reducing torque with high ratios

[awaterpon]

Hello,

I was able to build a machine to reduce torque with high ratios up to 1:700 gear box.

What applications in mechanical engineering I could use my new invention in?

Thanks,

[Ghideon]

36 minutes ago, awaterpon said:

What applications in mechanical engineering I could use my new invention in?

What is new in the invention? Can you provide some details?

 

Edited May 18, 2019 by Ghideon
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[awaterpon]

Two set of gear box one with 1:14 and the other of 1:56 the total is 784

Torque is first reduced by 1:14 then stored in spring then the spring release its energy to the gearbox 1:56.

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Edited May 18, 2019 by awaterpon

[Ghideon]

21 minutes ago, awaterpon said:

Torque is first reduced by 1:14 then stored in spring then the spring release its energy to the gearbox 1:56.

It looks like a variant of a toy car mechanism. My (rather limited) experiences says these kind of mechanisms are not suited for scaling up, but it works pretty good for small toys.

[npts2020]

If you could scale it up to the size required to propel a ship and if it was smaller/lighter than the current gearing systems onboard them (two giant if's), there is potentially a big market. On a steam powered ship, turbines run efficiently at several thousand rpm while the propellers they power are most efficient at low (typically 100-300) rpm so there is a giant cluster of reduction gears to slow turbine speed down to propeller speed.