The Craft and Art of Clay
... wheel is designed for making round forms of vary- ing thickness from plastic clay , but throwing can produce other forms through alteration . Use of the potter's wheel dates from about 5000 в.с. , beginning in Egypt , the Middle East ...
Novel Algorithms and Techniques in Telecommunications, Automation and Industrial Electronics
... wheels [ 1 ] . Active Castor wheels or conventional steered wheels can be used to achieve this near omni - directional mobility . B. Special wheel designs Special wheel designs are based on a concept that actives traction in one ...
The World of Physics 2nd Edition
... wheel and axle A car steering wheel provides a good example of the wheel and axle principle , fig . 7.13a . If you had no wheel on the axle and you tried to turn the axle by hand you would fail because you could not apply a strong ...
A Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels
... wheel turns , when the point K , where the straight line HEI cuts the line of centres , is within the primitive wheel , it will perhaps be said that , in the case where the wheel moves the pinion , it will be advantageous to give to ...
Physical Tests of Motor-truck Wheels
... wheel fitted with a tire ] Wheel No. Description Weight in pounds Wheel No. 1 Rear wheel , 36 by 10 inches ; wooden wheel ; 14 spokes ... 252 2 Front wheel , 36 by 5 inches ; cast- steel disk ; box rim ... 169 3 Rear wheel , 36 by 10 ...
Motor Truck Journal
... wheel truck , it had 16 leaves . The total spring thickness in the rear of the 4- wheel truck was 0.61 ft . and on the 6- wheel truck , 0.50 ft . The rear springs were 0.33 ft . wide for each truck , and 4.80 ft . long on the 4 - wheel ...
Handbook for Seaman Gunners
... wheel are grooved and tongued to the outer wheel and casing ; this sup- ports the wheel but leaves it free to revolve between them . The inside edge of the hand - wheel and sprocket - wheel have the same kind and pitch of teeth . On the ...
Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-work, and Engineering
... WHEEL , or the wheel and axle , is a kind of lever , in which a plane is moveable about an axis perpendicular to that plane , or so contrived as to have a continued motion about its fulcrum ... wheels ABCD , acting 78 AXLE AND WHEEL .
Elements of mechanism, by P. Schwamb and A.L. Merrill
... wheel , and in the notches previously made , it can be made to cut out the wheel by its rotation , the axes being pressed nearer together as the cutting goes on . Worm - wheel cutting - machines are now made where the wheel can be given ...
Irrigation Engineering
Herbert Michael Wilson. PELTON WATER - WHEELS 535 upon the wheel - buckets on the lower side of the wheel through a small nozzle , as was the old hurdy - gurdy of California mining days operated by the discharge through a hydraulic ...
State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division 4th Department
... wheel of the engine truck ; between the driving - wheel and 95 the back truck wheel , probably three feet between the wheel - base of the driver and the wheel - base of the rear truck wheel ; I mean between the cen- ters of the wheels ...
Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
... wheel , a driven wheel provided with a yielding annular surface on its side that frictionally engages the side of the driving 3. In a speed changing mechanism , a driv- ing wheel , a driven wheel with its side in fric - wheel , means ...
The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of [1929-] 1937
... wheel and circular saw . Complied 352 Guard all unguarded gears on end of twisters . Complied 353 Guard upper wheel of band saw . Complied 354 Guard circular saw and variety moulder . Complied 355 Watch cable on elevator . Guard ...
The American Exporter
... wheel , to skip any one number , for printing 3 or any number of checks , etc. , on a page at one time . Wheels ( to ... Wheel Model 126 6 Wheel No 12345 $ 12.00 15.00 Model 1305 Wheel Model 1316 Wheel No 12345 12.00 15.00 .50 ...
Ji xie gong cheng shi
... Wheel Wear and Cost . - Coming now to the actual wear of wheels , it would appear that the amount of metal removed per cubic inch of wheel should be a constant , irrespective of diameter of wheel , and that on this basis a large wheel ...
Text-book of Physics
... wheel is employed ( Fig . 120 ) . This consists of a wheel mounted on a horizontal axis , on the circumfer- ence of which are fastened buckets . The weight of the water that fills the buckets on one side makes the wheel turn . Overshot ...
Engineering Mechanics
... wheel , or common paddle wheel . The paddles are straight , and either radial , or slightly inclined toward the current , as in the illustration . The working contact in this case is of a very low order . Fig . 960 b is Poncelet's wheel ...
Transactions
... WHEELS The matter of wheels introduces a purely engineering subject once more . Today in Europe the wire wheel or the pressed - steel wheel is the rule ; wood wheels are the exception , mainly because Europe has not the right sort of ...
Engineering News
... wheels cracked at a temperature of about 225 ° The cracking of wheels on the mounta'n grades could certainly be reduced by a removal of faulty and dirty iron at the junction of wheel plates . The dirt at this junction appears to be ...
A List of Adjudicated Patents
... Wheel for carriage , 17520 . Wheel for door hanger , 422305 . Wheel for locomotive , 58447 . Wheel , harrow , Reissue 8765 . Wheel , marking , Reissue 6714 . Wheel , removing truck , 4213 . Wheel rim , 301245 . Wheel , rim for bicycle , ...