MIter Gear

What is Miter gear ?

Miter gears are one type of bevel gears where the two rotational axes intersect. When speaking of narrow definition of bevel gears with ability to increase or decrease speed, miter gears do not have that ability due to the pair’s same number of teeth. Their purpose is limited to the change in transmission direction.

Where to use ?

You’ll find bevel gears in a number of everyday items, devices, and machines, including automobiles, printing presses, power plants, cooling towers, marine applications, steel plants, and railway track inspection machines.

They’re commonly used in differential drives, which are capable of transmitting power to two axles that spin at different speeds (and are perfect for automobiles). They’re also used as the main driving action in hand drills, since the handle of the drill spins in a vertical direction to translate force to a horizontal rotation. You’ll also find spiral bevel gears as important components in rotorcraft drive systems, which need to operate at high loads and high speeds.