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link motion

British  

noun

  1. a mechanism controlling the valves of a steam engine, consisting of a slotted link terminating in a pair of eccentrics

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The link motion of an American locomotive is shown in Figs.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The first class of apparatus has not been found so manageable, and is not in extensive use, except in that form known as the link motion.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

Other forms of link motion have been devised, but the Stephenson form has become almost universal.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The parts usually case hardened are the link motion, and other light working parts that are of wrought iron.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The head stock of a lathe—the back gear in particular—is about as hard a thing to improve as the link motion of a locomotive.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

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