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The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism; its construction, regulation, and repair (1905)

Goodrich, Ward L · Chicago, Hazlitt & Walker · leaf 132

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pairs, accompanied bythe complaint of constant stopping and that no attempt atclosely regulating can succeed with them, although theyappear to have no visible disturbing cause. In such casesthe depthing of the escapement is generally wrong. Withproper depthing the point of the escape wheel tooth… … Fig. 38. Brocots visible escapement escaping over 90° with a small lifton the escape wheel teeth. 130 THE MODERN CLOCK. pendulum will not then have momentum enough to unlockit against the full power of the spring. If the pallets are setshallow, in order to avoid this difficulty, then, the…

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