Shafting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: shaftingLay 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...
Rock 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...
Shafted
Furnished with a shaft or with shafts as a shafted arch...
Shafting
Shafts collectivelly a system of connected shafts for communicating motion...
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...
Countershaft
An intermediate shaft esp one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine...
Crank
A bent portion of an axle or shaft or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft by which motion is imparted to or received from it also used to change circular into reciprocating motion or reciprocating into circular motion See Bell crank...
Motor generator
The combination consisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft...
Bague
The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts...
Bolt
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult esp a short stout blunt headed arrow a quarrel an arrow or that which resembles an arrow a dart...
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