单词 | sun-and-planet gear |
释义 | > as lemmassun-and-planet gear sun-and-planet adj. (also sun-and-planets) Mechanics (attributive) designating an epicyclic or planetary gearing in which one or more small gears or wheels (planet gears) revolve around a larger central gear or wheel (= sun gear n., sun wheel n. 2b); of or relating to such gearing; as sun-and-planet gear, sun-and-planet motion, sun-and-planet wheel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > types of cogs or gears sun-and-planet1796 spiral gearinga1877 chainless1897 planetary1904 epicyclic1906 hypoid1926 positraction1957 1796 W. Farish Plan Course Lect. Arts & Manuf. Chem. 28 Circular motion produced..by sun and planet wheel. 1803 B. H. Latrobe 20 May in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 6 (1804) 92 The fly-wheel is driven by a sun and planet motion. 1816 R. Buchanan Propelling Vessels by Steam 20 For many years, instead of the crank, Mr. Watt used what are called sun and planet wheels, the one working round the other. 1864 Sci. Amer. 12 Mar. 173/1 Motion is imparted by a sun and planet gear. 1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools 246 The Sun-and-Planet Motion is a sort of epicyclic train with periodic action. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 4/2 The gear itself is arranged on the ‘sun-and-planet’ principle. 1904 G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Munic. Trading 9 Committees of directors who do not know the difference between a piston rod and a sun-and-planets gear. 1979 J. Muirden Sidgwick's Amateur Astronomer's Handbk. (ed. 4) xiv. 240 A purely mechanical arrangement could involve..separate drive wheel and polar axis, the two being linked either by a sector or tangent drive, or by a pair of ‘sun-and-planet’ pinions. 2002 B. Marsden Watt's Perfect Engine 115 The fifth [sc. of Watt's new methods] was his now-famous ‘sun-and-planet’ motion, and it stole the show. 2008 F. Nickols in J. Billingsley & R. Bradbeer Mechatronics & Machine Vision in Pract. 9 Motion in a Straight Line with no Rotation... This occurs when the radii of the sun and planet wheels are set to infinite radius. < as lemmas |
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