Car wheel: alternatives and connections

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- als…

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the whee…

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a b…

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against…

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate…

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.