Show CARNEGIE TECH SHOWS MARVEL OF engineering single gear shaft defies hitherto known mechanical laws law S pittsburgh ra pa A little piece of steel mechanism in 1 machinery hull ball carnegie institute of technology d eiles nil all hitherto known laws in mechanical ch engineering and demonstrated the harnessing and application of a mechanical power apparently never neter before known the be little power maker was simply etious of a cased shaft the driving i of the shaft turned by a five se power motor was speeded up to revolutions a minute the other d of the shaft was turning nt at the te of only five revolutions an hour I 1 developing power which it had bad it impossible to measure it has n tested up to the lift of twelve s all this miracle in reduction in ced ed and gain of power Is accod 1 shed in a single gear unit the new principle makes it possible to to d do away with all the complicate Ll i trains of gears in automobiles hoists air compressors rock breakers belt conveying machines elevators mechanical ch anical stokers smokers sto kers metal shearing and punching machines and all others where the main shafting or arlie Is run at high speed in its simplest form the new gear does not have a single cogwheel one end of the driving shaft la is SPIgot ed into the end of the driven shaft turning tree free in it on ball bearings instead of resting in a journal this driving or high speed shaft on I 1 its t outside circumference turns between three ehtee or tow four rollers one or two 0 of which are larger than the others these rollers roll on the inside of a steel ring slightly oft off center As the inner rollers turn on the high speed shaft the outer ring becomes tho the driving gear the difference in the diameters of the ibe parts establishes the rate of reduction in speed and increase in power |