Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 516
on which this lever rests is almost coincident with the centre of gravity of the counterweight C;and when the gun is fired the elevators roll on the platform. Consequently the fulcrum travels awayfrom the end of the weight-arm toward the end of the power-arm. Thus the resistance to the recoil,least… … the parts are seized by a self-acting clutch, which when released after the gun is loaded allows thecounterweight to bring the piece back to firing position. Moncrieffs hydro-pneumatic ship carriage, Fig. 3283, is a depression carriage, in which the force ofthe recoil is utilized to compress a…
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