| 1. | They compress gas by utilizing a piston pushed by a crank shaft.
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| 2. | UIT is employed on drive shafts and crank shafts in a number of industries.
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| 3. | The vertically standing crank shaft was fixed in the chassis.
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| 4. | The cranks had full disk arms and the crank shaft journals ran in bronze bearings.
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| 5. | He urged owners of light aircraft to check their engines for a defective crank shaft.
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| 6. | Patents granted to Corliss and others incorporated rotary valves and crank shafts in-line with the cylinders.
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| 7. | The oil pump is driven directly from the crank shaft and the waterpump by the timing belt.
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| 8. | Like the Grasshopper locomotives before them, the crank shafts on these engines were geared to the driven shafts.
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| 9. | There is very little steel used, only the crank shaft, piston / valve rods and a few other minor items.
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| 10. | One application existed in tuned racing engines where torsional crank shaft vibrations could cause damage to the cam shaft or valves.
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