sheave
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As the name implies, the cables were not wrapped on a drum but passed, from the car, over a grooved sheave directly on the motor shaft, the other ends being attached to the counterweights.
From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel
The two parts of the sheave are connected by two cotter bolts.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low
Backmann projected two cylindrical cars that traveled in parallel shafts and balanced one another from opposite ends of common cables that passed over a sheave in the upperworks.
From Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 by Robert M. Vogel
The "eccentricity" or "throw" of an eccentric is the distance between C2, the centre of the shaft, and C1, the centre of the sheave.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
The centre of the eccentric sheave or wheel is placed ahead of and level with the paddle shaft axis.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the high Autumn flames afield, And what is all his golden yield To that we took, and sheaved, and bound In the green dusk that gladdened round?
From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley
Mingled arrows each one sheaved; Death's dread armoury was stored With the shafts he most abhorred; Love's light quiver groaned beneath Venom-headed darts of Death.
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
Or like a juicy and jostling shock Of bluebells sheaved in May Or wind-long fleeces on the flock A day off shearing day.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
The sheaved blocks used for the running rigging consisted of the shell, the sheaves, which revolved within the shell, and the pins which fastened them together.
From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles
