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.
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Thus the Pratt and Whitney arrangement of cutters for epicycloidal teeth is as follows:—
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The teeth of the wheels should always be of involute and not of epicycloidal form, for the following reasons.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
These templates are in metal, and for epicycloidal teeth from 15 to a rack, and having a diametral pitch ranging from 11⁄2 to 32.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
With the compasses set to the radius of divisions 1, 2, step off on arc m the five divisions, n, o, s, t, v, and v will be a point in the epicycloidal curves.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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