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PowerBand® Belts

PowerBand® Belts

PowerBand® Belts

Product catalog summary
Overview: The document discusses the Predator V-belt, designed for shock-loaded applications, highlighting its construction, benefits, features, and case studies demonstrating its effectiveness in various industries.
Specifications and Features:
  • Predator belts are constructed with KEVLAR® or aramid tensile cords, providing extraordinary strength, durability, and virtually zero stretch.
  • They feature a non-rubber surfaced cover, chloroprene rubber compounds, and a specially-treated tough cover for maximum abrasion resistance.
  • Available in PowerBand® belts and Singles, they offer over 20-50% more horsepower than standard V-belts.
Benefits:
  • Allows momentary slippage without burning up, eliminating the need for constant re-tensioning.
  • Provides superb oil and heat resistance, withstanding slip and shear forces at peak loads.
  • Compensates for sidewall bulge, ensuring uniform loading and maximum belt life.
  • Protects against wear from fine airborne dust, ideal for industries like rock quarries and lumber mills.
Applications:
  • Ideal for high-impact strength and load-carrying power in industries such as wood products, mining, rock crushing, and oil fields.
  • Used in equipment like crushers, grinders, shredders, and car shredders.
Case Studies:
  • Green Triangle Forest Products Hogger Drive: Switching to Predator Singles eliminated frequent belt replacements and downtime.
  • Carter Holt Harvey Chipper Drive: Reduced maintenance time and costs by switching to Predator Singles.
  • Carter Holt Harvey Band Saw Drive: Improved belt life and reduced replacement costs with Predator Singles.
Recommendations:
  • Evaluate the load capacity of standard sheaves before using Predator V-belts in heavily-loaded applications.
  • Consider Predator belts for applications with frequent tension loss or extreme shock-loads.
Conclusion: Predator belts offer a robust solution for challenging applications, providing increased productivity and reduced maintenance costs through their innovative design and construction.
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Catalog excerpts

PowerBand® Belts-2

Where standard V-belts don’t meet the challe Available in both PowerBand® belts and Singles, Predator® belts have the highest power density of any V-belt, and stretch dramatically less than standard cross sections. That’s why they’re ideal for use on problem drives requiring high-impact strength and load-carrying power, including: crushers, de-barkers, hogs, grinders, wood hogs, pallet grinders, shredders, tub grinders and car shredders. 180 160 Standard 8V 0 17" O.D. 8VP 100 12.5" O.D. 8VP 120 Standard 5V 140 12.5" O.D 5VP Replaces several belts with the strength of a single belt. Features a...

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PowerBand® Belts-3

enge, Gates Predator belts are the solution. Predator Singles Now offered for applications when PowerBand belts are not an option. These belts are specially designed for use on metric multi-groove sheaves, deep groove sheaves and drives with limited room for "take up." They can also be an "A" section solution for multi-groove A/B sheaves. Case Studies: Predator Singles Green Triangle Forest Products Hogger Drive A hogger drive running five 5V 850 belts was burning through them every few months. When the belts failed, there was 1-2 hours of downtime to replace and re-ten- sion the drive. After...

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PowerBand® Belts-4

How can Predator belts help solve your most common shock-load belt drive problems and save you money at the same time? The scenarios and case studies listed below are real-life examples of how Predator belts can work for you. A machine that easily shreds cars to the size of baseballs in an average of 30 seconds can be demanding. The 48-groove 8V section drive con- stantly needed re-tensioning, but the design of the drive did not allow for it, so the belts flopped until they wore out. The recycling company was continually spending time and resources to main- tain the equipment. Gates provided...

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