.~.~ Making a noncircular gear, worm, rotor, or a planar-faced gear
DEFINITION
Classification: 409/48
Making a noncircular gear, worm, rotor, or a planar-faced gear:
(under subclass 10) Apparatus or method wherein the intended product comprises: (a) A rotary driving member including a plurality of intermeshable elements intended to sequentially engage similar elements on another similar member wherein the elements on the member being formed are positioned in a path that is other than circular about the axis of the rotary member; (b) a rotary driving member including a ridge-like intermeshable element extending helically about the axis thereof, which member is intended to transmit rotary motion to another member; (c) a rotary member including an element intended to intermesh with a similar element on another member, wherein the members are not actually intended to transmit force to one another, but rather are intended to transmit force to something else (as in the case of the rotary members of a gear-type pump), or (d) a rotary driving member including a face normal to the rotary axis thereof and including an intermeshable element extending generally axially therefrom.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
65+, for generating a screw thread on a nongearlike member.
