By using multiple pulleys in a system known as a block and tackle, the force required to lift a weight can be significantly decreased, although this requires moving the force over a greater distance.

Check out this Concept one pulley system; custom with a 427 engine and braided stainless power steering lines. Read more about it in this issue of Custom Rodder Magazine!

02.This 350 small-block Chevy is typical of what’s under the hood of many hot rods. Originally, it ran a V-belt system, but V-belts tend to slip when the horsepower gets ratcheted up too far.

Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI), a Designatronics brand and leading U.S. manufacturer of high-quality ...

The important thing here: even when the pulley is deflected multiple times, the friction is minimal, helped by the mobile rollers in the cavity of the pulley. The system complies with a maximum ...

Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have designed an implant consisting of a simple pulley system that would more effectively transfer mechanical forces and allow more natural grasping ...

A new Belt-Integrated Starter Generator (B-ISG)) offers a multi-mode, variable ratio drive pulley offers cheaper cost and better CO2 reduction than other stop-start systems. It also runs the ...