ratchet wheel
Example Sentences
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A lever is used to operate the pinion, being inserted in a hub fast upon the same spindle that carries the pinion and the ratchet wheel.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The pawl connected to the slow-acting magnet merely serves to prevent the ratchet wheel from turning back.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
In one piece with the worm-wheel is a ratchet wheel l, and at m is a handle with a pawl that may be engaged with or disengaged from ratchet-wheel l.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Another lubricator consists of a cock or plug inserted in the neck of the oil cup, and set in revolution by a pendulum and ratchet wheel, or any other means.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.
On the pendulum he had a little ratchet wheel, R, having thirty teeth.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various
