shaft
111shaft house — noun : a structure erected at the top of a shaft to house hoisting machinery * * * a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft. [1870 75] * * * shaft house, a heavy framework at the top of a mine shaft, to support …
112shaft coupling — ▪ machine part in machinery, a device for providing a connection, readily broken and restored, between two adjacent rotating shafts. A coupling may provide either a rigid or a flexible connection; the flexibility may permit misalignment of… …
113shaft axis — The line consistent with the rotor shaft (mast). Only when the plane of rotation is exactly perpendicular to the shaft axis will the axis of rotation coincide with the shaft axis. See rotor disc and tip path plane …
114shaft-to-shaft coupling — A viscous coupling design in which the outer disc carrier is connected to the left hand axle shaft and the inner disc carrier to the right hand axle shaft …
115shaft alley — noun see shaft tunnel * * * Naut. an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers. Also called shaft tunnel …
116Shaft passer — A shaft passer is a hypothetical device that allows a spoked wheel to rotate despite having a shaft (such as the axle of another wheel) passing between its spokes. The device is usually mentioned as a joke between engineers, in the manner of a… …
117shaft alley — Naut. an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers. Also called shaft tunnel. * * * …
118shaft bow — noun Part of a horse harness, an arch from shaft to shaft over the horses shoulders …
119shaft distributor — A distributor whose drive shaft projects into the engine; the shaft is driven via a gearing system or a coupling …
120shaft sleeve — A sleeve which protects a shaft from erosion, corrosion, and wear at shaft seals …
