TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR DRIVING LARGE EQUIPMENT IN PARTICULAR STEELWORKS CONVERTERS

摘要

1,211,647. Toothed gearing. SIMMERING- GRAZ-PAUKER A.G. FUR MASCHINEN-, KESSELUND WAGGONBAU. 13 Feb., 1968 [15 Feb., 1967], No. 7143/68. Heading F2Q. Tilting gear for a converter comprises a large gear-wheel 1 secured to a trunnion 2 of the converter and meshed by three or more input pinions 23, 24 and 5 or 25, 26 mounted in a common rigid frame or casing 6 which has no contact with the trunnion or gear-wheel, two adjacent pinions 23, 24 being driven from a common shaft 7 via torque balancing gearing. In Fig. 1, to hold the casing 6 against rotation it is pivoted at 9 to a lever 10 on a torsion bar 11, a lever 14 on the torsion bar being connected by a link 15 to the trunnion 2. Alternatively the casing may be formed at (91) with a tooth having a flank angle equal to the pressure angle of the teeth on gear-wheel 1, the tooth engaging a fixed pedestal (18) (Fig. 2, not shown), or the casing may be pivoted at 9 to a radius rod (20) (Fig. 3, not shown) or a fixed member (Fig. 4, not shown). The distance of the point 9 from the trunnion axis is at least 1À5 times the diameter of the gear-wheel 1. To obtain balanced torque division between the pinions 23, 24, they are driven from an axially floating shaft 7 via oppositely handed helical gears 27, 28 and 27, 29 (Fig. 9, not shown), or planetary balance gearing may be used. The shaft 7 and a shaft 8 driving the pinion 5 are synchronized by coupling gearing (Figs. 6 or 7, not shown) and may be driven by separate motors or a single motor. In Fig. 5, four pinions 23-26 are housed in a casing 61 held against rotation by links 46, 47 pivoted to levers 50, 51 having their free ends interconnected at 54. Counterweights, hydraulic rams, or springs 55, 56 compensate for the weight of the casing 61 and the pinions and drive gearing. A torsion bar or rocking lever system may replace the levers 50, 51. Pinions 23, 24 have a torque balancing drive, but pinions 25, 26 have a simple, unbalanced drive. Input shafts 33, 34 are coupled together by synchronizing gearing.