Paper: V- BELT DRIVES AND THEIR CARE

It has been estimated that almost half a million oil wells today use V-best drives to transmit power from a prime mover to the pumping unit. Of all the desirable characteristic of the V-belt drive as a power transmission medium- such characteristics as resilience, dependability, adaptability, compactness, ease of speed change, and cleanliness- perhaps the major characteristic responsible for this widespread use of V-belt drives is the fact that inherently they need very little care. In those rare instances where difficulties arise in the operation of the V-belt drive, those difficulties can generally be traced to lack of understanding of the fundamentals of such drives- or to ignoring them.