摘要 |
<p>A loader (10) for a gear burnishing machine includes a gear carrier (144) and a guide embodied by a rack (122) for cooperating to move a gear to be burnished into meshing relationship with a gear rack of the burnishing machine. A hopper (22) including a feed mechanism provides feeding of the gears to the carrier. Carrier movement moves the gears from the hopper to the machine as the guide rack aligns the gear teeth for meshing with the gear rack teeth. A retaining shaft of the carrier captures the gears between spaced retainers of the carrier as the gears move to the machine for burnishing. A retaining member (66) and a movable dog (84) of the feed mechanism cooperate in feeding gears to the carrier. After burnishing, an actuator including a pusher (204) moves the burnished gear off the guide to a delivery unit 14 including an inclined ramp (198).</p> |