emery wheel
noun
Origin of emery wheel
First recorded in 1850–55
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In this device the emery-wheel is driven by belt power as follows.
It is manufactured into wheels, in structure like the emery-wheel, and serves the same purpose.
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The emery-wheel and gear pinion d are fast together, and a pin passes through and holds g and h together.
On the end of the emery-wheel spindle is a feed lever, by means of which the emery-wheel may be fed along the lathe centre.
Now an emery-wheel will take a cut whose fineness is simply limited by the wear of the wheel in the length of the cut.
emery wheel
noun
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