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GEAR FEED [5 records]

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Record 1 2023-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Perhaps the paramount feature uniquely characterizing the gear used in the... fisheries is the detachable codend... Instead of having the codend sewed permanently to the body of the trawl, as is usually done, a "zipper knot[, "] similar to the knot used to close feed bags[, ] is used[, ] which allows full codends to be quickly detached from the rest of the trawl.

OBS

[It can] be removed [from the trawl] and left floating at the surface until collected by a carrier.

Key term(s)
  • detachable cod-end
  • detachable cod end

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
OBS

[Il peut] être détaché [du chalut] et laissé à la surface jusqu'à ce qu'un bateau collecteur le ramasse.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

A system of gears, ratchets, and friction devices, or some combination of these parts, in the swivel head of a diamond drill, which controls the rate at which a bit is made to penetrate the rock formation being drilled. When controlled by a feed gear, the bit maintains the same penetration rate per revolution regardless of drill-stem revolutions per minute.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
CONT

L'avancement mécanique utilise un système de vis différentielles concentriques aux tiges. Les vitesses de rotation et d'avancement sont ainsi dans un rapport constant, dépendant uniquement des caractéristiques de la machine [...]

OBS

L'avancement [d'une sondeuse], nécessaire pour maintenir la pression de coupe, se fait en faisant avancer le mandrin toujours solidaire des tiges auxquelles il transmet sa rotation.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucks and Dollies (Materials Handling)
  • Animal Feed Processing Equipment
CONT

Chopped hay, green feed or silage can be put into the self-unloading box and topped off with a layer of grain and premix. Once the unloading mechanism is put into gear, the grain and roughage will be mixed as they tumble into the feed trough. These boxes come in 5. 6 m³ and 11 m³ capacities.

Key term(s)
  • self unloading box

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chariots de manutention
  • Alimentation des animaux (Matériel)
OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A machine used to square-edge waney timber and also to rip timber... It consists of a frame supporting an arbor fitted with one or more circular saws movable laterally, and equipped with feed rollers, press rollers, and transmission gear.

OBS

An edger having two circular saws is termed a double edger = two-saw edger; one with split feed-rollers permitting the simultaneously feeding of boards of different thickness, a twin edger.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Scie comportant une ou plusieurs lames d'écartement fixe ou réglable, destinée à tailler les rives d'une pièce de bois afin d'en éliminer les inégalités [...]

OBS

Une scie à déligner comportant deux lames de scie circulaires est appelée déligneuse double; une scie à déligner comportant des lames multiples est appelée déligneuse multiple.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lathe Work (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

A splined shaft used to impart, by means of a gear, feed motion to a tool carriage. It is not used during threading.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tournage sur métaux
DEF

Arbre rainuré, commandé en rotation par la boîte des pas et avances, qui assure l'avance automatique du traînard pendant les opérations de tournage à l'exception du filetage.

Spanish

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