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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
Cat-harp′ing. （Nautical.) One of the ropes by which the shrouds are drawn towards the mast below the tops, to allow the yards to swing clear when close-hauled. Iron cramps are now usually employed, still, however, retaining the name. Cat-head. （Shipbuilding.) a. An inclined timber projecting from the bow of a ship, forming a cranearm from which the bower anchor is suspended when raised from the water. The tackle used in hauling-up is called the catfall, and is hooked to the rer. The inner end of the cat-head is made fast to a beam or frame, and is termed the cat's tail. The sheaves for the cat-full run in mortises in or near the outer end of the cat-head. b. (Mining.) A miner's name for a small capstan. Cat-head Stop′per. （Nautical.) The rope or chain by which the ring of an anchor is secured to the cat-head. A device for casting it loose and thereby freeing the anchor is an anchor-tripper (which see). Cath′e-ter. A tube which is introd
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
moves at a speed of from 10 to 150 feet per minute, and has safety-ratchets which instantly lock it to the standards if the rope break. The drum on which the wire rope is wound has a spiral groove in which successive coils of the rope are kept separate. The car stops automatically at certain limits, or by hand at intermediate points. See rope-elevator. See also under the following heads:— Balance-crane.Cant-hook. Barton.Capstan. Block.Cargo-jack. Bracket-crab.Catadrome. Brake.Cat-head. Brick and mortar elevator.Cat-tackle. Check-hook. Bricklayer's hoist.Chevrette. Bucket.Chinese windlass. Cage.Claw for suspending tackle. Can-hook. Cog and round.Lift-hammer. Cotton-elevator.Lifting-apparatus. Crab.Lifting-jack. Crampoons.Lifting-screw. Crane.Loader. Cuddy.Lock. Canal Davit.Man-engine. Derrick.Masting-shears. Differential windlass.Mouline. Dolly.Movable ladder. Draft-engine.Needle. Drop.Overhead-crane. Drop-table.Parbuckle. Elevating-block.Plate-ho
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
Arch.Dean. Astel.Dike. Astyllen.Dip. Attle.Dip-head level. Auget.Down-cast, Back.Drift. Bank.Dropper. Bar.Drowned level. Barrow.Dums. Basset.Fang. Batch.Fanging. Bed.Fault. Bede.Flang. Bedway.Flookan. Bend.Floran. Blasting.Fluke. Blind level.Foge. Bonney.Gad. Bord.Gallery. Bottom-lift.Gangue. Bottoms.Ginging. Brace.Goaf. Branch.Gob. Brattice.Gobbing. Breast.Gold-mining. Brob.Gold-washer. Brood.Grain-tin. Bunch.Grapnel Burden.Griddle. Cage.Gunnie. Case.Gurnies. Cat-head.Hade. Cauf.Halvans. Caunter-lode.Hanging-side. Channeling-machine.Hard pyrites. Charger.Hard salt Cistern.Heading. Claying-bar.Hitch. Coal-boring bit.Hogger-pipe. Coal-breaker.Holing. Coal-cutting machine.Horns Coal-mining machine.Hushing. Coal-screen.Hutch. Coal-washing machine.Jamb. Coffering.Jinny-road. Coffin.Jump. Corbond. Corf. Costeening. Counter. Course. Cow. Cradle. Creaze. Creep. Cribbing. Cribble. Crop. Cross-course. Cross-cut. Cross-lode. Crow-bar.