tabie and the Geneva gear.
- the Geneva gear represented by the numeral ii is suitably keyed to the column it it int ,rmittently rotated by at Geneva pinthat is mounted on a shaft it that is n from suitable source of power through a worm gear it o he like.
- the pinion has a tooth i5 rich ally enters slots It in the gear 5 i, to impart step-ty-step movement thereto.
- the pinion also has a curved boss ll which is of somewhat the usual form, but instead of extending 180 is of considerably less length.
- the length and position of the boss ii is such that it will completely emerge from a groove l-8 'in the-"Geneva gear wheel when the tooth I5 is: entering one of the slots Hi.
- the boss will enter: the groove l3 when the stud I5 emerges from one of the slots IE3 at the completion of a step movement of the gear H (as indicated by dash lines in Fig. 1), and-will maintain the gear wheel and therefore the mold table in stationary position, to permit the performing of shaping operations on the mold table, until the tooth I5 is carried into a succeeding slot is to advance the mold table another step.
- the movement of the gear wheel H is eiiected during approximately 120 of movement by the pinion l2 (from a to b) and the duration of dwell or rest is for 240 of pinion movement.
- the groove I3 is shown as approximately semicircular, but can be shortened to less than if the boss I 1 be correspondingly lengthened.
- each groove and the boss is less than the 360 length employed in prior art devices.
- a Geneva drive comprising a Geneva pinion having a radially-extending portion provided with a gear-driving tooth and also having an arcuate boss that is coaxial with the pinion and located diametrally opposite to the said tooth, and a gear wheel having radially-extending thrust surfaces positioned to be successively engaged by said tooth, during rotation of the pinion and also having arcuate grooves whose side walls serve as dwell surfaces, curved complementally with the boss and disposed between the thrust surfaces in position to be successively engaged by said boss, the boss having a length of substantially less than 180 degrees and the'arcuate grooves being approximately semi-circular, each thrust surface being movable into the path of the tooth only such distance that it will be engaged by the tooth when the boss leaves a preceding groove and will be pushed by the tooth thrust surfaces in position to be successively engaged by said boss, the combined lengths of the boss and each groove being not substantially greater than 240 degrees, each thrust surface being movable into the path of the tooth only such distance that it will be engaged by the tooth
- ARCHWORTH MARTIN ARCHWORTH MARTIN.
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March 28 1944.
A. MARTIN GENEVA DRIVE Filed June' 13, 1942 I N VENT OR Patented Mar. 28, 1944 umrso sm'rss WEN g I 2.34am
OFFICE 2,345,139 GENEVA DtRIV-E Archworth Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa. Application June 13, 1942,. Serial. No. 4616,9155
' zoni'ms. (o1.1'74; 4 s6)[ In Geneva gear drives, the pinion shaft makes a complete revolution for each step which the Geneva gear is moved. Ordinarily, if the pinion makes one revolution in two seconds, for example, the gear will be held at a position of rest for one second and will be moving during the other one second period.
The purpose of the present invention is to so form the Geneva drive that the gear will be moved more quickly relative to the periods of dwell than in the case of conventional Geneva gears. That is to say, instead of the driven gear being at rest during 130 of pinion revolution and being in motion during the other 180 of such revolution, it may occupy a period of rest during the time that the driving pinion is rotated 240, the motion of the driven gear wheel being effected during 120 of pinion movement.
This arrangement is of utility particularly in the case of glass forming machines, where certain periods of dwell or pause are required in order to complete the shaping of the ware. By my arrangement, the pinion can be driven more rapidly, so that while the proper duration of dwell is secured, the Geneva gear and the mold table driven thereby are moved more rapidly between such periods of dwell, to thereby permit the performing of a greater number of shaping or molding operation per minute.
Figure l is a plan view showing approximately one-half of the driven gear wheel and the pinion, at a dwell position; 2 shows the positions occupied by the parts at an intermediate stage in the step movement, and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view through the apparatus of Fig. 1.
As shown in the drawing, it represents a mold column upon which a suitable mold table may be mounted and above which glass-shaping elements be provided to operate upon glass within the molds, in timed relation to rotative movements of the mold tabie and the Geneva gear. The Geneva gear represented by the numeral ii is suitably keyed to the column it it int ,rmittently rotated by at Geneva pinthat is mounted on a shaft it that is n from suitable source of power through a worm gear it o he like. The pinion has a tooth i5 rich ally enters slots It in the gear 5 i, to impart step-ty-step movement thereto. The pinion also has a curved boss ll which is of somewhat the usual form, but instead of extending 180 is of considerably less length. The length and position of the boss ii is such that it will completely emerge from a groove l-8 'in the-"Geneva gear wheel when the tooth I5 is: entering one of the slots Hi. The boss will enter: the groove l3 when the stud I5 emerges from one of the slots IE3 at the completion of a step movement of the gear H (as indicated by dash lines in Fig. 1), and-will maintain the gear wheel and therefore the mold table in stationary position, to permit the performing of shaping operations on the mold table, until the tooth I5 is carried into a succeeding slot is to advance the mold table another step.
As shown on the drawing, the movement of the gear wheel H is eiiected during approximately 120 of movement by the pinion l2 (from a to b) and the duration of dwell or rest is for 240 of pinion movement.
If now the drive is applied to a molding machine that previously had been driven by conventionahGeneva gearing at a rate to produce 3%] articles of ware per minute, which means that the pinion was rotated one revolution in two seconds, the rate of rotation of the pinion can be increased more than 16 per cent without reducing the dwell period, since there will be a saving of time required for moving the mold table. Instead of pieces of ware per minute, pieces per minute can be produced.
It will be understood that other relative periods of movement and dwell during each cycle of pause and movement can be had by changing the length of the solts it, the radial position of the pinion tooth l5 and the length of the boss IT. For example, by extending the tooth-engaging walls of the slots It further toward the periphery of the gear wheel i and moving the tooth l5 correspondingly closer to the axis of the pinion, the pinion will operate to move the gear wheel during a greater portion of the pinion travel, with corresponding slower movement of the table. In such case, the length of the groove l8 would have to be decreased or the boss 2'! shortened, so that the boss i? would be clear of the groove whenever the pinion is in one of the slots it.
While a simple curved recess could be provided in the edge of the table for a dwell surface, as is common in Geneva gears, the use of a relatively short boss such as H renders the groove i8 desirable in order to avoid danger of the table drifting in either direction during the dwell period.
The groove I3 is shown as approximately semicircular, but can be shortened to less than if the boss I 1 be correspondingly lengthened.
The combined length of each groove and the boss is less than the 360 length employed in prior art devices.
I claim as my invention:
1. A Geneva drive comprising a Geneva pinion having a radially-extending portion provided with a gear-driving tooth and also having an arcuate boss that is coaxial with the pinion and located diametrally opposite to the said tooth, and a gear wheel having radially-extending thrust surfaces positioned to be successively engaged by said tooth, during rotation of the pinion and also having arcuate grooves whose side walls serve as dwell surfaces, curved complementally with the boss and disposed between the thrust surfaces in position to be successively engaged by said boss, the boss having a length of substantially less than 180 degrees and the'arcuate grooves being approximately semi-circular, each thrust surface being movable into the path of the tooth only such distance that it will be engaged by the tooth when the boss leaves a preceding groove and will be pushed by the tooth thrust surfaces in position to be successively engaged by said boss, the combined lengths of the boss and each groove being not substantially greater than 240 degrees, each thrust surface being movable into the path of the tooth only such distance that it will be engaged by the tooth when the boss leaves a preceding groove and will be pushed, by the tooth from said path when the boss enters a succeeding groove.
ARCHWORTH MARTIN.
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Cited By (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2625833A (en) * | 1949-12-31 | 1953-01-20 | Gleason Works | Geneva mechanism |
US2782654A (en) * | 1953-03-31 | 1957-02-26 | Rca Corp | Intermittent motion mechanism |
DE1258226B (en) * | 1964-02-03 | 1968-01-04 | Kurt G Hinterkopf | Maltese cross gear with internal grooves, in particular for indexing a workpiece carrier on machines for processing tube-like or sleeve-like workpieces |
US3745852A (en) * | 1969-10-06 | 1973-07-17 | Gen Time Corp | Geneva type mechanism for use in clock timer or the like |
FR2512908A1 (en) * | 1981-09-14 | 1983-03-18 | Sueddeutsche Kuehler Behr | TOOTHED GEARS WITH INTERMITTENT LOCKING |
US5106599A (en) * | 1990-02-06 | 1992-04-21 | Nalco Chemical Company | Alumina crystal growth additive |
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Cited By (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2625833A (en) * | 1949-12-31 | 1953-01-20 | Gleason Works | Geneva mechanism |
US2782654A (en) * | 1953-03-31 | 1957-02-26 | Rca Corp | Intermittent motion mechanism |
DE1258226B (en) * | 1964-02-03 | 1968-01-04 | Kurt G Hinterkopf | Maltese cross gear with internal grooves, in particular for indexing a workpiece carrier on machines for processing tube-like or sleeve-like workpieces |
US3745852A (en) * | 1969-10-06 | 1973-07-17 | Gen Time Corp | Geneva type mechanism for use in clock timer or the like |
FR2512908A1 (en) * | 1981-09-14 | 1983-03-18 | Sueddeutsche Kuehler Behr | TOOTHED GEARS WITH INTERMITTENT LOCKING |
US5106599A (en) * | 1990-02-06 | 1992-04-21 | Nalco Chemical Company | Alumina crystal growth additive |
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