citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message chain belt company was a company that manufactured chain belts that replace the leather belting used to drive agricultural equipment at the time . the company was established in milwaukee wisconsin by inventor christopher w. levalley who also went by c.w. levalley and two foundry operators that provided him with 11 000.00 in starting capital 1 f.w. sivyer and w.a. draves . 2 it was incorporated on february 20 1892 . 3 the company applied the concept of chain belts on farm machinery to construction machinery and conveying equipment . its building was formerly owned by alonzo pawling and henry harnischfeger of pawling & harnischfeger 1 which eventually became harnischfeger corporation . in the 1890s the company manufactured chain driven material handling conveyors and bucket elevators for milwaukee breweries such as the joseph schlitz brewing company . by 1894 the company began to develop international markets exporting chains to europe and opening a sales office in england . by 1913 annual sales reached 1 million . at that time the company s products were organized into three major divisions chain products for power transmission ; chain driven construction machinery ; and chain powered bulk conveying equipment . in 1914 it introduced the rex brand name which was first used on a chain driven concrete mixer . it soon became a widely recognized trademark . in 1941 it won the combined army and navy award for excellence in war production . 4 by 1943 it was manufacturing rex chain rex concrete mixers rex sprockets rex traveling water screens rex elevators and rex conveyors and was working on conveyor for chemicals . 5 by 1944 it was producing rifles howitzers anti aircraft guns rifles tank turrets ammunition hoists for navy vessels and turrets tracks and gunshields for an armored vehicle called an alligator . 6 7 by 1959 its business was involved in four distinct categories construction machinery heavy bulk material handling systems mechanical power transmission sanitation and industrial waste treatment equipment . 8 9 in 1964 the company changed its name to rex chainbelt inc. nordberg manufacturing company was acquired in 1970 and in 1973 the company name changed to rexnord inc. 10 references edit a b https news.google.com newspapers nid 1499 & dat 19200523 & id yo0waaaaibaj & sjid myeeaaaaibaj & pg 4763 4882607 senior pltw student discover the menomonee valley . rexnord corporation company profile information business description history background information on rexnord corporation . https news.google.com newspapers nid 1368 & dat 19420919 & id ie1qaaaaibaj & sjid kw0eaaaaibaj & pg 3375 6296667 chain belt company . sewage works journal . 15 5 990 993 . 1 january 1943 . doi 10.2307 25029662 inactive 2016 08 21 . jstor 25029662 . https news.google.com newspapers nid 1499 & dat 19441217 & id n 8zaaaaibaj & sjid himeaaaaibaj & pg 1890 358886 pittsburgh post gazette google news archive search . https news.google.com newspapers nid 1368 & dat 19590813 & id ysgvaaaaibaj & sjid 2g8eaaaaibaj & pg 3781 1109774 st. petersburg times google news archive search . chain belt company rex chain belt rexnord rexworks rexcon llc 1891 current historical construction equipment association . v t e major companies based in milwaukee allen bradley a. o. smith brady corporation harley davidson johnson controls joy global kohl s koss magnetek manpowergroup marcus corporation miller brewing company northwestern mutual quad graphics rockwell automation briggs & stratton former a. f. gallun & sons blackhawk chain belt company john pritzlaff hardware company journal media group marshall & ilsley midwest airlines nordberg manufacturing company pfister & vogel retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chain belt company & oldid 744481860 categories companies based in milwaukeehidden categories pages with dois inactive since 2016articles needing additional references from july 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 14 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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