cranks

“I’m going to bring a black boy here to educate,” said Beriah Green, as only a crank and an abolitionist would have dared to say.

Pins set in the shaft of a hand crank act as cams, raising the flails which then fall to the ground by gravity.

A hand-crank operated the winnowing mill for separating grain from chaff and beans from hulls.

By turning the crank at a normal pace, seeds are scattered from a spinning disk.

The operator sat on the wooden seat and turned a crank which rotated the apple fastened to a spindle.

The roller is passed over the butter in the tray by means of a hand crank, thus working the excess water to the top of the butter where it could be poured off.

Beckwith later added a hand crank.

The bed slides on a track and is run in and out from under the platen by turning a crank which has belts attached to a pulley upon its shaft.

Fitting the removable handcrank to the squared end of the hollow shaft and turning the crank clockwise, will advance the forward section of shaft through the medium of a pair of inclined collars.

By turning a crank the guard puts in operation the system of levers which apply the brake with great force; but the operation is slow.

If the gun will not remain at the elevation at which set, the crank shafts are probably not correctly assembled.

Crank the engine with the left hand if possible and stand in such a position that if the engine should kick back the crank will not cause injury.

By turning a crank, a lateral sliding door is opened, and an arrangement inside is set in motion, by which the ground cacao is turned out of the mill.

Ford was obstinate, but he was a small man with no capital, merely a crank who had hit by accident on a good idea; he would come around all right in time, they concluded.

The motor is started by a crank which is easily applied to a shaft in the rear of the carriage and the gasoline is ignited in the cylinder by electricity.

The machine was driven by a hand crank as per available documents and used the principle of the chain stitch.

Howe’s machine used the principle of lockstitch design and used a needle with an eye at the end powered by a hand crank.

hand embroidery and the operation of crank embroidery machines, which were prevalent in the middle of the 19th century, were the domain of female craftsmanship

A hand crank under the sewing table was used to guide the fabric or embroidery along the lines of the design.

Other manufacturers of crank embroidery machines besides Cornely were Singer, Lintz & Eckhardt, Schirmer, Blau & Co. and Pfaff Industriemaschinen GmbH.