The Third Generation of Gearboxes for an Apron Feeder Drive

Abstract

Current trends to improve the mechanical drive for mining and metallurgical equipment are examined on the example of three generations of the apron feeder drives. It is shown that the development processes of tooth carburization and grinding, together with the optimization of geometrical parameters allows decreasing the factor of specific material capacity of cylindrical-bevel reducers fourfold compared with standard gearboxes of the eighties.