Definition of Disk clutch

1. Noun. A friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks.

Generic synonyms: Friction Clutch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disk Clutch

disjunctivist
disjunctivists
disjunctor
disjunctors
disjuncts
disjuncture
disjunctures
disjune
disjunes
disk
disk-jockey
disk access
disk brake
disk cache
disk clutch (current term)
disk controller
disk disease
disk drive
disk drives
disk error
disk file
disk harrow
disk image
disk images
disk jockey
disk kidney
disk operating system
disk overhead
disk pack

Literary usage of Disk clutch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"The disk clutch—see chart 20. The disk clutch (formerly termed multiple disk), ... To illustrate the principle of the disk clutch, place a silver dollar ..."

2. Mechanisms and Mechanical Movements: A Treatise on Different Types of by Franklin Day Jones (1918)
"Pneumatically-operated Multiple-disk Clutch is admitted back of the ... Multiple-disk Clutch equipped with Brake. — It is sometimes necessary to start and ..."

3. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Operation and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1917)
"If a multiple-disk clutch does not release properly it is because the ... The plates of a multiple-disk clutch should be free from roughness and the ..."

4. Motor Vehicle Engineering: The Chassis by Ethelbert Favary (1922)
"There are various types of clutches on the market, the most popular being the multiple dry disk and the dry plate (single disk) clutch; the cone clutch is ..."

5. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"What attention does a multiple disk clutch generally need when it slips? • 515. ... What will be the result if a disk clutch is allowed to slip? .518. ..."

6. Modern Shop Practice: A General Reference Work by Howard Monroe Raymond, American Technical Society (1917)
"The construction of the three- plate disk clutch does not differ radically from one maker to another. Three fingers are used to clutch and declutch ..."

7. Gasoline Automobiles by James Ambrose Moyer (1921)
"Diagram of disk clutch. When pressure on the clutch foot pedal is removed, ... A section through a disk clutch or what is commonly called a multiple disk ..."

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