bevel gear
mechanical part
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A bevel gear is a toothed wheel used in machinery. It's designed to transmit and modify rotary motion and torque between shafts that are not parallel. Specifically, bevel gears connect intersecting shafts, with their tapered teeth arranged on truncated cones. This design allows for smooth power transmission at a consistent ratio. A related term is a "skew gear," which is a type of bevel gear where the axes of the shafts lie in different planes.1234
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