Rock Shaft - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rock shaftRock shaft
A shaft that oscillates on its journals instead of revolving usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion as in the valve gear of some steam engines called also rocker rocking shaft and way shaft...
Lay shaft
A secondary shaft as in a sliding change gear for an automobile a cam shaft operated by a two to one gear in an internal combustion engine It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine as in some marine engines a shaft driven by a small auxiliary engine for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion...
Shafted
Furnished with a shaft or with shafts as a shafted arch...
Shafting
Shafts collectivelly a system of connected shafts for communicating motion...
Deep Rock doctrine
Deep Rock doctrine [from Deep Rock, a debtor corporation found to have been used for fraudulent transfers to its parent corporation in the Supreme Court case Taylor v. Standard Gas and Electric Co. (Deep Rock), 306 U.S. 307(1939)] : a doctrine holding that the claim of a stockholder and esp. a stockholder with controlling interest who makes a loan to his or her own corporation will be subordinated to the claims of outside creditors if the corporation is deemed undercapitalized ...
Bed rock
The solid rock underlying superficial formations Also Fig...
Rocking
Having a swaying rolling or back and forth movement used for rocking...
Rocking chair
A chair mounted on rockers in which one may rock...
Rocking stone
A stone often of great size and weight resting upon another stone and so exactly poised that it can be rocked or slightly moved with but little force...
Cabling
The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds or rounded moldings which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft...
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