A machine builder required a vertical axis drive to pull, stack and transfer sections of pipe in an essential oil field environment. The application form load was very weighty and would have to be transported vertically over a long distance.
The customer also asked to minimize the weight of the structure while keeping a higher level of safety.
Because of the high loading, ATLANTA offered a multi-drive gear rack for Material Handling Industry answer, which shared the load over four pinions operating on two lengths of rack. This allowed a smaller sized rack and pinion to be utilized, reducing the weight of the axis drives.
Since accuracy was not essential for the application form, an induction-hardened rack was used. This rack had induction-hardened teeth to provide high thrust capability. To insure that the racks remained stationary under the high loading, two meter lengthy racks were utilized to maximize the amount of mounting screws utilized per section and dowel pins had been utilized to pin the racks set up.
The Ever-Power solution met all the requirements from the client and could handle the high loading from the pipes being transported.
A milling cutter for a wooden working machine has pairs of foundation plates, each plate having a recess to received a slicing put in. Each pair of basis plates is installed on helpful information plate, and numerous such instruction plates are mounted on a common tubular shaft. Each foundation plate has a toothed rack. The toothed racks of every pair of base plates engage a common pinion installed on the tubular shaft. The radial range of each foundation plate is modified by a screw and the racks and pinion be sure that the radial adjustment could be exactly the same for every person in the same pair of base plates. USE – Milling cutters for woodworking planetary gearbox devices.
Linear motion is certainly indispensable to shifting machines; it transports tools and products efficiently and controllably. The mechanisms that generate linear motion are generally rated by their axial velocity and acceleration, axial forces versus structural volume, life, rigidity, and positioning accuracy.
Two common linear systems are linear motors and ballscrew drives. Rack-and-pinion drives tend to be overlooked as past-generation technology with limited positioning accuracy. However, this assumption is invalid.
Precision-ground mounting areas to restricted tolerances, wear-resistant surface treatments, individually deburred gear teeth, and small, low-mass designs are boosting performance. In fact, rack-and-pinion drives evaluate favorably to linear 
motors and also roller or ground-thread ballscrews.
New-generation rack-and-pinion systems offer high dynamic functionality and unlimited travel range. Some include superior servogears and actuators with backlash less than 1 arc-min., performance to 98.5%, and a lot more compact sizes than standard servomotor-gear combinations. Some preassembled gear-pinion units can even run true to 10 µm, for basic safety and smooth motion.