ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the design of a gear cutting tool for plunge method of machining of bevel gears. The sliding of axodes is one of the major features of quasi-planar gear machining meshes. Due to sliding of the axodes over one another, the sliding of the tooth flanks of the work gear and of the generating surface of the gear cutting tool in gear machining meshes is inevitable. The sliding of tooth flanks is similar to that observed in the gear shaving process. The tooth flank sliding can be employed as the primary (cutting) motion for a gear cutting tool; this is not physically prohibited. Tools for machining bevel gears can also be designed for burnishing of the gear fillets. It is important to note that when the tooth number of the face gear approaches infinity, the schematic of the gear machining process transforms to cylindrical gear-to-rack mesh.
