ABSTRACT
Gear cutting tools include, but are not limited to, machining-gear hobs and shaving cutters for finishing gears. Their designs originate from the vector diagram of the external spatial gear machining mesh shown in Figure 15.1. Other novel gear cutting tools and corresponding methods for machining cylindrical and conical gears can be designed based on that same vector diagram of the external spatial gear machining mesh (see Figure 3.8). The following examples of novel designs of gear cutting tools and methods for machining gears demonstrate the applications of gear machining meshes (see Figure 3.8).
