Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 816
ir smoothsurfaces exchanged for a regular series of equidistant teeth directed to the apex of the cone; so that aright line passing through the apex, if brought into contact with any part of the side, or top of a tooth,shall touch it throughout its whole breadth; consequently in any pair adapted to… … Detailed drawings of a mitre-wheel. Fig. 1997 is a section, Fig. 1998 a side view, and Fig. 1999 aface view of a mitre-wheel. This is a kind of bevel-wheel that is used when it is required to changethe direction of motion 90° without altering its angular velocity—a case which occurs very…
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