Abstract
Recently variable-ratio gears are increasingly being used to drive the modern machines. For this purpose cams and non-circular gears are often used. In the past, the production of non-circular gears was a very complicated process, which explains their relatively limited use in practice. In the 20th century, Professor F. Litvin played a great role in the development of theory and manufacture of non-circular gears. Modern technologies of the 21st century make the manufacturing relatively cheap and easy, using high-precision machine-tools, 3D prototyping and spraying. The paper considers the history of non-circular gears evolution and application.
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Egorova, O.V., Barbashov, N.N., Kiselev, R.M. (2022). Evolution History of Non-circular Gears. In: Ceccarelli, M., López-García, R. (eds) Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms. HMM 2022. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98499-1_30
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