Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1928
Date 29-Nov
Volume 59
Issue 1,438
Page 513
Category Workshop
Part
Title The Length of Open Driving Belts
Author
Notes Finding the length of open drive belt, finding three speed cone pulley diameters, finding required driving wheel size. Some references and apologies, necessary dimensions and standards employed, finding the length of a belt, practical considerations, the ratio between step up and step down, using equal length of belt, to find a mean tangent radius to two equal length belt gears, the completion of the setting out, to apply the setting out to other conditions, measuring a circular arc in inches when necessary, some extra hints, a note on transferring the findings to a given job, summary in conclusion