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HAND RIM [6 records]

Record 1 2017-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)
CONT

Wheels - 24" double ball-bearing, feature handrim for easier rolling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)
OBS

Fauteuil roulant portoir [...] cercle de manœuvre par le malade, sur les roues arrière.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
  • Hospital Furniture
CONT

The hand or push rim is attached to the outside of the wheel and provides the surface against which the operator pushes with his/her hand to propel the chair. The hand rim is made of strong, light-weight material like aluminum.

Key term(s)
  • handrim
  • hand-rim

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
DEF

Cerceau fixé sur les grandes roues d'un fauteuil roulant.

CONT

Fauteuil roulant à mains-courantes. Fauteuil qui peut être propulsé et dirigé par l'occupant au moyen de cerceaux fixés sur les grandes roues. Ceux-ci sont appelés mains-courantes ou rampes.

OBS

Pluriel : mains-courantes.

Key term(s)
  • mains-courantes

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Opening and Closing Devices (Packaging)
  • Winemaking
DEF

It has a chamber into which you place the cork. A piston is adjusted so the top of the inserted cork is flush with the rim of the bottle neck. The chamber is closed by bringing the hands together, and the cork is squeezed by hand pressure.

CONT

You can’t pound the corks in the bottles with a mallet. ... What’s needed is a nifty piece of equipment called a hand corker.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Modes d'ouverture et de fermeture (Emball.)
  • Industrie vinicole
DEF

Petit appareil destiné à remplacer, dans les usages domestiques, la machine à boucher. Il est, en général, tout en bois, quelquefois partie en bois, partie en métal.

CONT

Les bouteilles doivent être bouchées au fur et à mesure à l'aide du bouche-bouteille.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cycling
DEF

One of three kinds of rim or caliper brakes whose action originates from the side of the wheel(usually the left side), using one pivot point for two caliper arms. They are activated by means of a sheathed brake cable connected at one end to the brake lever mounted on the handlebar and at the other end to one of the caliper arms. When the hand lever is squeezed the cable retracts within its sheath, pulling the right caliper toward the rim and exerting an equal and opposite force on the cable sheath which, pressing downward, forces the left caliper toward the wheel rim, in such a way as to press rubber blocks against the rim simultaneously, stopping the bicycle through pressure and friction.

CONT

... the sidepull brake has a firm feel that consumes only a little finger motion when varying the finger force to change the braking force.

CONT

With side-pull brakes you have a control cable that attaches directly to one of the caliper arms, usually on the left side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cyclisme
DEF

Une des trois catégories de freins à friction sur jante conçus avec une seule articulation et dont l'action est déployée à partir du côté de la roue. Ils sont actionnés par des manettes de freins placées sur le guidon; le câble qui relie les mâchoires aux manettes a son point d'attache sur une des deux mâchoires seulement.

Spanish

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Record 5 1987-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Household Articles - Various
CONT

[Roller-can openers] take one hand to hold the can and the other to "roll" the cutter around the rim.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Articles ménagers divers
CONT

[Les ouvre-boîtes à roulette] : il faut tenir la boîte d'une main et de l'autre faire tourner le couteau le long du pourtour de la boîte.

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

A small brass gong of Japan, with turned rim, suspended by a cord or held in the player's hand and struck with a bone mallet on its inner surface. MICD, p. 25.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

Petites gamelles japonaises en cuivre. Au Japon, on les joue suspendues à la main, à l'aide d'un petit maillet en os, soit dans le fond, soit sur les bords intérieurs, en rythmes brefs, saccadés et toujours les mêmes. LXPD p. 15.

Spanish

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