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Worm gear   /wərm gɪr/   Listen
Worm gear

noun
1.
Gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion.





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... feature was the device for handling the molds; this, as before stated, was a traveler, which straddled the pier site, it having a gage of 31 ft. It carried a four-drum engine, the drums of which were actuated, either separately or together, by a worm gear so as to operate positively in lowering as well as in raising. The load was hung from four hooks, depending by double blocks and 5/8-in. wire rope from four trolleys suspended from the trusses of the traveler; ...
— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette


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