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 885
geering there is one large vertical shaft from which the minor horizontal shafts derivetheir motion. The bottom extremity of the vertical shaft is supported on a species of bearing techni-cally named a foot-step, of which Fig. 2107 represents a specimen. In this case, the. motion is… … WHRMCV-tC. which geers with the equally pitched wheel F on the horizontal shaft K. On the other extremity olthis shaft is the bevel-wheel C, which geers with a similar wheel on the vertical shaft; and throughthis last wheel motion is communicated to the equal wheel B and the geering on the right.…
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