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 969
the speed of the mill to some extent. The motion thus given to the self-regu-lating wind-wheel is communicated to other machinery through the horizontal shaft K, one end ofwhich is sustained between friction-rollers and the other in a babbitt-metal bearing. If the motion 934 WINDMILLS. desired to… … fixed to the end of the shaft. The crank-pin when on its upper and lower centre must be in a lineperpendicular to the centre of the turn-table and the support-casting, upon which the mill is carriedon friction-rollers. From this crank-motion is conveyed by a pitman with a universal orball joint to…
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