Development of Jacketing Machine

Flat Belt is manufactured almost all over the world. In the Transmission Industries, Flat Belt is almost available in every part. In modern trend demand has been significantly increased. To fulfil the increased demand for flat belt, jacketing operation of flat Belt must be paced up. In traditional jacketing processes which are carried out manually take more time, labour work and also provide damage to industry growth. To overcome this and to minimize stress on workers, an attempt has been made to design a jacketing machine for flat belt, which is simple in design and can be handled by the common man. The demand for a flat belt jacketing machine is higher and it is time to respond to the problem raised. Designing and fabricating such types of functional machines is important to save money instead of investing money and time buying labor and conventional tool. Since metal resources are declining and their products are very expensive as compared to rubber, it’s preferable to use Rubber flat belts rather than using chains for transmission. As per the studies, it is easier and economical to use belt drives replacing chain drives and it is good for the future without disturbing the ecosystem. Study shows that while analyzing the force and power for machines the designer takes the help of analysis software. The cost of software for analysis is high. So there is requirement to find simple formula. In this paper the various theories regarding bending are reviewed, formulae for force and power calculation are collected and finally a case study is taken where we have put together all the results of these formulae. Our main concern is to reduce the human effort required in jacketing of flat belt and also to save the time, labour work, lead time, and move towards the partial automation. The machine has been designed and developed to minimize the cost of production and increase the efficiency.