"Slotted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the Scotch yoke seems to be of fairly recent origin, the linkage being called by a Scotsman in 1869 a "crank and slot-headed sliding rod" (fig. 41). I suppose that it is now known as a Scotch yoke because, in America at least, a "Scotch" was a slotted bar that was slipped under a collar on a string of well-drilling tools to support them while a section was being ...
— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson
... Hunter, director of a medical supply firm, reported a huge elliptical saucer flying at a low altitude in Pennsylvania. He described it as metallic, with a slotted outer rim and a rotating ring just inside. {p. 13} On top of this sighting, thousands of people at Farmington, New Mexico, watched a large formation of disks ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... spread a fold of it over the small skylight in order to mask the light in the cabin—should I be fortunate enough to obtain one—and then went forward to the forecastle to hunt for a lantern of some sort. I found the fore-scuttle not only closed, but also secured by a stout iron bar, the slotted end of which was passed over a staple and secured by a padlock. Fortunately, however, the individual who had last visited the little vessel had been too careless or too lazy to remove the key from the lock, therefore all I had to do was to turn the key, remove the padlock from the staple, ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... of February, Miss Brown brought the recitations to a close and laid her little, black record book in the desk drawer, then drew the big, slotted cardboard box toward her and smiled down at ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... parts, so that they would directly engage each other, the ingenious device has been employed of swaging a brass ring 3 in the barrel portion and a similar brass ring 4 in the ear cap portion, these two being slotted and keyed, as shown at 8, so as to prevent their turning in their respective seats. The ring 3 is provided with an external screw thread and the ring 4 with an internal screw thread, so that the receiver cap is screwed on to the barrel in the same way as ...
— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller |
