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Power Transmission: Belt Drives, Rope Drives, Chain Drives, Gear Drives

This document discusses various power transmission mechanisms, including belt drives, rope drives, chain drives, and gear drives. It provides details on the components and applications of belt drives, including open belt drives, closed belt drives, flat belts, V-belts, and cross belt drives. Chain drives are used to prevent slippage between components. Gear drives include spur gears, helical gears, bevel gears, hypoid gears, worm gears, and rack and pinion gears. Gear trains can be simple, compound, reverted, or planetary depending on the configuration of gears.

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Power Transmission: Belt Drives, Rope Drives, Chain Drives, Gear Drives

This document discusses various power transmission mechanisms, including belt drives, rope drives, chain drives, and gear drives. It provides details on the components and applications of belt drives, including open belt drives, closed belt drives, flat belts, V-belts, and cross belt drives. Chain drives are used to prevent slippage between components. Gear drives include spur gears, helical gears, bevel gears, hypoid gears, worm gears, and rack and pinion gears. Gear trains can be simple, compound, reverted, or planetary depending on the configuration of gears.

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Power Transmission

Belt drives, Rope Drives, Chain drives, Gear


drives
Power Transmission
Process of transmitting the motion (usually rotary)
• Power is Transmitted from the prime mover to the machine by means of a
mechanisms called drives
• Various drives are
Belt drives
Rope Drives
Chain drives
Gear drives
Belt Drives
• Used to transmit power of motion from one shaft to another by means of a thin
inextensible belt running over two pulleys
• The pulley is a Circular disc mounted on the shaft
• Applications
-Transmit power from prime mover to any device or various parts of the machine
-In mills and Factories, IC engines
when the distance between the two shafts is large
Types of Belt Drives
• Open Belt drive
• Closed Belt drive
Types of belt
Machine shop
Flat Belt
Open Belt Drive

V-Belt
Cross belt drive
Belt drive

• Based on speed requirement – pulley diameter is selected.


Chain drive

• Used to over come the problem of slip


• Little heavier, chance of increase of length, remove links
Chain and sprocket
Gears
• A Wheel provided with teeth is called gear
• Used to transmit power or motion from one shaft to another where distance
between two shafts is relatively small

Gears are generally used for


To reverse direction of rotation
Increase or decrease speed of rotation
To move rotational motion to a different axis
To keep rotation of two motion synchronized
Spur Gear
• These are Simplest and most commonly used gears to transmit motion between two parallel shafts.
• Teeth are cut straight on circumference of wheel and are parallel to axis of wheel
• Used in Gear boxes, clock and watches, Precision Measuring instruments
• Not widely used in Automobiles (More stress on gear tooth and more noise)
Helical Gears
• Same as spur gear except teeth are cut at an angle, longer teeth than spur gear, more surface
–more load,
• These Gears are used to transmit power or motion between two parallel or non parallel non
intersecting shafts
• Mostly used in automobile power transmission where smooth running is necessary at higher
speeds.
Bevel Gear
• Bevel Gears are used to transmit power between two intersecting shafts and
are usually mounted on the shafts that are 90⁰ apart.
• Teeth on conical surface
• Bevel gears – standard, Spiral
• Standard – straight teeth cut
• Spiral - teeth in the for of arc,
• Hypocycloidal – special type of spiral
with hyperbolic pitch
Hypoid gear

• Same as spiral gear, but axes never intersect.


Worm Gears
• These gears used to transmit power of motion between two shafts having their axis at right
angles.
• Worm gear is a type of screw gearing which mesh with a helical gear this screw is called
worm
Rack and Pinion
• A rack is a gear having teeth cut along a straight line while pinion is a gear
with teeth cut along its periphery
• With help of rack and pinion rotary motion can be converted into linear
motion
Gear terminology
Gear train
• Combination of gear
• Simple gear train
• Compound gear train
• Reverted gear train
• Planetary gear train
• Sun and planet gear train.
Simple Gear Train
Compound gear train

In a series of gears, two or more gear rotate about same axis and same angular velocity (or speed).
Revarted gear train

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