cone pulley

American  

noun

1. (on a lathe) a pulley consisting of a conelike arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds.

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Example Sentences

The belt in question was very soft and pliable, but a little twisted from use on a cone pulley where it had rubbed against one side.

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Upon the saw arbor is a cone pulley d, Fig.

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The diameters of pulleys e, f, and of f, g, and g, are proportioned so as to reduce the speed of the cone pulley d, down to that desirable for the carriage feed.

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At p is the pinion receiving motion from the cone pulley or driving pulley of the machine and imparting motion to the gear-wheel g, whose bearing is denoted by the dotted circle b.

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The three spindles are driven by a cone pulley having four changes of speed to suit different diameters of taps.

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