Drive shafts could not function without splines. Drive shafts are used to transmit torque from an engine to the wheels of a vehicle, but drive shafts are also widely used in other industrial processes and even in some consumer products. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Omni Gear & Machine Corporation
Joliet, IL | 800-876-7216Omni G & M Corporation is a leading gear fabricator specializing in precision machined and custom solutions in a variety of sizes and types. Please check out Omni G & M’s website or call a friendly personnel member today! Omni G & M’s commitment to customers is job #1 and customers across the United States depend on Omni’s experienced professionals for quality and reliability.
Commercial Gear & Sprocket Company, Inc.
East Walpole, MA | 800-491-1073Gears are what we do best, and we are experts in our field. We have three generations of experience backing our company, and we use all of it to benefit you in any way possible. We know exactly how to make gears efficiently and with durability. No matter what kind of gear you need, we can get it for you. Contact us today for additional details!
Gear Motions, Inc.
Syracuse, NY | 315-488-0100Gear Motions is a leading gear manufacturer specializing in supplying custom cut and ground gears. Whether we’re manufacturing your gear complete or working from your blanks, our wide range of precision gear manufacturing capabilities and services deliver quality gears to meet almost any application. The Gear Motions network is capable of manufacturing all types of products including precision ground helical, spur, bevel and worm gears, sprockets, timing pulleys, shafts, splines and more.
Precision Pump & Gear Works
Houston, TX | 713-862-6200Precision Pump and Gear Works specializes in gear repairs by either rebuilding the broken or chipped teeth, re-cutting them, or by rehobbing them. Part of our repair process is determining what happened so we can report it back to our customers; any misalignments, excessive temperatures, or overloading in the machine will be reported. We offer gearbox repair 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Precision Pump will pick up and deliver gearboxes for free, all across the US. For more information about PPG call us today!
Schafer Gear Works, Inc.
South Bend, IN | 574-234-4116Schafer Gear Works is a leading producer of high-precision, custom-engineered industrial gears & machined parts. Look to us for the production of your spur, helical or internal gears. Since 1934, our values of hard work & commitment to customer satisfaction have been well ingrained into the culture of our company. Bring us your most demanding specifications and we’ll provide effective solutions.
Perry Tool & Research, Inc.
Hayward, CA | 510-782-9226Perry Tool & Research produces powder metal gears to AGMA standards of 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 and processes to a Cpk 1.33 minimum. Bushings, bearings, grooved pulleys and an array of other mechanical parts are manufactured to the same high standards. We have 42 years of excellence producing powder metal parts.
Spline Gears - The Adams CompanyIn an automobile, the energy generated by the combustion reaction in the engine's cylinder forces the movement of a piston, which is connected to a rod, which eventually transfers rotational motion to the drive shaft and other industrial gears. The drive shaft would not be able to connect to other rotational motion transmission equipment without splines.
Spline Gears - The Adams CompanySplined gears serve similar purposes in motorized watercraft and other vehicles. In a spline gear, a male spline attached to a shaft meshes with a female spline, equalizing the rotational speed. Spline gears can be, in terms of their spline shape, nonhelical, involute, or straight-sided. Spline shape contributes to the gear's durability and operation qualities.
Teeth quantity, pitch diameter, face width and length all contribute to spline gear performance. The pitch of spline gears is determined by the number of teeth and the preferred pitch diameter. Another important factor to consider is the material of construction, as different spline gear composition materials perform differently under different circumstances. Factors that contribute to optimal spline performance are its power transmission requirements, heat generation and the presence of corrosive elements.
Spline gears can be made of aluminum, brass, bronze, cast iron, steel and even plastics like nylon and polycarbonates. Spline gears may also be made with a combination of metal and plastic. Splines can also be designed for use in small motors. Fans, space heaters, pumps and other small motors require a means by which the energy generated in the motor can be transferred to other moving parts. Splines provide the first avenue by which that torque can be transmitted to other moving parts. Such splines are very small and tend to vary in terms of their composition much more than do splines applied in automotive or other heavy-duty equipment contexts.