Chapter LXVI: Section 76: Shafting

Employed to convey motion from a motor to various forms of driven machinery by gearing of various kinds. See Sections 3, 11, 38, 40, and 84.

Materials employed are:--Round, square, or polygonal wrought iron or
steel bars, cast iron, wood, iron or steel tubes, planished round iron
and steel bars, &c.

=Stow’s flexible shafting.= See No. 442.

=1338. Longitudinal section of a cast-iron shaft.= These are sometimes made of a ~X~ section.

=1339. Wooden shaft= with end ferrules and iron end centres.

=1340, 1341, & 1342. End view and sections of ditto,= solid hexagonal and hollow circular.

=1343, 1344, & 1345. Arrangements of line shafting= in a machine-shop or factory, with or without overhead travelling crane.

=1346. Example of a line shaft,= showing bearings (see Section 46), couplings (see Section 16), pulleys (see Section 3), and gearing (see Sections 3, 84).

Shafts to be used as rollers are usually made hollow of wrought iron
or other metal tube, tin plate, zinc plate, or sheet iron riveted; or
sometimes, as No. 1342, of wood laggings fixed to solid polygonal
blocks or centres, either continuous or in short pieces fixed at
intervals.

See also next Section (77).