A disconnecting paddle engine is one in which the paddles may be driven separately or together.
Disconnecting paddle engines are always fitted with loose eccentrics, such engines being used for steam tugs and ferry boats, where quickness of turning and of reversing is of great importance.
The place where the [Illustration: Voltammeter in a Watch Case] indicator comes to rest after disconnecting the current is marked zero.
Each strip was screwed to a stake in the ground so that by disconnecting two of them the other two could be used as hinges and the tower could be tipped over and lowered to the ground, as, for instance, when the windmill needed oiling.
Scouler gives reasons against disconnecting this branch of the Tsihaili from the Wakash dialects of Quadra and Vancouver's Island, with which he shows that they have at least the following words in common.
Gesenius has given reasons for considering the Chaldees to have been other than a Semitic population: thus either disconnecting the Babylonians from them, or else both from the Phoenicians and Hebrews.
There are two methods of disconnecting the cells employing link connectors.
An automatic circuit-breaker disconnecting all wires of the circuit may serve as both switch and cut-out.
With motors an automatic circuit breaker, disconnecting all wires of the circuit, may serve as both switch and cut-out.
All unconscious of a watcher, Jack was cautiously engaged in disconnectingthe wires switched on to an alarm in the doctor's room above, when Cyril, unable to contain his feelings any longer, stepped forward.
The house connection drain adopted in Monterrey, with the disconnecting trap, is very much like one which the writer has seen introduced with very bad result.
This is accomplished bydisconnecting R{4} from the 50 ohm tap and connecting it to the 5 ohm tap, when the current through the vibrator will be from .
This can be done by disconnecting one of the pressure leads from the binding post of one movement.
The sounder may be tested out by disconnecting the wires from the instrument and placing the bottom of the flash light on one binding post and the cord on the other.
A small regulating gas cock can be attached to the lower end of the piping, and if this is rigidly fastened to the wall, or casing, the connecting and disconnecting of the rubber tubing will not disturb the piping in any way.
A view, however, different from these, and one disconnecting the Lowland Scotch from the English and Anglo-Saxon equally, is what may be called the Pict doctrine.
No evidence has been adduced in favour ofdisconnecting Saxon Essex from Anglian Suffolk, nor yet for connecting it with Sussex and Wessex.
In the bow is an air-tight compartment with an opening in the bottom through which a diver can emerge and work on wreckage, or laying and disconnecting mines.
In using this coupling the brakeman did not have to step into the dangerous position between the cars, either for making the coupling, or disconnecting the car.
Just before the installation of relay boards in New York City, the average disconnecting time was over seventeen seconds.
On the completion of an entire relay equipment, the average disconnecting time was found to be under three seconds.
The operator performs no work in disconnecting the subscribers, that being automatically taken care of when they hang up their receivers at the close of the conversation.
These are circuits over which long-distance operators instruct each other as to connecting and disconnecting lines, the routing of calls, and the making of appointments.
Remove gear shifter rod by disconnecting at hand shifter lever and at transmission gear shifter lever.
Where space necessitates the use of a short shaft, access to the windings may be had by disconnectingsome of the coils and lifting the upper half of the armature.
A six phase winding can be made out of a three phase winding by disconnecting the three phases from each other, uniting their middle points at a common junction, as shown by diagram fig.
This simple principle is constantly applied by us in connecting and disconnecting phenomena.
Every morning, as before mentioned, this young officer went out alone to perform the dangerous work of disconnecting the mines, so that the inhabitants of the town might go out and in and move about during the day-time in safety.
The switch is necessary for entirely disconnecting the motor when not in use, and the cut out to protect the motor from excessive currents, or careless handling when starting.
An automatic circuit breaker disconnecting all wires of the circuit, may, however, serve as both switch and cut out.
Throwing off the belt and disconnecting the wires, he spun the armature around by hand.
Upon disconnecting the battery wires and holding a tuning-fork giving three hundred and twenty-six vibrations per second to the base of the sounder, the vibrations over the wire made the frog contract nearly every time.
The soilpipe should terminate at its lower end in a properly ventilating disconnecting trap, so that a current of air would be constantly maintained through the pipe.
The fault may also be temporarily repaired by soldering the adjacent commutator segments together without disconnecting the coil.
The equalizer is connected direct to the positive brushes of all the dynamos, a three pole switch being fitted for disconnecting it from the circuit when the machine to which it is connected is not working.
The polarity may be reversed without disconnecting or changing the wire.
The use is threefold: 1, it prevents the arrester being subjected continually to the line voltage; 2, acts as a disconnecting switch to disconnect the arrester from the line for repairs, etc.
Disconnecting switches are used primarily for isolating apparatus from the circuit for purposes of inspection and repair; also for sectionalizing feeders.
In construction, it is in effect two single throw, single pole disconnecting switches with the hinge jaws connected together and mounted on the same insulator.
In connection with lightning arrester installations, disconnecting switches are particularly useful, providing a simple and effective means for isolating the arresters while cleaning and inspecting.
Each of the upper contacts a and b of the disconnecting switch is connected respectively through resistance R2 and R1 to one main in each phase at aa and bb.
This type of disconnecting switch is intended for wall mounting.
B and D are connected to lower spring contacts 2 and 1 respectively, of the small disconnecting switch.
The coils~ are insulated according to the standard practice for disconnecting switches, the insulators being mounted on wooden pins supported by a wooden base.
I would like to tell you just what you people have done to me by disconnecting the elevator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disconnecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
