Reciprocating

Examples

• The preceding saws were of the straight, reciprocating kind. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1822 the important improvement of the reciprocating knife bar was made by Ogle, which became a characteristic feature of all subsequent successful reapers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They are divided into classes by names indicating their purpose and mode of operation, such as single, double-acting, lift or force, reciprocating or rotary, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It embodied a reciprocating saw tooth cutter _f_ sliding within double guard fingers _e_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This idea became known as the reciprocating blade. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was a great step from the reciprocating hand saw, worked painfully by one or two men, to the band saw, invented by a London mechanic, William Newbury, in 1808. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• More important, however, is the compressed air rock drill, in which a piston has the drill bit directly on its piston rod and cuts by a reciprocating action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Wilson invented the rotary hook carrying a bobbin, which took the place of the reciprocating shuttle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These were the flat cloth plate, vertical post, overhung arm, vertically reciprocating needle, and continuous thread. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Among the earlier knitting machines, the straight reciprocating type was most in evidence, and of which the Lamb machine was a popular form. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It had open guard fingers, a knife made of triangular sections, reciprocating in the guard, and a cutter-bar on a hinged frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These three ideas, the divider, the reciprocating blade, and the fingers, were all fundamental devices of the machine Cyrus McCormick was building. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Certainly not,' replied the Jew, reciprocating the grin with which Charley put the question. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He converted the reciprocating motion of the piston into a rotary motion by the adoption of the crank, and introduced the well-known parallel motion, and many other improvements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Edison elaborated this principle in two other forms--one pneumatic and one electric--the latter being in essence a reciprocating motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The rovings extended from these bobbins to a reciprocating clasp held in the left hand of the workman, and thence extended to the spindles at the end of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1822, Ogle, also of England, was the first to invent the _reciprocating_ knife-bar. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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