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Definition of Escape wheel
1. Noun. Gear that engages a rocking lever.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escape Wheel
Literary usage of Escape wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"The escape wheel is a crown wheel, and its teeth, on opposite sides, ... An old
form of recoil escapement, in which a crown escape wheel is used. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The improvement in a clock train, consisting of three wheels suitably fastened
on arbors carrying pinions, and arranged between the escape wheel and its ..."
3. Time Telling Through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley (1919)
"The escape wheel, therefore, wants to turn continually and if it was not ...
This action is secured by connecting the balance and the escape-wheel by means ..."
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