Cyclopedia of mechanical engineering; a general reference work. Editor-in-chief Howard Monroe Raymond. Assisted by a corps of mechanical engineers, technical experts, and designers of the highest professional standing (1908)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Raymond, Howard Monroe · Chicago American Technical Society · leaf 386
xiliary piece G with gib endsis used. The tendency without this extra piece is shown by thedotted lines in Fig. 74. The general mechanical fault with cottered joints is that theaction of the load, especially when it constantly reverses, as inpump piston rods, always tends to work the cotter loose.… … Fig. 74. 170 MACHINE DESIGN pounds itself and its bearing surfaces out of their true shape.Instead of a collar on the rod, we often find a taper fit of tho rodin the socket; and any looseness in this case is still worse, for therod then has end play in the socket, and by its shucking backand forth…
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