epicycloidal
Americanadjective
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Working with Pratt & Whitney, machine-tool builders in Hartford, Toolmaker Swasey sweated far into hot summer nights inventing the epicycloidal milling machine for producing true gear curves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nature of the mechanism by which this is effected in the Pratt & Whitney system of producing epicycloidal cutters will be hereafter explained in connection with cutters.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
By this means the inventor does not claim to produce wheels having an exactly equal velocity ratio, but he claims that he obtains a curve that is the nearest approximation to the proper epicycloidal curve.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
From point of division 4, step off on l four points of division, as a, b, c, d, and d will be another point in the epicycloidal curve.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
In a train of epicycloidal gearing in which the pinion or smallest wheel has radial flanks, the flanks of the teeth will become spread as the diameters of the wheels in the train increase.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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