Racks are portions of a cylindrical disk with an infinite radius which has involute shaped teeth cut into its face. Racks mate solely with spur gears which have the same module, pressure position and preferably face width. EVER-POWER offers equipment racks in many materials, configurations, modules and lengths. One exclusive feature of our racks is usually that most are given finished ends. This type of production allows for multiple racks to be butted, end-to-end, to produce one continuous length of rack. Most of the products that people offer allow for secondary operations such as reduction of the space, the adding of tapped holes, or the use of heat therapy. Our offering also includes products which have already had some of these secondary operations completed. The products are determined by a “J” within their part number and they are available within 10 calendar days.
The straight tooth cylindrical gear for which the radius of the pitch cylinder is infinite and in a bar form is called a gear rack. If it’s sorted by the positions of the apparatus shafts, it belongs to the parallel shaft category. The spur gear that meshes with a equipment rack is generally called a pinion.
Besides gear racks with straight line teeth, there are helical racks that have slanted tooth. Helical equipment racks are paired with helical gears, but due to the slant of the tooth path, as in helical gears, the mesh produces axial thrust forces.
Among the apparatus racks’ main applications are machine tools and transport devices so when the applications involve transmitting linear motions, they are often compared with ball screws. In those cases, the main advantages of gear racks could be named this kind of as being able to fulfill a heavier load through the use of larger modules and having no duration limitation by connecting gear racks with completed ends. On the other hand, an example of the disadvantages of gear racks includes the occurrence of backlash.
When manufacturing equipment racks, because of their bar shape, bending often outcomes. In these cases, corrective procedures using presses tend to be employed.
As for the type of gear racks, aside from the usual bar shape, there are round racks where the cross sections are circular and flexible racks which may be bent into totally free curve shapes.
Racks Categories
EVER-POWER stock racks are created for high precision linear motion applications. You can expect a large selection of racks which range from module 0.5 to 10 and lengths from 100 to 2000 mm.
Hardened Surface Racks (MRGF – MRGFD)
Has the highest strength and precision in the EVER-POWER regular rack series. Bolt holes can be remachined as carburizing is usually applied only within the tooth area. J Series products are also available.
Hardened Ground Racks (KRGF-H – KRGFD-H)
Heat treated surface gears with high precision and strength has exceptional cost-performance ratio. J Series products are also available.
Steel Racks (SR)
Low cost, huge selections of modules and number of teeth. J Series products are also available.
Stainless Steel Racks (SUR·SURF·SURFD)
Suitable for food machinery because of SUS304 material\’s rust-resistant quality.
Brass Racks (BSR)
Small pitch racks manufactured from free-cutting brass, superb workability and high rust resistance.

Gear racks
Gear racks are used to convert rotating movement into linear movement. A equipment rack has straight the teeth cut into one surface of a sq . or round portion of rod and operates with a pinion, which is definitely a small cylindrical gear meshing with the apparatus rack. Generally, gear rack and pinion are collectively called “rack and pinion”. There are various ways to use gears. For instance, as demonstrated in the picture, a equipment is used with the gear rack to rotate a parallel shaft.
To provide many variants of rack and pinion, Ever-power has various kinds of equipment racks in share. If the application takes a long size requiring multiple equipment racks in series, we have racks with the tooth forms correctly configured at the ends. These are described as “equipment racks with machined ends”. Whenever a equipment rack is produced, the tooth cutting process and the heat treatment process could cause it to try & walk out true. We can control this with unique presses & remedial processes.
There are applications where in fact the gear rack is stationary, while the pinion traverses and others where in fact the pinion rotates on a fixed axis while the gear rack moves. The previous is used widely in conveying systems while the latter can be used in extrusion systems and lifting/lowering applications.
As a mechanical element to transfer rotary into linear movement, gear racks tend to be in comparison to ball screws. There are benefits and drawbacks for using racks instead of ball screws. The benefits of a equipment rack are its mechanical simplicity, large load carrying capacity, and no limit to the distance, etc. One disadvantage though may be the backlash. The benefits of a ball screw are the high precision and lower backlash while its shortcomings are the limit in duration due to deflection.
Rack and pinions are used for lifting mechanisms (vertical movement), horizontal movement, positioning mechanisms, stoppers and also to let the synchronous rotation of several shafts in general industrial machinery. However, they are also found in steering systems to improve the direction of cars. The features of rack and pinion systems in steering are the following: simple structure, high rigidity, little and lightweight, and excellent responsiveness. With this system, the pinion, installed to the steering shaft, is usually meshed with a steering rack to transmit rotary movement laterlly (converting it to linear movement) so that you can control the wheel. In addition, rack and pinions are utilized for various other purposes, such as playthings and lateral slide gates.
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Gear rack, when used with spur gears, converts rotary movement into linear motion. Gear rack from Ever-power is designed to operate with our share 14 1/2° and 20° PA spur gears.
Often, equipment rack is modified to match specific applications. This may include drilling and tapping mounting holes, cutting to specific lengths or complementing ends of two pieces of rack to make a continuous size longer than stock.
· Ever-power’s gear rack comes in 14 1/2° and 20° PA to suit a wide variety of application requirements.
· Stocked in 4ft and 6ft lengths
· The choice of 48 to 3 DP meets an equally varied array of needs.
· Length tolerance allows ends to be matched for easy modification.
· Our in-stock inventory of nylon, and metal ensures availability – and compatibility.
· Because it is properly matched to Ever-power’s spur gears, our gear rack promises superior efficiency.
Gear Racks – Adjustments Rotational Motion into Linear Motion