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Line shaft
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(Mach.) a main shaft of considerable length, in a shop or factory, usually bearing a number of pulleys by which machines are driven, commonly by means of countershafts; - called also line, or main line.

See also: Shaft



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CSL installed two lines of powered roller conveyor, fitted with both twin lineshafts for positive acceleration and stops to singulate the product for presenting to a bar code scanner, which was located just prior to the case sealer.
The system incorporates chain driven, lineshaft and gravity roller conveyors with triple strand chain transfers being employed at the deburring stations.
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