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FOREWORD
For the first edition of ASME B29.100, the B29 Standards
Committee agreed to propose a draft standard to consolidate and
revise the following three chain standards: ASME B29.1M, Precision
Power Transmission Roller Chains, Attachments, and Sprockets; ASME
B29.3M, Double-Pitch Power Transmission Roller Chains and
Sprockets; and ASME B29.4M, Double-Pitch Conveyor Roller Chains,
Attachments, and Sprockets. The new standardwas designated ASME
B29.100-2002 and was approved as an American National Standard on
April 3, 2002.
B29.3. For many years, roller chain manufacturers furnished for
specific installations an economical power transmission chain
differing only in pitch from the standardized series of
transmission roller chains that conformed to American Standard ASA
B29.1. Such practice became so common and the chains of such
universal use that in 1948 the Roller Chain Technical Committee of
the Association of Roller and Silent Chain Manufacturers, now known
as the American Chain Association, developed standards that were
submitted for adoption as American Standards.
This standard described a limited series of double-pitch power
transmission roller chains that supplements the base chain series
conforming to the standard B29.1. These chains differ from the base
chains only in pitch, which is double that of the corresponding
base chain. Supplementary information in Appendix A on speed and
power transmission ratings indicated their special usefulness for
drives operating at slow to moderate speeds, with moderate loads
and long center distances.