Racks are portions of a cylindrical disk with an infinite radius which includes involute shaped teeth cut into its encounter. Racks mate solely with spur gears that have the same module, pressure angle and preferably encounter width. KHK offers Metric Gear Rack equipment racks in many components, configurations, modules and lengths. One unique feature of our racks is certainly that most are given finished ends. This kind of production allows for multiple racks to end up being butted, end-to-end, to produce one continuous amount of rack. Most of the products that we offer enable secondary procedures such as for example reduction of the length, the adding of tapped holes, or the use of heat therapy. Our offering also contains products which have already had a few of these secondary operations completed.
The straight tooth cylindrical gear for which the radius of the pitch cylinder is infinite and in a bar form is named a gear rack. If it is sorted by the positions of the gear shafts, it belongs to the parallel shaft category. The spur equipment that meshes with a equipment rack is generally called a pinion.

Besides equipment racks with straight collection teeth, there are helical racks that have slanted teeth. Helical gear racks are paired with helical gears, but due to the slant of the tooth path, as in helical gears, the mesh produces axial thrust forces.

Among the apparatus racks’ main applications are machine equipment and transport devices so when the applications involve transmitting linear motions, they are often compared with ball screws. In those cases, the main benefits of gear racks could be named this kind of as having the ability to satisfy a heavier load through the use of larger modules and having no size limitation by connecting gear racks with completed ends. On the other hand, a good example of the disadvantages of equipment racks contains the occurrence of backlash.

When manufacturing equipment racks, because of their bar form, bending often results. In these cases, corrective procedures using presses tend to be employed.