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  2. Escapement - Wikipedia

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    The escapement is driven by force from a coiled spring or a suspended weight, transmitted through the timepiece's gear train. Each swing of the pendulum or balance wheel releases a tooth of the escapement's escape wheel, allowing the clock's gear train to advance or "escape" by a fixed amount. This regular periodic advancement moves the clock's ...

  3. Anchor escapement - Wikipedia

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    The backward motion of the escape wheel during part of the cycle, called recoil, is one of the disadvantages of the anchor escapement.It results in a temporary reversal of the entire wheel train back to the driving weight with each tick of the clock, causing extra wear in the wheel train, excessive wear to the gear teeth, and inaccuracy.

  4. Riefler escapement - Wikipedia

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    The Riefler escape wheel and pallets are of a special design. There are actually two escape wheels mounted on the same shaft and two surfaces on each of the two pallet pins. The front locking wheel has forward pointing teeth rather like a dead-beat escapement, and catches on the flat surface of the pallet to lock the wheel.

  5. Deadbeat - Wikipedia

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    Deadbeat, deadbeats or dead-beat may refer to: . Deadbeat escapement, a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks; Dead-beat control, a problem in discrete control theory of finding an optimal input sequence that will bring the system output to a given setpoint in a finite number of time steps

  6. Deadbeat escapement - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Deadbeat escapement

  7. Richard Towneley - Wikipedia

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    Richard Towneley was born at Nocton Hall, in Lincolnshire, on 10 October 1629, eldest son of Charles Towneley (1600–1644) and Mary Trappes (1599–1690).. The Towneleys were prominent members of the Roman Catholic minority in Lancashire and long-time Stuart loyalists.

  8. How to deal with a deadbeat adult child - AOL

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    You've seen your cousin struggle with her son, Jerry. Lots of potential, always hot on the trail of a great job that will set him up for life, and only needs enough money to buy a good suit or get ...

  9. Marine chronometer - Wikipedia

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    A detent escapement has a strong advantage over other escapements as it needs no lubrication. An impulse from the escape wheel to the impulse roller is nearly dead-beat, meaning little sliding action needing lubrication. Chronometer escape wheels and passing springs are typically gold due to the metal's lower slide friction over brass and steel.