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
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
For instance, if the lens requires to be ground down near the centre, the epicycloidal strokes must be nearly central; the tool must never overhang very much.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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 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
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