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LEG DESIGN [14 records]

Record 1 2021-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

Leg types used for procedure design are included in the aircraft navigation database, but not normally provided on the procedure chart.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
CONT

Les types de segments de vol utilisés pour la conception des procédures sont inclus dans la base de données de navigation de l'aéronef, mais ne sont pas fournis normalement sur la carte de procédures.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Disabled Sports
  • Skiing and Snowboarding
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
CONT

Custom ski leg with knee joints - a ski leg with two knee joints was designed for an above-knee skier. One knee joint was for walking, and the other for skiing. When the leg is used for skiing, the upper knee joint is locked and the lower knee joint is used - controlled by a compression spring - as it keeps the leg in the flexed position required for skiing. With the amputee’s weight on the coil spring, the ski knee can flex as the amputee goes down the hill but will not collapse and buckle. An adjustable ankle to permit the foot to flex to keep the ski parallel to the hill when going down the slopes was also incorporated.

CONT

Martin's ski leg is an ecto-skeletal unit designed to transmit all the energy from the leg into a conventional ski boot and to take advantage of the boot's engineering. The design has a hard block ankle and no energy storage so leaning into a turn allows pressure to be exerted on the inside or outside edge of the ski.

CONT

Ski Info ... Equipment used: prosthetic ski leg, 2 skis and poles...

OBS

Designed to be attached to a stump and to fit ski bindings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports adaptés
  • Ski et surf des neiges
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
CONT

La jambe exosquelettique (creuse) avec bloc de liaison pyramidal forme aussi la jambe de ski idéale. La cheville Activankle montée sur un pied Symes pivote au même endroit que la cheville humaine. La jambe creuse rigide transfert solidement l’énergie sur la langue de la botte de ski. Le système pyramidal permet un alignement facile et l’adaptateur rotatif donnera l’angle horizontal légèrement fermé qu’exigent les skis.

CONT

La prothèse de ski s'attache au moignon et s'insère dans les fixations de ski.

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

A harness features a waist strap and leg loops that are sewn into one unit.... The benefit of leg loops is that whenever you put your weight on the equipment... that weight is taken principally on the legs rather than the back. The variety of leg loops available are countless... [but] in actual design, they are all fundamentally the same.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

Harnais d'escalade [...] tours de cuisses ouvrant totalement sans se décorder.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucks and Dollies (Materials Handling)
OBS

These dumpers rapidly empty a box by turning it over, using a 60° dump angle to ensure complete clean out of product. A straight-front leg design reduces floor space requirements, and allows for hoppers, bins and other vessels to be positioned closer to the loading point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chariots de manutention
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 5 2001-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique Furniture (Museums and Heritage)
  • Wood Furniture Manufacture
OBS

... the design for this foot was derived from the oriental design of a dragon's claw holding a ball or a pearl... It was the foot most commonly found on a cabriole leg.

Key term(s)
  • claw and ball
  • ball and claw

French

Domaine(s)
  • Meubles anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Fabrication des meubles en bois
OBS

Queen Ann Style. [...] la forme des pieds des meubles : galbés en cabriole, ils se terminent par une spatule arrondie ou club ou par une serre et une boule («claw-and-ball»), selon un modèle d'origine chinoise.

Key term(s)
  • claw and ball
  • ball-and-claw foot

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nurseries (Farming)
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

In some elevators, automatic samplers are installed in the leg to ensure proper sampling of large loads, which, with semitrailer trucks, can be over 27 tonnes. The automatic samplers are similar in design to the leg itself, but much smaller, consisting of small cups attached to a rotary chain. The cups pick up grain from the pit and deposit it on a tray, to make up the small average sample.

OBS

Mostly used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pépinières
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Dans certains silos, des échantillonneurs automatiques sont installés dans l'élévateur à godets pour assurer le prélèvement d'un échantillon plus représentatif quand il s'agit de chargements importants, comme c'est le cas pour les semi-remorques qui contiennent environ 27 tonnes. Les échantillons automatiques ressemblent à un élévateur à godets mais en miniature. La sangle est remplacée par une chaîne et les godets sont plus petits. Le fonctionnement est identique. Les godets prélèvent du grain dans la fosse et le déposent dans un plateau pour former un échantillon moyen du chargement.

OBS

Utilisé le plus souvent au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
CONT

The [cast-iron] boiler may be dry base(the firebox is beneath the fluid-backed sections), wet leg(the firebox top and sides are enclosed by fluid-backed sections), or wet base(the firebox is surrounded by fluid-backed sections, except for necessary openings).... The wet base design is easiest to adapt for combustible floor installations(applicable codes usually demand a floor temperature under the boiler no higher than 32°C(90 F), plus room temperature. A wet base steam boiler at 102°C(215 F) or water boiler at 116°C(240 F) cannot meet this requirement without floor insulation).... As with cast-iron boilers, dry base, wet leg, or wet base design may be used [for steel boilers].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)

Spanish

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Record 8 1990-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
CONT

Steel boilers are fabricated into one assembly of a given size and rating, usually by welding. The heat exchange surface past the firebox usually is an assembly of vertical, horizontal, or slanted tubes. The tubes may be firetube(flue gas inside, heated fluid outside) or watertube(fluid inside). The tubes may be in one or more passes. As with cast-iron boilers, dry base, wet leg, or wet base design may be used. The majority of small steel heating boilers are of dry base, vertical firetube design. Larger boilers usually have horizontal or slanted tubes; both firetube and watertube designs are used. A popular design for medium and large steel boilers, is the Scotch, or Scotch Marine, which is characterized by having a central fluid-backed cylindrical firebox, surrounded by firetubes in one or more passes, all within the outer shell.... Steel boiler sizes range from approximately 14. 7 kW(150 mBh) to the largest boilers made.

OBS

The boiler heats the water for circulation through the system. It may be rectangular or square (occasionally even round) and made of steel or cast iron.

OBS

Boilers may be grouped into classes based on working pressure and temperature, fuel used, shape and size [materials of construction]....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
CONT

GÉNÉRATEURS EN ACIER. Considérations sur l'utilisation de l'acier. [...] Sa grande résistance à la pression fera que ce matériau sera utilisé: -pour les générateurs à eau chaude [...], -pour les générateurs à eau surchauffée [...], -pour les générateurs à vapeur. [...] [Ils comportent:] 1. L'échangeur [...] 2. Le foyer [...] conçu pour utiliser le charbon, le fuel-oil, le gaz. [...] Les chaudières en acier peuvent être construites en un seul bloc ou comporter les éléments indépendants (généralement sectionnés).

OBS

Chaudière: Certains auteurs incluent l'air dans les types de fluide caloporteur de la chaudière. En général, on devrait plutôt dire "chaudière" lorsque le fluide caloporteur est l'eau ou la vapeur et "générateur d'air chaud", lorsque le fluide, est l'air.

OBS

générateur; chaudière: Certains auteurs semblent employer indifféremment ces termes, peu importe l'importance de l'appareil. Cependant, de façon générale, "générateur" serait réservé aux "appareils de chauffage de très grande importance"; dans d'autres cas, le terme "générateur", prendrait le sens général "d'appareil qui produit de la chaleur".

Spanish

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Record 9 1990-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
OBS

The [cast-iron] boiler may be dry base(the firebox is beneath the fluid-backed sections), wet leg(the firebox top and sides are enclosed by fluid-backed sections), or wet base(the firebox is surrounded by fluid-backed sections, except for necessary openings).... As with cast-iron boilers, dry base, wet leg, or wet base design may be used [for steel boilers]. The majority of small steel heating boilers are of dry base, vertical firetube design.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)

Spanish

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Record 10 1990-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
OBS

The [cast-iron] boiler may be dry base(the firebox is beneath the fluid-backed sections), wet leg(the firebox top and sides are enclosed by fluid-backed sections), or wet base(the firebox is surrounded by fluid-backed sections, except for necessary openings). The wet base design is easiest to adapt for combustible floor installations(applicable codes usually demand a floor temperature under the boiler no higher than 32°C(215 F) or water boiler at 116°C(240 F) cannot meet this requirement without floor insulation). As with cast-iron boilers, dry base, wet leg, or wet base design may be used [for steel boilers].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)

Spanish

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Record 11 1990-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
CONT

The [cast-iron] boiler may be dry base(the firebox is beneath the fluid-backed sections), wet leg(the firebox top and sides are enclosed by fluid-backed sections), or wet base(the firebox is surrounded by fluid-backed sections, except for necessary openings).... The wet base design is easiest to adapt for combustible floor installations(applicable codes usually demand a floor temperature under the boiler no higher than 32°C(90 F), plus room temperature. A wet base steam boiler at 102°C(215 F) or water boiler at 116°C(240 F) cannot meet this requirement without floor insulation).... As with cast-iron boilers, dry base, wet leg, or wet base design may be used [for steel boilers].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)

Spanish

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Record 12 1987-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Airport Runways and Areas
CONT

The permissible load Po for a typical undercarriage leg is obtained by using the reverse design method which consists of determining from graphs or formulas the load in terms of the characteristics of the subgrade and the pavement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pistes et aires d'aéroport

Spanish

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Record 13 1987-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction
  • Airport Runways and Areas
CONT

The "allowable load Po" of a pavement is the load on an undercarriage leg(actual or fictitious) calculated according to the design concept as being allowable at the rate of ten movements per day over ten years.

OBS

French practice.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction des voies de circulation
  • Pistes et aires d'aéroport
CONT

La "charge admissible Po" d'une chaussée est la charge sur un atterrisseur (réel ou fictif), calculée selon les règles de dimensionnement pour être admissible à raison de dix mouvements par jour pendant dix ans.

OBS

Méthode française.

Spanish

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Record 14 1986-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Interiors
CONT

The WEBER 4001 passenger seat incorporates an advanced leg and frame design developed through computer aided engineering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement intérieur des aéronefs
CONT

Le siège pour passagers WEBER 4001 possède un piètement et un cadre conçus en faisant appel aux techniques CAO.

Spanish

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