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  2. Lathe dog - Wikipedia

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    The workpiece passes through an aperture in the dog into which the work is secured by one or more setscrews or a clamp arrangement. The maximum cross sectional dimension of the workpiece is limited by the dimensions of the dog aperture. Lathe dogs are provided in straight tail or bent tail form, and may be single tail or double tail.

  3. Professional wrestling holds - Wikipedia

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    Tajiri applying a camel clutch to Rene Bonaparte. The wrestler begins the hold by standing over a face-down opponent. The wrestler reaches down to pull the opposing wrestler up slightly, sits on the opponent's back, and places both of the opponent's arms across their thighs, usually locking at least one by placing the arm in the crook of their knee. [1]

  4. Hele-Shaw clutch - Wikipedia

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    Hele-Shaw clutch, sectioned A single pair of plates of the Hele Shaw clutch Section through a stack of plates The Hele-Shaw clutch was an early form of multi-plate wet clutch , in use around 1900. It was named after its inventor, Professor Henry Selby Hele-Shaw , who was noted for his work in viscosity and flows through small gaps between ...

  5. Manual transmission - Wikipedia

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    The clutch pedal controls the pressure plate (clutch engaged – the clutch pedal is not being pressed) or not connected to the engine (clutch disengaged – the clutch pedal is being pressed down). When the engine is running and the clutch is engaged (i.e., clutch pedal up), the flywheel spins the clutch pressure plate and hence the transmission.

  6. Cone clutch - Wikipedia

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    A cone clutch serves the same purpose as a disk or plate clutch; however, instead of mating two spinning disks, the cone clutch uses two conical surfaces to transmit torque by friction. [ 1 ] The cone clutch transfers a higher torque than plate or disk clutches of the same size due to the wedging action and increased surface area.

  7. Watt's linkage - Wikipedia

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    Thus, link 1 (total distance between ground joints): + Hand-drawn diagram by James Watt (1808) in a letter to his son, describing how he arrived at the design. [ 1 ] A Watt's linkage is a type of mechanical linkage invented by James Watt in which the central moving point of the linkage is constrained to travel a nearly straight path .

  8. Spline (mechanical) - Wikipedia

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    Adjacent images in the section below show a transmission input shaft with male splines and a clutch plate with mating female splines in the center hub, where the smooth tip of the axle would be supported in a pilot bearing in the flywheel (not pictured).

  9. List of railroad truck parts - Wikipedia

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    An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.