Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In machinery, a shaft from the driving-wheel communicating motion to machinery.
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Examples
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The multiphase electric motor can be directly applied to the stamp battery and ore-breaker driving-shaft and to the shaft of the amalgamating pans.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The axle of the support, h, is held in the upright of the carriage, k, which receives from a piece, l, placed on the driving-shaft, n, a slow forward motion toward the tool, and a rapid motion backward.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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If the lever, k, be afterward raised again, the spring, i, will act anew and couple the drum with the driving-shaft, so that the hammer will be lifted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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It is necessary to make the driving-shaft revolve a few times by hand in order to start the cylinders working in their proper order.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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Friction clutches are used by which the driving-shaft and the axles can be connected or disconnected at the will of the driver, so that the vehicle can stand while the motor is running; friction clutches are used also to throw in gears of different sizes to increase or decrease the speed of the vehicle, as well as to drive backward.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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To keep a practically continuous forward movement on the driving-shaft, many motors are made with four cylinders, the piston of each being connected with the crank-shaft at a different angle, and each cylinder doing a different part of the work; for example, while No. 1 cylinder is doing the work from the force of the explosion, No. 2 is compressing,
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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Others are kept cool by a revolving fan geared to the driving-shaft, which blows on the cylinders; while still others -- small motors used on motor bicycles, generally -- have wide ridges or projections on the outside of the cylinders to catch the wind as the machine rushes along.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910
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This toothed wheel was then mounted on the driving-shaft of an Elbs gravity motor and set in motion.
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