Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 204
E. The drum is made light, inorder to have as little inertia andmomentum to overcome as pos-sible. Its circumference is onefathom. An indicator is attachedto the axle, which registers thenumber of revolutions. The auxil-iary pulley, B, is composed ofthree pulleys : one for the wire,one for the belt… … with a V-shaped score,paying out and reeling in. 202 NAVIGATION, VESSELS, MARINE APPLIANCES, ETC. being attached to its axle, the amount of wire paid out can thus beobtained. A very important feature in this machine is the accumu-lator, which is composed of spiral springs contained in two…
Mechanical movements
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