American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 116
tch and chronometer,to effect the continuity of motion. The dia-grams, though not in exact proportion, willillustrate all the principles on which the escape-ment is founded. The first diagram is in-tended to illustrate the continuous motion.Suppose the escape wheel. A, to be loose onthe pinion… … while the vibration is being consummatedthe wheel, being dead beat, is arrested, andthe whole train would be in repose; but thespring allows the pinion to keep on in its ro-tation, thus again winding up the springconnecting the pinion with the wheel. Thus,supposing we have a dead beat, the…
Clocks and watches
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