Standard cotton mill practice and equipment, with classified buyer's index (1918)
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. Year book of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers · Boston : The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers · leaf 28
25 in a number of widths; so that successful designs are possible for lightloads at high speeds, by using the short pitch chains, or for heavy loadsat slower speeds, for which the long pitch chains are adapted. Indi-vidual Chain Drives, transmitting as much as 5000 H.P., are in successfuloperation… … Fig. 1. GENERAL CONSTRUCTION OF CHAIN DRIVE the links are formed so that they will be compensating on the sprockets—that is, when the chains are allowed to run somewhat slack, they rideout to their true pitch circle on the sprockets engaging the teeth allaround so far as they wrap and practically…
