Gleason Corp.

United States

An inserted-blade circular face-mill roughing cutter that uses compression blocks for rigidly clamping blades in the head. This special design eliminates tapped holes in the head or blade shanks, so more blades can be used to obtain faster cutting times.

Straight bevel gears are an increasingly popular choice for certain applications. Prior to the introduction by Gleason of a 6-axis machining process for straight bevel gears in 2006, there was no modern machinery or process to cut or grind straight bevel gears. The process introduced in 2006 was a wet cutting process, using traditional high speed steel cutting tools. The new CONIFLEXPlus system raises the bar by allowing the use of coated carbide cutting tools in a high-speed dry cutting environment. This new process is up to three times faster than its predecessor, avoids the use of cutting fluids, and consumes only 25% of the energy of traditional straight bevel gear cutting. The geometry of existing straight bevel gear designs will be exactly duplicated using the new CONIFLEXPlus cutter system. Furthermore the new system provides additional freedoms for strength and noise optimizations due to the free design of profile curvature, dish angle edge radius and blade point. The PENTAC stick blades, used in CONIFLEXPlus cutter heads can be sharpened on existing standard Gleason stick blade sharpening machines, no additional software or fixtures are required.

An inserted-blade face mill cutter designed for high production pinion roughing operations where an increased number of blades equates to decreased production cycle times. The use of wedges for clamping permits the maximum number of cutter blades within a given circumferential diameter.