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 879
ave their rims slightly rounded or swelled in the middle to prevent the belt slipping off—which it isapt to do when the rims of the pulleys are flat. This curious property isof great practical importance,and has obviated all those clumsy appendages formerly required to keep the belt from being… … represented in Fig. 2096. The two parts of this coupling, c and d, are arranged on the shaft b, in thesame manner as we have described under the preceding figure, a is a shaft driven by means of bevel-geer off the main shaft b, its motion being derived from the latter shaft through the coupling, c…
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