Sentence examples for coupled axle from inspiring English sources

Three 18 inches diameter cylinders drove the centre coupled axle.

The drive would be divided between the front coupled axle for the inside cylinders and the middle coupled axle for the outside cylinders giving better weight distribution and reduced hammer blow.

Drive from all three cylinders was concentrated on the middle coupled axle whilst the outside cranks were set at 120°, with the inside crank displaced by about 7 degrees to allow for the 1 8 inclination of the inside cylinder using Gresley conjugated valve gear to derive the motion of the inside valve spindle from the two outside valve spindles.

The Gresley 3-cylinder drive arrangement continued to bring a number of practical problems, the root of which was probably the need for the inside cylinder to be steeply inclined in order to give space for the inside connecting rod to clear the leading coupled axle; at the same time, the inside valve spindle had to be parallel with the outside ones from which it derived its motion.

70035 70039 were built with roller bearings on the leading and trailing coupled axles only and plain bearings on the remaining axles, whilst 70040 70049 were built with plain bearings throughout.

The Southern Railway number followed an adaptation of the UIC classification system where "C" refers to the number of coupled driving axles – in this case three.

The shaking system consisted of two perforated disks coupled to a mobile axle, which was connected to an eccentric.

A second beam representing the two rails together is then coupled to the slab, and axle masses representing a train are added to the rail beam.

The small number of failures of axles in service, coupled with the serious consequences of derailment at high speed, imposes the need for very expensive, but ineffectual, inspections of axles for cracks.

Axle has free cash flow coupled with new products.

The mechanical transmission consists of a traction motor, a gearbox and two wheels which are coupled with each other through a wheelset axle and a brake system.