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 gear segments, eighteen in number, are made of gun iron, and the teeth are machine-cut, epicycloidal in form.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
In epicycloidal teeth the curve forming the face of the tooth is designated an epicycloid, and that forming the flank an hypocycloid.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Hence, if such cutters are required to be used upon epicycloidal teeth, the curves to be theoretically correct must be such as are due to a generating circle that will give at least parallel flanks.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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 Rose, Joshua
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