Spiral wheel

Spiral wheel
Spiral Spi"ral, a. [Cf. F. spiral. See {Spire} a winding line.] 1. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring. [1913 Webster]

2. Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical. [1913 Webster]

3. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. [1913 Webster]

{Spiral gear}, or {Spiral wheel} (Mach.), a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals.

{Spiral gearing}, a kind of gearing sometimes used in light machinery, in which spiral gears, instead of bevel gears, are used to transmit motion between shafts that are not parallel.

{Spiral operculum}, an operculum whih has spiral lines of growth.

{Spiral shell}, any shell in which the whorls form a spiral or helix.

{Spiral spring}. See the Note under {Spring}, n., 4. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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