Elements of mechanism: elucidating the scientific principles of the practical construction of machines, for the use of schools, and students in mechanical engineering, with numerous specimens of modern machines, remarkable for their utility and ingenuity (1852)
Baker, T. (Thomas), d. 1871 · London, J. Weale · leaf 52
direction. IDLE WHEELS. 42. A wheel placed between two other wheels, as that on the axis c d, between those on the axes a a, b h, is termed an idle wheel, whether the axes of the wheels are inclined to one another, as in the fig., or all parallel. An idle wheel, as appears from Art. 41, does not… … connect the driving-wheel a with the wheels c and d ; of which the wheel c revolves in the same direction as a ; and the wheel d in the contrary direction. MARLBOROTJGH WHEELS. 44. When the shafts of two wheels a and b, whether parallel or inclined, are so close together that the wheels cannot be…
Mechanics · Machinery, Kinematics of · Machine-tools
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