skills space

• Manufacturing
• Product development
• Systems and control
  • Introduction
  • Mechanisms
    • Belt and chain systems
    • Gears
    • Linkage
    • Computer control
    • Electronics
    • Pneumatics
  • Mechanisms activity
  • Assembly line
• The numbers game

• Glossary

belt and chain systems

Belt and chain systems use a belt stretched between two pulleys or a chain stretched between two cogs, so that when one pulley turns, the belt turns the second one.

Belt and chain systems are used extensively in the Cadbury factory to move the chocolate products between the various manufacturing stages.