By now blocking the turntable wheels and winding up only one of the ropes, the car body and the machine are swung around end for end.
Shoes or skids are then placed upon the track, and the wheels of the turntable are run up on them.
By pulling out the track from under both ends of the car, the whole weight is balanced on this central turntable truck, thus admitting of the car being turned, end for end, within its own length.
Power for using the turntableis applied through the cone T.
Thus, by adjusting the relative positions of the turntable and the drill standards (each of which carries two drills), either a large or a small boiler can be conveniently operated on.
The work to be drilled is carried on a turntable or work-holding table, the pivot and carrying frame of which can be traversed along a third set of guides lying between the other two and forming an angle of 45 deg.
Of course, neither they nor the turntable should touch any part of the house as they swing around.
The violin string is glued and wedged into holes in the upper and lower dowels so that the turntable will swing 3/16" above the floor.
They can be made to balance on the turntable by adding a piece of lead.
It consists of the house, turntable, and figures, the turntable being suspended on a violin string.
The ball-bearings of the turntable were the size of a man's head.
Peering through the gap between the turntable and the encircling wall, Hamerton could see the sun shining upon the upper portion of the red sandstone cliffs that enclosed the vast artificial basin.
As it neared the turntable Hamerton was able to come to some conclusion as to the nature of the self-closing material surrounding the ballonettes.
The floor of the turntable was almost as smooth and level as a billiard table.
A breeze caught it and swept it towards the edge of the turntable pit.
As the Zeppelin was being guided on to the turntable a fragment of the plugging material fluttered to the ground.
The turntable itself worked on steel rollers set in a "race", the upper bearing surface consisting of steel skeleton trestles, which in turn supported the revolving platform.
It dragged a bar of iron called a "kelly" out of the square hole in the turntable until the top of the first section of drillpipe appeared.
A huge turntable under the derrick started spinning the pipe at high speed.
This view shows the exhaust hood open and turntable lowered.
These horns were mounted on a turntable which the observer could revolve, so that the horns could be turned in the general direction of the sound.
The turntable is swivelled to right or left until the gunners, looking through the sights, which are really telescopes, see the object straight in front of them.
To commence with, the master record is placed upon a sort of turntable in a vacuum and turned round in the neighbourhood of two strips of gold-leaf strongly electrified.
The turntable is surrounded by a wall of thick armour and is covered by an iron hood or roof.
The turntablehas on its under side a large ring which nearly fits a cast-iron trough on the top of the pedestal.
Indeed around the turntable there is a gallery which forms a roof over our heads, so that it is only after mounting some iron steps on to this gallery that we are able to examine the glass part.
It consists of a large central turntable flanked on each side by a pair of broad and long tread plates which serve as feet.
When it is desired to make a turn the machine is swiveled around to the desired direction while sitting on the turntable with its feet raised clear of the ground.
The gun and its carriage are described as standing on a turntable platform pivoted on the centre of the truck, and revolving on a central "racer.
Now he was interested in a practical way, and the oil sheds, dog house, turntable and other adjuncts of this favored center of activity fascinated him more than ever.
Railway and turntableat Mary-le-Roy Chateau, France, in 1714.
They operate with equal facility in either direction as there is not a turntable in the land which would come anywhere near accommodating them.
Before the 1847 slipped from the turntable into the waiting stall, the hostlers and the wipers were at her.
It kicks the cars out, just beyond the cover of the train-shed and while it is hurrying to the turntable the cars are being hastily swept and dusted.
Then on to the turntable and the waiting stall, until ready to go out again upon the regular service or extra duty.
The portable turntable consists of two faced plates laid over the other, one of thick sheet iron, and the other of cast iron.
For engineering works a turntable plate with variable width of track has been designed, admitting of different tracks being used over the same turntable.
This operation is accomplished by means of the gear connection between the rollers of the panorama and the horses acting on the surface of the turntable to turn the same.
One or more horses are placed upon the turntable at any desired point between the panorama and the front of the stage, and are then started.
A cruel one he is to the old master there, inking the pages of his reader and carving a locomotive on his desk; and when he is twelve he has decided against all books and school and is interested only in things of the Turntable yard.
But the bearing of the meager boy and the level glance of the untamable blue eyes once more assure her that he has not been sent here from beyond Turntable to fail her at extremity.
Through the dingy panes in the corner wink the lights as did those of Turntable long ago; but they do not beckon.
