There was a period of time, filled only by the clicking of the pawls and the sounds of the creaking parrel and the running gear.
This cam revolves with the axle of the loom and thrusts the pawls against the disk.
A draught and tie machine controls the action of the pawls on the disks in such a way that, by the revolution of the sectors, a1 and a2, the shuttle-boxes, I.
In all the others, the pawls will have slipped out at some point of the revolution and the wheels will have returned to their normal positions.
The selector wheels at all other stations fail to reach their contact position because at some point or points in their revolution the pawls have slipped out, allowing the selector wheels to return "home.
The first impulse sent out is a long impulse and pulls up both armatures, thereby causing the pawls above and below the small ratchet wheel, shown in Fig.
Thus it is that the alternate rising and falling of the two escapement pawls permits the matrices to escape one at a time.
These, when energized, will withdraw the holding pawls from the ratchets and allow them all to return to their normal positions.
This sends current through all of the relays in such direction as to withdraw both the moving and the holding pawls from the segments and thus allow all of the segments to return to their normal positions.
A Roman attorney made me an offer of an annuity of two pawls a day on the condition that I should renounce all claims on my estate.
In fine, I will either dine by myself and pay you seven pawls a day, or I will pay you thirteen, and have both father and daughter to dine with me.
The pawls N and O should work in their slots perfectly loose.
The screw 1 in pawl lever should be adjusted so that when pawl lever is down the pawls N and O will be low enough to clear the top rails C and J (Fig.
As the pawl levers and pawls drop by their own weight entirely, it is necessary their movement should be perfectly free.
The governor-rod should be disconnected, thepawls thrown out and the pawl strings hooked over the ends.
Then turn the machine slowly by hand until the pawls on one set of valves are at their highest point of travel, then with the valves wide open adjust the drive-rods, i.
Turn the machine slowly, until the pawls are at their lowest point of travel.
I) at the point of opening of the pawls when they are "in.
The cross-heads have notches milled in the side in which the pawls engage to open or close the valve, this engagement being determined by what are called shield-plates, A (Fig.
Valves cannot be set on both sides of the machine at the same time, as the pawls will not be in the same relative position, due to the angularity of the drive-rods.
The several pairs of pawls are hung on a common shaft which receives a rocking motion from a crank driven from a worm and worm-wheel by the turbine shaft.
Three out of the six pawls at once engage with notches in the ratchet, and are held tightly in place by the pressure of the chain-ring on their rear ends.
The pawls offer no resistance to the ratchet teeth, which push them up into the semicircular recesses in the chain-ring.
The two contact points are attached to a toothed wheel in which the pawls play, and these pawls are so arranged that they drive the wheel whenever moved by their magnets; thus the primary contact is broken.
Then the magnets which operate one set of pawls come into play.
This pendulum, after starting, breaks the circuit of the magnets which hold the pawls down, as well as of the short-circuiting device.
This series of operations leaves the instruments closed and the pawls home in the toothed wheel.
Frame D carries pawls F and G, the former of which engages gear-wheel H, which drives the pinion n, Fig.
As the pawls can be moved into any of the holes in the table, the base plate B may be set at an angle, enabling the chuck to be used for taper as well as for parallel work, while the chuck has a wide range of capacity.
The feeds are put into or thrown out of action as follows:--On the same shaft or pin as the pawls G and F, is secured a tongue T, Fig.
It is placed on the upper deck, and is fitted with a drum-head for capstan bars, with pawls and pawl rim on the deck plate, the pawls A being lifted and placed on their rests B when working with the motor.
The rocker arm is provided with two pawls D, which can engage with the teeth of the ratchet wheel, so that this wheel can be rotated one way or the other.
Besides the two large pawls D, the rocker arm also carries two smaller ones E, called the triggers.
These triggers usually hold the pawls locked in such positions as not to engage with the ratchet wheel, but the pawls will be released when the triggers strike the trips F of the relay arm.
Sometimes the drum would not turn; and then the sharp clink of the pawls indicated that the rope came in.
All the same, he knew the kedge warp came in, because the pawls clinked; if they stopped, the men were beaten, and Cayman would soon strike.
When the plate, F, is turned in one direction the pawls are raised and ride loosely over the teeth, but when the plate turns in the other direction the pawls engage the ratchet teeth and carry them and also the shaft, A.
The outer ends of the pawls are received between lugs that project from the plate, F, which turns loosely on the shaft, A, and has attached to it the rope pulley, G.
The pawls are in the form of an elbow lever, and the movement of their tooth ends is limited by lugs or shoulders on the carrier, E.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
