Productivity is a shared goal in industrial applications, involving designers, component makers, and end users. Everyone plays a role. In this report, the editors of Motion System Design polled belt ...

There are three methods of transmitting power mechanically from shaft to shaft: chain drives, gears, and flexible belts. The chief advantage of chains and belts over gears is chains can be used with ...

TOOTHED and friction-gearing are said by the author to be the two distinct classes of power transmission between two shafts, and the silent chain he describes is in the toothed-gearing class according ...

Like other automotive manufacturers, Ford Motor Company wrestled with a common power train concern—incessant noise and vibration in chain-drive systems. Chain drives have been widely used for power ...