Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lever or bar used to operate a rocking-grate or similar device.
  • noun An equalizer or equalizing-bar.
  • noun A lever or arm moving about a center through an angle of less than 360° and returning to its first position; an oscillating lever.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile the type-wheels are rotating, carrying with them the rocking-lever, and current is pulsating over both circuits.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • When the type-wheels have arrived at the proper point the rocking-lever has been carried to a position where its lower arm is directly over one of the pins on the arm extending from the platen of the press-lever.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • This is accomplished through the movements of a three-arm rocking-lever attached to the wheel-sleeve at the end of the shaft.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • As the latter moves up and down the pins play upon the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus canting it and pushing the type-wheels to the right or left, as the case may be.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • As the arm lifts upward, the pin moves along the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus causing it to cant and shift the type-wheels to the right or left, as desired.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • When the type-wheels have arrived at the proper point the rocking-lever has been carried to a position where its lower arm is directly over one of the pins on the arm extending from the platen of the press-lever.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • Meanwhile the type-wheels are rotating, carrying with them the rocking-lever, and current is pulsating over both circuits.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • As the latter moves up and down the pins play upon the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus canting it and pushing the type-wheels to the right or left, as the case may be.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • As the arm lifts upward, the pin moves along the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus causing it to cant and shift the type-wheels to the right or left, as desired.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • This is accomplished through the movements of a three-arm rocking-lever attached to the wheel-sleeve at the end of the shaft.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

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