Applications of Belt Drive and selection

method for Industrial Application

By-Rushikesh R. Khadilkar
Belt Drive
• A belt is a looped strip of flexible material used to mechanically link
two or more rotating shafts.
• A belt drive offers smooth transmission of power between shafts at a
considerable distance.
• Belt drives are used as the source of motion to transfer to efficiently
transmit power or to track relative movement.
Types of Belt Drives
1. Open Belt Drive-An open belt drive is used to rotate the driven
pulley in the same direction of driving pulley.

2. Crossed Belt Drive-A crossed belt drive is used to rotate driven

pulley in the opposite direction of driving pulley.
Advantages and Disadvantages
• Advantages-
1. They don’t need parallel shafts.
2. Belts drives are provided with overload and jam protection.
3. Noise and vibration are damped out. Machinery life is increased because load fluctuations are
shock-absorbed.
4. They are lubrication-free.
• Disadvantages
1. Heat build-up occurs.
2. Speed is limited to usually 35 meters per second. Power transmission is limited to 370
kilowatts.
3. angular velocity ratio is not necessarily constant or equal to the ratio of pulley diameters,
because of slipping and stretching.
Types of Belts
• Round belts
• Flat belts
• V- belts
• Toothed or timing belts
 Applications of Flat Belt drive
• Drives to beaters on conventional blow rooms.
• Crossed flat-belt transmits drives from cylinder to flat on old cards.
• Drives in high production cards such as the drive from motor to lickerin and cylinder;
drive to cleaner roller at the delivery side; drive from motor to flat-stripper roller and
crossed-flat-belt drive from cylinder to a pulley from where further drive proceeds
through double stage speed reduction using worm and worm gears and a mechanical
clutch to the driving-shaft of flat.
• Drive to drafting rollers and other rolling elements on a single delivery drawing machine.
• Drives to opening rollers, friction drums and take-off rollers on friction spinning machine.
• Drive to rotor on rotor-spinning machine.
• Main drive on draw-texturing machine.
• Drive to creel-rollers of a high speed drawing machine.
Selection of Flat belts
1. Note down the data available-
• Power to be transmitted
• Input and output speeds
• Centre distance
2. Select belt speed and calculate diameter of pulleys-
1. For flat belts optimum speed ranges from 18-25m/s.
3. Select nearest standard pulley diameters and calculate actual belt
speed.
4. Select the service factor or load correction factor Fa for the given
application
Selection of belts (cont…)
5. Calculate the design power (Pa)
• Pd=Fa*P where Pd=design power, Fa=service factor, P= power to be
transmitted
6. Calculate arc of contact for smaller pulley and find arc of contact
correction factor.
7. Find the power rating of belt (kW) per mm width of belt per ply at
180 degrees arc of contact and 10m/s belt speed from
manufactures' catalogue.
8. Calculate the modified power transmitting capacity (kW)m per mm
width of belt per ply for actual arc of contact Ɵ and belt speed V.
Cont.…
9. Calculate the product (belt width*no of plies)
10. Select the standard belt width and the number of plies from
manufacturers’ catalogue.
11. Calculate belt length.

In this way Belts are selected for manufacturers catalogue. Other types
of belts are also selected in the same way with change in certain
parameters.
Thank You