Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 443
n the direction of the arrow ; and the cam-plate is also turned in toeiame diiection by the catch or hand v. This motion is gradually arrested by the enlarged or scroU formof the cam-plate, which forces out a friction-arm 6, one end of which is jointed at a to an arm of alever F^ attached to the… … MULE, SELF-ACTING. 437 plate, flic tension of the spring iticreasos the friction of the brake on the periphery of the cam-plate,wliich grachially arrests the motion of the parts in connection with the rack \V, and of necessity thespiiulles. When these parts are arrested the rock-sliaft n is turned…
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