bevel gear

American

noun

Machinery.

a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface, usually meshing with a similar gear set at right angles.

bevel gear British

noun

a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other

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Etymology

Origin of bevel gear

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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In either case the bevel gear wheels z, z′ operate, respectively, a vertical screw engaging a nut on the cross-head.

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There is no longer any necessity of changing any bevel gears.

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The form at C has compound gearing, the drill chuck being driven by the usual form of bevel pinion in mesh with a larger bevel gear at one end of a countershaft.

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She had intended to go for a long run to-day, but yesterday something had all at once gone wrong with the differential, the clutch, the bevel gear or something or other.

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Yet he did reject the bevel gears used by Benz, which might well have been retained, as Frank was later to prove by designing a workable transmission that incorporated such bevel gears.

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