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cone pulley

American  

noun

  1. (on a lathe) a pulley consisting of a conelike arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds.


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At p is the pinion receiving motion from the cone pulley or driving pulley of the machine and imparting motion to the gear-wheel g, whose bearing is denoted by the dotted circle b.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

This shaft is driven by a pulley as shown, changes of speed being effected by having a cone pulley on the counter-shaft and one on the line of shafting.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The diameters of pulleys e, f, and of f, g, and g, are proportioned so as to reduce the speed of the cone pulley d, down to that desirable for the carriage feed.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Upon the saw arbor is a cone pulley d, Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The numbers given in table are the differences between the diameters of the adjacent steps on either cone pulley, and can be employed when there are either five or three steps on a cone.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

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