Recent cotton mill construction and engineering (1894)
Nasmith, Joseph · London : J. Heywood · leaf 278
7 the size of the different ropes employed, but what-ever be the cause the effect is the same. Suppose,for instance, that a driving pulley is 30ft. diameterto the line which is intended to be the centre Inieof the rope, or that where it touches the sides ofthe groove. If this pulley revolves say 50… … Fig. 116 that the grooves are so shaped or the rope so reducedthat the diameter of the pulley on the driving Inieis only 29ft. lOin. and that of the driven pulleyonly lift. lOin., then the speed of the rope would be at 50 revolutions per minute—4,687ft., and the driven pulley would make 126…
Textile factories -- Design and construction · Cotton manufacture · Cotton machinery
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