The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 21
d, throughwhich a rod, b. is passedat right angles to it, and made fast to the felloe. At the otherend of this tension-rod, which projects slightly beyond thelever, a thumb-screw is attached, by which it can be screwedup, thus turning the hub of the wheel round slightly andsimultaneously tightening… … Pig. 2.—THE ARIEL. round, tightens the connection with the break, and thus skidsthe wheel. The advantage of this mode of steering over the oldspindle and socket is that it is not liable to get set, as the.latter occasionally did, from overheating, and sometiix.es, in excessively cold weather,from…
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