clocks and from six to eightteeth in a regulator. The springs should exert a pressureon the great wheel of just a little less than the pull of theweight on the barrel; they will then be compressed all thetime the weight is in action, and the stops will then transmitthe power from the large ratchet… … Fig. 85 teeth cut in the reverse direction from those of the largerone, is fast to the end of the barrel. A click, called thewinding click, on the larger ratchet acts in the teeth of thesmaller one during the winding, holding the two ratchetstogether at all other times. A longer click, called the…
Clocks and watches
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