sheave

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Weight of transmission rope = .34 X dia.2 Breaking strength = 7,000 X dia.2 Maximum allowable tension = 200 X dia.2 Dia. smallest practicable sheave.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Company, Howard & Bullough American Machine

The wheel of a pulley is called a sheave, and by habit it has grown to be a common expression to call the block and wheel in hoisting works "the sheaves."

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

The distance from the centre of the sheave to the centre of the shaft is called the radius or eccentricity of the eccentric.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

The looped-up derrick-fall was a double wire cable, running through a heavy iron sheave which carried the hook and grappling chains.

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis

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 Williams, Archibald