What is a drive belt?

The drive belt is the power generated by the rotation of the motor or engine of the prime mover, which is transmitted to the mechanical equipment through the belt pulley by the tape, so it is also called the power belt. It is the core linkage components of electromechanical equipment, an exceptionally wide variety of extremely wide range of uses. From large to thousands of kilowatts of giant motors, small to less than a kilowatt micro-motor, even including home appliances, computers, robots and other precision machinery are inseparable from the transmission belt. Its biggest feature is that it can be free to change speed, near and far transmission, simple structure, easy to replace. Therefore, from the original machinery to modern automatic equipment have transmission belt figure, the product has gone through many evolutions, the technology is becoming mature. 17th century, the United States began to apply the aerial cableway transmission of bulk materials; the middle of the 19th century, a variety of modern structure of the conveyor belt conveyor appeared one after another. In 1868, in the United Kingdom appeared belt conveyor; 1887, in the United States appeared screw conveyor; 1905, in Switzerland appeared steel belt conveyor; 1906, in the United Kingdom and Germany appeared inertia conveyor. Since then, the conveyor belt conveyor by the mechanical manufacturing, electrical machinery, chemical and metallurgical industry, the impact of technological progress, and constantly improve, and gradually by the completion of the internal transmission of the workshop, the development of the completion of the material handling within the enterprise, between enterprises and even between cities, and become an indispensable part of the mechanization of the material handling system and automation. Conveyor belts are generally categorized according to the presence or absence of traction parts.　　The conveyor belt with traction parts generally includes traction parts, bearing components, driving devices, tensioning devices, redirection devices and support parts. The traction piece is used to transmit traction, can be used conveyor belt, traction chain or wire rope; bearing components to bear the material, hopper, bracket or spreader, etc.; drive device to the conveyor to power, generally by the motor, reducer and brake (stop) and so on; tensioning device generally screw and hammer type two, can make the traction piece to maintain a certain tension and vertical to ensure the normal operation of the conveyor belt; bearing pieces Used to support the traction piece or bearing components, can be used rollers, rollers and so on.　　The structure of the conveyor belt equipment with traction parts is characterized by: the material to be transported in and traction parts connected together with the bearing components, or directly on the traction parts (such as conveyor belts), the traction parts around the drums or sprockets connected to the first and the last, the formation of a closed loop including the delivery of the material with a branch and do not transport the material of the closed loop of the branch without the material, the use of continuous movement of the traction parts of the transport of materials.　　This type of conveyor belt equipment, mainly belt conveyor, plate conveyor, trolley conveyor, escalator, moving walkway, scraper conveyor, submerged scraper conveyor, bucket conveyor, bucket elevator, hanging conveyor and aerial ropeways and so on.　　There is no traction piece of conveyor belt equipment of different structural composition, used to transport the material of the workpiece is not the same. Their structure is characterized by: the use of rotary movement or reciprocating movement of the workpiece, or the use of media flow in the pipeline to make the material forward conveyance. For example, the roller conveyor work for a series of rollers, rollers for the rotary movement to transport materials; screw conveyor work for the screw, screw in the trough for the rotary movement to push the material along the trough; vibrating conveyor work for the trough, trough for the reciprocating movement to transport the material placed in it and so on. Conveyor belts are generally classified according to the presence or absence of traction parts.　　With traction parts of the conveyor belt generally include traction parts, bearing components, driving devices, tensioning devices, redirection devices and support parts. The traction piece is used to transmit traction, can be used conveyor belt, traction chain or wire rope; bearing components to bear the material, hopper, bracket or spreader, etc.; drive device to the conveyor to power, generally by the motor, reducer and brake (stop) and so on; tensioning device generally screw and hammer type two, can make the traction piece to maintain a certain tension and vertical to ensure the normal operation of the conveyor belt; bearing pieces Used to support the traction piece or bearing components, can be used rollers, rollers and so on.　　The structure of the conveyor belt equipment with traction parts is characterized by: the material to be transported in and traction parts connected together with the bearing components, or directly on the traction parts (such as conveyor belts), the traction parts around the drums or sprockets connected to the first and the last, the formation of a closed loop including the delivery of the material with a branch and do not transport the material of the closed loop of the branch without the material, the use of continuous movement of the traction parts of the transport of materials.　　This type of conveyor belt equipment, mainly belt conveyor, plate conveyor, trolley conveyor, escalator, moving walkway, scraper conveyor, submerged scraper conveyor, bucket conveyor, bucket elevator, hanging conveyor and aerial ropeways and so on.　　There is no traction piece of conveyor belt equipment of different structural composition, used to transport the material of the workpiece is not the same. Their structure is characterized by: the use of rotary movement or reciprocating movement of the workpiece, or the use of media flow in the pipeline to make the material forward conveyance. For example, the roller conveyor work for a series of rollers, rollers for the rotary movement to transport materials; screw conveyor work for the spiral, screw in the trough for the rotary movement to push the material along the trough; vibrating conveyor work for the trough, trough for the reciprocating movement of the materials placed in it, and so on.