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 878
object of this coupling is to unite shafts -which are inclinedto each other in the line of direction, and which do not, therefore, admit of being rigidly con-nected, as in ordinary cases. This coupling is very commonly employed in light machinery, as insteeple clocks, for taking off the… … 2094.
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