Over the centuries, since their invention, the wheel and axle have been adapted to a number of uses with many improvements and adaptations. A windlass was a common device, using a rope wound around a thick axle. By turning the wheel, which was often outfitted with handles spaced around its...
wheel, a circular frame of hard material that may be solid, partly solid, or spoked and that is capable of turning on anaxle. ASumerian(Erech) pictograph, dated about 3500bc, shows asledgeequipped with wheels. The idea of wheeledtransportationmay have come from the use of logs for rollers...
1. Variable track-width wheel-axle assembly for rail vehicle comprising a monolithic axle (1) carrying a pair of wheels (3) displaceable between two locked-up positions, for normal track-width and for large track-width respectively, characterised by the fact that said axle (1) is provided ...
Manual Drivetrain and Axles Specialist. Teacher Edition. Automotive Service Series. This instructor's guide contains materials for teaching the manual drive trains and axle specialist component of a competency-based instructional program f... CIM Center - Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center, Okl...
as they are attached to a fixed axle. The front wheel track measurement will only measure accurately if the vehicle is going straight, but will change dramatically if the vehicle is turning as the resulting tracks will be closer together. Consequently, the front track measurement is less reliable...
The annulling mass (7) is connected through a friction-loaded spring with the journal of the axle or the driving shaft of the wheel. The annulling mass is made as a ring of an approximately elliptical form, either half an ellipse or a whole ellipse. The mass and the spring are mounted ...
In-line or V engines mounted in front of the axle – regardless of the wheelbase –give a high front axle load, whereby the vehicle centre of gravity is pushed a long way forwards (Fig. 1.48). Good handling in side winds and good traction, especially in the winter, confirm the merits ...
A Cycle Wheel Safety Light System uses double-sided shaped A-C electro-luminescent light panels, spaced about the wheels of a bicycle. A DC battery powers the panels via a DC-AC inverter. Alternatively, an alternator mounted between the wheel axle and frame utilizes the bicycle rider's motive...
Damping is a function of tire sidewall velocity and pressure. External deflection The block uses the defined sidewall deflection directly in the effective radius calculation. Rotational Wheel Dynamics The block calculates the inertial response of the wheel subject to: Axle losses Brake and drive torque...
A wheel speed transducer for sensing the rotational speed of a wheel about an axle which fundamentally includes a housing fixed to the axle and containing therein two permanent magnets. The magnets are arranged such that an elongated pole piece commonly abuts first surfaces of each of the magnets...