Specification Guides

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ANSI Roller Chain Sprockets

Roller chain sprockets engage chain drives in power transmission and conveyor systems, though sprockets can engage any perforated material. Chain drives can be highly efficient and can produce a mechanical advantage as speed reducers/increasers. Sprockets conforming to ANSI standard B 29.1 are not meant to engage roller chains of any other parameter. ANSI conforming roller chain is smaller and somewhat weaker than its European counterpart.

Belt and Chain Tensioners

Belt and chain tensioners apply and maintain correct tension on power transmission drive systems.

Conveyor Belts

Conveyor belts are used in a wide variety of material transport applications such as manufacturing, food processing, and heavy industry. Belt construction and belt materials are often application-specific.

Conveyor Sprockets

Conveyor sprockets (mill sprockets, engineering class sprockets, engineered sprockets) are used in conjunction with conveyor chains or conveyor belts.

Flat Belts

Flat belts are used in transmission and conveying systems. They feature transmission efficiency, cost effectiveness and ease of installation and use. Typical belt applications include conveyors, machine tools, and heavy industrial equipment.

Flexible Couplings

Flexible couplings connect rotating members while allowing some degree of angular or parallel misalignment.

Gearboxes and Gearheads

Gearboxes and gearheads, also called gear reducers or speed reducers, are power transmission devices that use a gear arrangement in an enclosed housing to transfer energy, increase torque and reduce speed from one device to another. Gearboxes may also be referred to as gear reducers or speed reducers.

ISO Roller Chain Sprockets

Roller chain sprockets engage chain drives in power transmission and conveyor systems, though sprockets can engage any perforated material. Chain drives can produce a mechanical advantage as speed reducers/increasers. ISO sprockets are designed to engage British Standard Chain and conform to ISO standard R606. These sprockets are not interchangable with ANSI defined sprockets.

Linear Shafts

Linear shafts are elongated, rod-shaped devices that provide linear or rotary motion for power transmission applications.

Ratchets and Pawls

Ratchets and pawls are mechanical gearing used to transmit intermittent rotary motion. They permit a shaft to rotate in one direction, but not in the opposite one.

Rigid Couplings

Rigid couplings connect rotating members such as shafts. They secure onto both members and provide transmission of torque and motion.

Roller Chain

Roller chain is used in power transmission applications. Products are characterized by ANSI and BS/DIN standard sizes.

Rotary Shafts

Rotary shafts are elongated, rod-shaped devices that rotate about a longitudinal axis and transmit torque. They are similar in shape to linear shafts, but are designed to withstand torsional forces.

Round Belt Pulleys

Round belt or pulleys are used in mechanical lifts and transmissions with o-rings, round belts, cables, ropes, or wires.

Round Belts and O-ring Belts

Round belts and o-ring belts are light-to-medium duty power transmission belts. They can be solid or hollow, and can easily be used in 3-D applications.

Shaft Collars

Shaft collars attach to shafts and are used as stop features or targets for devices such as tachometers.

Shaft-Hub Locking Devices

Shaft-hub locking devices frictionally clamp gears, pulleys, flywheels, and other components to a shaft without the need for threads or keys.

Slewing Drives

Slewing drives are a type of special gearbox designed to translate axial movement, typically of a worm gear, to radial movement. Typical applications of slewing drives include wind turbines, solar tracking systems, satellite broadcasting systems aerospac

Spline Shafts

A spline shafts has grooves or tongues machined along its length for torque transmission or anti-rotation linear guide applications.

Timing Belts (metric)

Metric pitch timing belts mate with same-pitch timing pulleys in power transmission systems where maintenance-of-speed ratio is an important design consideration. Metric pitch is the distance between belt teeth based on millimeters (mm).

Timing Pulleys (metric)

Timing pulleys mesh with same-pitch timing belts on synchronous drives where maintenance of speed ratio is important. These pulleys have a millimeter-based pitch designation.

Universal Joints

Universal joints are flexible mechanical connections used to transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another shaft that is not in line with the first, or when alignment varies during service.

V-Belt Pulleys

V-belt pulleys or sheaves mate with drive belts in numerous power transmission applications. They are made in many configurations such as tension idlers and variable speed/ratio pulleys.

V-Belts and V-Ribbed Belts

V-belts and V-ribbed belts are power transmission drive belts with a triangular or trapezoidal cross section. They are available in a variety of belt materials, reinforcement styles, and speed configurations.

Wheel and Track Drives

Wheel and track drives are a gearbox, motor and brake assembly which power wheeled or tracked vehicles. Motors can be either electric or hydraulically powered.