Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 175
he travel-ing-bridge, the engine furnisliing motive-power through the necessary spur-gearing for thethree motions of the crane. This kind of crane is independent of all other motive-power ofthe works in which it is used, and requires merely to be supplied with fuel and water at someconvenient point… … Fig. 8.—Ldooiiiotive craue. the crane, being fitted with a motion which allows this radius to be varied. The hoisting isdone oy a galvanized steel-wire roiie, 1^ in. in diameter, which is wound on a specially largesteel barrel. This barrel is worked by double-purchase spur-gearing, the motion of…
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