Taggart, William Scott · London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. · leaf 24
Fi<^.24 Fi<t^5. Rack and Pinion.—The rack and pinion is an importantelement in the gearing of textile machinery. A straight-toothed rack is used into which gears a wheel; the rackslides in guides and is attached to some part of the mechanismthat requires to be moved in a straight line at a… … Fi$.26. type. The wheel A revolves on a fixed centre in the direction ofthe arrow and by virtue of gearing with B it moves the rack for-ward as shown. If A has sixteen teeth, one revolution will movethe rack a distance equal to sixteen teeth on the rack, so thatto know the exact distance moved by…
Textile machinery
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