Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Walrk-Pendant. pendant brouglit into gear with wheelsconnecting to the spring-arbor. In Fig. Ptndulous- Cylinder Steam-Engine. the example, the springis wound and the handsset tlirough the stem oftlie pendant; a singleinllexible rod operateseaei mechanism. Forsetting, the stem is par-tial v retracted, and thewadi is wound by ro-tating the stem at itsnorma
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Walrk-Pendant. pendant brouglit into gear with wheelsconnecting to the spring-arbor. In Fig. Ptndulous- Cylinder Steam-Engine. the example, the springis wound and the handsset tlirough the stem oftlie pendant; a singleinllexible rod operateseaei mechanism. Forsetting, the stem is par-tial v retracted, and thewadi is wound by ro-tating the stem at itsnormal projection. Seealso Stem-WINDING W.\TCH. Pen-dentive. (Architecture.) a. Thefilling in of the span-drebs between the arch-es of a vault. b. Also between thearches under a dome. c. The portion of a groined ceiling supported and bounded by the apexof the longitudinal ami transverse vaults. In Gothicceilings of this kind the ribs of the vaults descendfiom the apex to the impost of each pendentive,where they become united. Pendu-lous-cylin-der Steam-engine. Aform of oscillating-cylinder steam-engine in whichthe cylinder is suspended so as to oscillate below itstrunnions, as seen in the illustration. The valvemay be a disk-valve in the trunnion or a,slide-valveon the .side. Pendu-lum. a. A heavy body so suspended asto vibrate ab
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