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Home Dictionary Name: wheelAbrasive wheel
Abrasive wheel, means any of the following which is, or is intended to be, power driven and which is for use in any grinding or cutting operation (i) a wheel, cylinder, disc or cone which, whether or not any other material is comprised in it, consists of abrasive particles held together by mineral, metallic or organic bonds whether natural or artificial, (ii) a mounted wheel or point and a wheel or disc with separate segments of abrasive materials; (iii) a wheel or disc made of metal, wood, cloth, felt, rubber or paper with any surface consisting wholly or partly of abrasive material and (iv) a wheel, disc or saw to any surface of which is attached rim or segments consisting diamond abrasive particles, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., para 721, Note 2, p. 563....
Ferris wheel
An amusement device consisting of a giant power driven vertically oriented steel wheel revolvable on its horizontal stationary axle and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars or open seats around its rim the seats are suspended so as to remain horizontal as the wheel rotates and depending on the size of the wheel the passengers when they reach the top may have a grand vista of the surrounding area so called after G W G Ferris American engineer who erected the first of its kind for the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893...
Crown wheel
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane called also a contrate wheel or face wheel...
Catherine wheel
Same as Rose window and Wheel window Called also Catherine wheel window...
Pelton wheel
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel consisting of a row of double cup shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity...
Side wheel
Having a paddle wheel on each side said of steam vessels as a side wheel steamer...
Chain wheel
A chain pulley or sprocket wheel...
Scape wheel
The wheel in an escapement as of a clock or a watch into the teeth of which the pallets play...
Pilot wheel
A wheel usually with radial handles projecting from the rim for traversing the saddle of a machine tool esp an automatic machine tool by hand...
Count wheel
The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes...
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