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Dustcap: any cap serving to keep dirt and contamination out of an assembly. Common over crank bolts, often plastic; Dynamo: bicycle lighting component, also known as generator; Eyelet: 1) attachment point on frame, fork, or dropout for fenders, racks, etc. 2) a hole through which a spoke nipple passes through the rim so it may attach to a spoke
Based on a folktale, the story follows a mustachioed cap-selling peddler (unnamed in the book, he is known as Pezzo in the sequel, Circus Caps for Sale) who wears his entire stock of caps on his head. When the peddler goes to sleep under a tree, a troupe of monkeys steal all the caps, except his own checked cap, and put them on.
A bottle cap or bottle top is a common closure for the top opening of a bottle. A cap is sometimes colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand of contents. Metal caps with plastic backing are used for glass bottles, sometimes wrapped in decorative foil. Metal caps are usually either steel or aluminum, [1] and of the crown cork type.
The company was organized as a Delaware corporation in 1967, [3] although some of its predecessor companies have been established for over 80 years. That includes its namesake, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, a regional carrier which Katy Industries sold to Union Pacific Corporation in 1988.
A bobbin or spool is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which yarn, thread, wire, tape or film is wound. [1] Bobbins are typically found in industrial textile machinery, [2] as well as in sewing machines, fishing reels, tape measures, film rolls, cassette tapes, within electronic and electrical equipment, and for various other ...
In machine tools, a spindle is a rotating axis of the machine, which often has a shaft at its heart. The shaft itself is called a spindle, but also, in shop-floor practice, the word often is used metonymically to refer to the entire rotary unit, including not only the shaft itself, but its bearings and anything attached to it ( chuck , etc.).
Bobrick was born to a Jewish family in Chicago on July 24, 1932. [1] His father was a storekeeper and his mother worked for the postal service. [2] In 1950 he graduated from Benton Harbor High School in Michigan. [3]
A hubcap or hub cap is a decorative disk on an automobile wheel that covers at minimum the central portion of the wheel, called the hub. [1] An automobile hubcap is used to cover the wheel hub and the wheel fasteners to reduce the accumulation of dirt and moisture.