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A cycloid is the curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle rolled in a plane along a straight line. If the circle is rolled on the outside of another circle, the curve generated is called an "epicycloid"; if rolled on the...

A Practical Course in Mechanical Drawing for Individual Study and Shop ... - Page 41
by William Franklin Willard - 1910 - 128 pages
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Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in ...

United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1933 - 632 pages

...full mesh. At this point it may not be out of place to observe that an epicycloidal curve is a curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon the convex side of a fixed circle, and a hypocycloidal curve is a curve described by a point on the...

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