Title        : Dictionary Technical Terms

Author     : F. S. Crispin

Publisher  : Merriam and Webster Bookstore Inc.

Copyright : 1975

Recovery vehicle

Recovery vehicle - a special purpose vehicle equipped with which, hoist, or boom for recovery of vehicles.

Peristaltic pump

Peristaltic pump - a device for moving fluids by the action of multiple, equally spaced rollers, which rotate and compress a flexible tube.

Single piece milling

Single piece milling - a milling method whereby one part is held and milled in one machine cycle.

Reach Rod

Reach rod - a rod motion in a link used to transmit motion from the reversing rod to the lifting shaft.

Power Plant Theory and Design by Potter

Title        : Power Plant Theory and Design 2nd Edition

Author     : Philip J. Potter

Publisher  : Merriam and Webster Bookstore, Inc.

Copyright : 

Design of Machine Elements 4th Edition

Title        : Design of Machine Elements 4th Edition

Author     : Virgil Moring Faires

Publisher  : EDCA Publishing and Distributing Corporation

Copyright : 1969

Basic Machine Design

Title        : Basic Machine Design

Author     : Ronnie S. Alcorcon

Publisher  : Alcorcon Publisher

Copyright  : 2002

Power and Industrial Plant Engineering by Alcorcon

Title        : Power and Industrial Plant Engineering 

Author     : Ronnie S. Alcorcon

Publisher  : Alcorcon Publisher

Copyright : 2005

Open system

Open System - a system across whose boundaries both matter and energy may pass.

Meter stop

Meter stop - a valve installed in a water service for control of the flow of water to a building.

Index crank

Index crank - the crank handle of an index head used to turn the spindle.

Impact wrench

Impact wrench - a compressed air or electrically operated wrench that gives a rapid succession of sudden torques.

Grasshopper linkage

Grasshopper linkage - a straight line mechanism used in some early steam engines.

Cascade pulverizer

Cascade pulverizer - a form of tumbling pulverizer that uses large lumps to do the pulverizing.

Carnot Cycle

Carnot cycle - a hypothetical cycle consisting of four reversible processes in succession: an isothermal expansion and heat addition, an isentropic expansion, an isothermal compression and heat rejection process, and an isentropic compression

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Screws

Screw is an externally threaded fastener capable of being inserted inserted into holes in assembled parts, of mating with a performed internal thread or forming its own thread and of being tightened or released by torquing a nut. 

Spur Gears

Spur Gears have toothed elements that are straight and parallel to the shaft axis and they are used to transmit motion and power without slippage between parallel shafts.