| Girth gears are most popular gear which is used in | | | | big gear where the teeth fit into the bigger gear. |
| various mechanical and industrial applications. It is | | | | Rotational movement is converted into linear motion |
| important component in the complete gear drive | | | | when the pinion gear turns and moves the racks. |
| assembly, the basic uses of girth gear which separate | | | | Pinion gears are designed to be the best gears |
| from other gears is that they are design & | | | | therefore it’s very popular in all industries. |
| develop in multiple segments; they can be 2, 4 or 8 | | | | Pinion gears are small round gears and large gears are |
| same sizes. Girth gears also called Split ring gears. | | | | known as rack, number of teeth depend the speed |
| From the old year age girth gears have found vast | | | | of rotation. Pinion with smaller number of teeth |
| improvements. Now girth gear has been favored | | | | creates more torque. Pinion gears attached with |
| over the gearless drives because of lower cost, easy | | | | motor shaft with glue. Pinion gears are developed by |
| to install, easy to operate, high quality and high | | | | cast iron, steel, aluminum, bronze, carbon steel and |
| precision components. | | | | hardened steel. |
| The overall life of these gears depends upon proper | | | | There is one more popular type of gear called |
| maintenance. Girth gears are comparatively lower in | | | | Ground gear. Ground gear teeth are crowned with |
| price than others and they quickly install. They are | | | | the perfect amount of tip and root relief to ensure |
| comparatively big in size and difficult to store for long | | | | quiet process. They observe with grade one quality |
| period. | | | | to take up tangential velocity of 1.5 meters p/s. |
| Girth gear materials have made many changes and | | | | Ground gears have advantages like, good efficiency, |
| casting is very improved. Replication programs are | | | | they can carry heavy loads, ground gears are having |
| installed for authentication of proper solidification. New | | | | longer life and ground gears are having transmission |
| materials are used with an added advantage of | | | | correctness |
| increase in solidity and therefore increased ratings. | | | | Ground gears mainly use in Cement Plants, Thermal |
| It’s very much required in kiln drives, sugar mills | | | | Power Station, Fertilizer plants, Sugar Mills, Sponge |
| and steel industries. | | | | Mineral Plants, Chemical Plants, Iron Plants, Steel |
| Pinion gear is smaller in size or its always work with | | | | Rolling Plants. |