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à carré

English translation: square fit

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French term or phrase:à carré
English translation:square fit
Entered by: Jessica Crockett

13:56 Oct 9, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Patents / clockwork
French term or phrase: à carré
The term appears in the description of a clockwork patent. The full paragraph is:

Le tambour et le couvercle servent généralement de pivotement à l'arbre de barillet afin de stabiliser ce dernier. Un rochet est monté solidaire de l'arbre de barillet, généralement à carré. Il est entraîné par un dispositif de remontage, manual ou automatique, pour fair pivoter l'arbre et armer le ressort de barillet.
Jessica Crockett
United States
Local time: 04:33
square fit
Explanation:
i.e. the shaft, which is presumably round, is machined square where this thing fits on, and the thing has a correspondinly square hole in the middle. Other attachments could be triangular or other multiple plane facets, or a toothed (splined) engagement.

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Note added at 40 mins (2008-10-09 14:36:43 GMT)
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It is also possible that "à carré" means "directly" (or "carrément" in the vernacular!), given that in what follows it is possible that "à carré" is in opposition to " un rouage "démultiplicateur" ou "réducteur"

Si l'on faisait agir la roue de palier de la masse oscillante, le segment denté ou le cliquet directement sur le rochet fixé " à carré " sur l'arbre de barillet, le ressort de barillet opposerait à la masse oscillante une résistance beaucoup trop grande et le remontage ne s'opérerait pas.
On intercale donc, entre la masse oscillante et le rochet, un dispositif constitué généralement par un rouage "démultiplicateur" ou "réducteur".
http://www.horlogerie-suisse.com/Complications/Chap1.htm

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2square fit
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1at right angles?
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at right angles?


Explanation:
a complete guess, would need to be backed up by somebody else

Jane RM
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square fit


Explanation:
i.e. the shaft, which is presumably round, is machined square where this thing fits on, and the thing has a correspondinly square hole in the middle. Other attachments could be triangular or other multiple plane facets, or a toothed (splined) engagement.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 40 mins (2008-10-09 14:36:43 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

It is also possible that "à carré" means "directly" (or "carrément" in the vernacular!), given that in what follows it is possible that "à carré" is in opposition to " un rouage "démultiplicateur" ou "réducteur"

Si l'on faisait agir la roue de palier de la masse oscillante, le segment denté ou le cliquet directement sur le rochet fixé " à carré " sur l'arbre de barillet, le ressort de barillet opposerait à la masse oscillante une résistance beaucoup trop grande et le remontage ne s'opérerait pas.
On intercale donc, entre la masse oscillante et le rochet, un dispositif constitué généralement par un rouage "démultiplicateur" ou "réducteur".
http://www.horlogerie-suisse.com/Complications/Chap1.htm



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