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 582
the draft line, as relates to resistance. The connecting rod, orpitman, which drives the scythe, has tong jaws at each end, cupped to grip the ball-shaped scythe head ; also suitable bosses on the bearing for the crank pin on the forward endof the crank-shaft, swiveling the pitman so that it can… … Fig. G.—Mowiii machine. depress the points of the guard fingers, to suit the degree of closeness of cutting to thecharacter of the crop and the rougliness or smoothness of the ground. The zig-zag ribsseen on the driving-wheel face have the threefold effect of increasing traction for drivingthe…
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