Sprocket Wheel Research Paper

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The sprocket wheel, a part of the snow mobile equipment used in ice skating. Ice skating is a sport that involve travelling on ice and frozen surfaces from one point to another. The sport used in leisure, for excise and in travelling during the winter period. The snow mobile is a vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow. It is designed to be operated on snow and ice and does not require a road or trail but most are driven on open terrain or trains. Older snowmobiles could generally accommodate two people, however most snowmobiles manufactured in the last twenty five years have been designed for a single rider. The early snowmobiles used rubber tracks, but modern snowmobiles’ tracks are typically made of a Kevlar composite. …show more content…

TOOTH SHAPE
This is the most significant change in the sprocket wheels and are normally described as rounded or semicircular. However, there are believed to be three shapes:- semicircular, slightly rounded, finally the pointed shape which became standard on all versions after the nickel-plated ones.

LARGE BOSS
There exists a strange sequence of bosses in the largest sprockets. There are of two types, the first one, an enlarged copy of the smaller boss, later the version of an improved design with the central hole , not circular preventing the boss from falling apart.
BLACK VARIATIONS
Sprocket wheel after the nickel plating went through a range of colors and settled on the black. The finish being smoother and less matt than the earlier ones. The existence of the two types was confirmed. The blue/black, silver/yellow/black and the gloss black from the start of blue/yellow/zinc.
The finish was then reintroduced in a heavy blue/black paint, with a notable thickness. TYPES, APPLICATIONS AND FUNCTIONS
The split type sprocket, a good alternative for solid type that allows quick installation without interfering with the shaft and

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