The High Productivity of the Rolling Process Used in Gear Finishing

This article mainly deals with, the rolling process specially arranged for rolling truck gears, and how it possesses all the requirements for high productivity. It briefly relates the special construction of the machine and tool, what quality level the process can attain and what effect it influences on heat treatment distortion and crystalline structure of the work piece. Finally it gives some rules of the change of the trace of contact area on the gear flank due to tool wear and predicts that wide spreading acceptance of the process will be expected.