Practical lessons on the lever escapement, its tests, errors, their detection and correction (1916)
Wilkinson, T. J. (Thomas Jessop), b. 1864 · Philadelphia, Penna., Technical publishing company · leaf 35
lance and pallet centers is controlled combinedly by theangle relating to the levers angular motion and the angle ofimpulse. Given these angles we can calculate the distance thepallet and balance centers should be apart. It has not beenthought necessary to make a theoretical draft of the roller… … Fig. 13 of freedom when passing the slot corners under normal escape-ment conditions—by which we mean that slide is present. Ourlessons, practical and theoretical, on banked to drop positionsand on the safety actions will be found much more beneficial thanany extended explanatory instruction on…
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