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  2. Drum motor - Wikipedia

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    Drum Motor with Planetary Gear Drum Motor With Helical Spur Gear. The drum motor concept was first recorded in 1928, but it was not used until the early 1950s, when it was first produced specifically for conveyor belt applications. The goal was to produce a compact, totally enclosed single component drive unit with high efficiency and lower ...

  3. Roller coaster wheel assembly - Wikipedia

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    Wooden roller coasters also utilize the interior side friction orientation. On inverted roller coasters, such as those produced by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, the wheel assemblies are typically in the same configurations, despite the cars being positioned below the track. These wheel assemblies typically feature some form of cover ...

  4. Road roller - Wikipedia

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    Caterpillar soil compactor equipped with padfoot drum, being used to compact the ground before placing concrete Antique "Kemna" steamroller. A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller [1]) is a compactor-type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations. [1]

  5. Germans worried about economic malaise ahead of election, survey

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    Most Germans are worried about the economy and high prices as Europe's biggest economy, once the region's economic engine, now contracts, a survey showed on Monday ahead of a February 23 election.

  6. Conveyor belt - Wikipedia

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    Other important components of the belt conveying system apart from the pulleys and idler rollers include the drive arrangement of reducer gear boxes, drive motors, and associated couplings. scrapers to clean the belt, chutes for controlling the discharge direction, skirts for containing the discharge on the receiving belt, take up assembly for ...

  7. Roll bender - Wikipedia

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    Roll bender machine. A roll bender is a mechanical jig having three rollers used to bend a metal bar into a circular arc. The rollers freely rotate about three parallel axes, which are arranged with uniform horizontal spacing.

  8. Drawworks - Wikipedia

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    A drawworks is the primary hoisting machinery component of a rotary drilling rig.Its main function is to provide a means of raising and lowering the traveling block.The wire-rope drill line winds on the drawworks drum and over the crown block to the traveling block, allowing the drill string to be moved up and down as the drum turns.

  9. Bird - Wikipedia

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    Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (Latin:), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.