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CENTER SCREW [5 records]

Record 1 2020-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Dress
CONT

Both the oral testimony and the documentary evidence introduced... by the importers show the articles to be... cap buttons of the regulation pattern required to be worn as a part of the prescribed uniform for officers and enlisted men. The sample is a small button of the screw type. The back contains holes which enable that portion of the button to be sewed on to the sides of the cap, and in the center projects the socket into which the front part of the button is screwed in place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tenue militaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Dust Removal
  • Water Pollution
DEF

... [A] unit [which] consists of a rotating solid bowl in the shape of a cylinder with a cone section on one end, and an interior rotating screw conveyer. Feed slurry, entering from the center, is held against the bowl wall by centrifugal force. Settled solids are moved by the conveyer to one end of the bowl while clarified effluent discharges at the other end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Dépoussiérage
  • Pollution de l'eau
CONT

Les machines les plus utilisées sur les boues résiduaires de traitement d'eau sont les décanteuses continues à axe horizontal. Dans ces décanteuses l'alimentation ainsi que l'évacuation du centrat et du sédiment sont continues. Elles comportent essentiellement un bol cylindro-conique ou conique à axe horizontal tournant à grande vitesse à l'intérieur duquel tourne, à une vitesse légèrement différente, une vis hélicoïdale d'extraction.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Diesel Motors
CONT

It may be necessary to bar the engine slightly using an engine barring tool... so that the center screw is exactly between two teeth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Moteurs diesel
DEF

Levier à cliquet dont on se sert pour faire tourner manuellement un moteur diesel industriel.

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveying Instruments
  • Mathematical Geography
CONT

The telescope ... can be turned around the horizontal axis ... and the vertical axis of the alidade. ... It can be fixed in each position by clamps and turned by slow motion screws.

CONT

The position and appearance of clamps and tangent screws indicate their functions.... The clamp and tangent screw for the lower plate are below those for the upper plate and those for the vertical motion are near the horizontal axle. The clamp screws turn inward toward the center of the part they stop....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'arpentage
  • Géographie mathématique
CONT

La vis de blocage (...) permet d'immobiliser provisoirement la lunette dans le plan vertical ou le plan horizontal. Pour ce qui est des théodolites cumulateurs, elle peut aussi rendre les deux plateaux solidaires.

CONT

Lorsque la pince P1 est serrée, le limbe est invariablement relié au triangle à vis calantes : il est donc fixe. Si l'on desserre la pince P, appelée aussi vis de blocage, on peut imprimer à la main une rotation rapide au cadre T1 T2 [alidade et lunette] autour de l'axe vertical (...)

OBS

On parle de "la" vis de blocage, mais tout théodolite en comporte en fait deux (et même trois, dans le cas de théodolites cumulateurs).

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
CONT

push the center screw(integral with the graduated rule)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
CONT

dévisser la vis centrale (solidaire de la réglette graduée)

OBS

combustible

Spanish

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