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An example of a standard type chain with cables running through it. Cable carriers, also known as drag chains, energy chains, or cable chains depending on the manufacturer, are guides designed to surround and guide flexible electrical cables and hydraulic or pneumatic hoses connected to moving automated machinery.
Drag chain may refer to: Cable carrier in moving machinery; Drag conveyor, for moving bulk material; A type of chain shift in linguistics; Part of a dragline excavator;
The gear is turned, and this pulls the chain putting mechanical force into the system. Another type of drive chain is the Morse chain, invented by the Morse Chain Company of Ithaca, New York, United States. This has inverted teeth. [2] Sometimes the power is output by simply rotating the chain, which can be used to lift or drag objects.
The difference between drag conveyors, scraper conveyors, and flight conveyors largely depends on whether the chain links have obvious flights or paddles attached. [4] In a drag conveyor, the chain moves the material directly, while a flight conveyor uses a series of wood, metal, or plastic flights attached to the chain at regular intervals ...
The term noria is commonly used for devices which use the power of moving water to turn the wheel instead. [14] Other types of similar devices are grouped under the name of chain pumps. A noria in contrast uses the water power obtained from the flow of a river.
Water crane in Stützerbach, Germany Signals and water cranes at Horsted Keynes station on the Bluebell Railway Water crane in Kladno, Czech Republic. A water crane is a device used for delivering a large volume of water into the tank or tender of a steam locomotive. [1] [2] [3] The device is also called a water column in the United States and ...
Anchor – Device used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting; Heaving to – Way of slowing a sailing vessel's forward progress; Mooring – Structure for securing floating vessels; Sea anchor – Drag device used to stabilize a boat in heavy weather and reduce drift
Cable ferries have probably been used to cross rivers and similar bodies of water since before recorded history. Examples of ferry routes using this technology date back to the 13th century (Hampton Ferry in England). In 1831 James Meadows Rendel introduced chain ferries worked by steam and in 1832 constructed one crossing the Dart at Dartmouth ...