swash plate

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swash plate

(Engineering / General Engineering) Engineering a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and either imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis as in a swash plate pump or, conversely, converts reciprocating motion to rotation as in a swash plate motor Also called wobble plate

[from swash (obsolete n) an oblique figure or ornament, from aswash: see swash letter]

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wobble plate			The hydraulically propelled unit has a cable running from the foot-control pedal to an inching valve, which couples a servo to the swash plate and varies the displacement of the pump. Support equipment gone wild! I hadn't even touched the foot-control ... by Hawley, Christopher / Mech The company's technology can successfully replace the crankshaft or swash plate in engines, pumps, motors, and compressors with a mechanism that can be used in a wide range of applications to improve fuel efficiency. Business briefs by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) The seal is removed every 100 hours in order to inspect the swash plate bearings. When SMART rejections help by PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly			Sward-cutter Swarded Swardy sware swarf swarm swarm cell swarm spore swarm up Swarmspore swart Swart star Swartback swarth Swarthily swarthiness Swarthness swarthy Swartiness Swartish Swartness Swarty swarve swash swash letter swash plate swashbuckle swashbuckler swashbuckling Swasher Swashing Swashway Swashy swastika SWAT SWAT squad SWAT team swatch Swate swath Swath bank swathe Swather swathing Swatow Swatte swatter sway sway bar sway-back Sway-backed			Swarthout, Gladys swarthy Swarthy Gerbil Swartiness Swartish Swartness Swarts reaction Swartswood State Park Swarty Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience Swartz Creek United Methodist Church Swartzia madagascariensis swartzite Swarve SWAS SWASA SWASAP Swasey, Ambrose Swasey, Ambrose SWASFAA swash swash swash swash Swash buckling swash bulkhead swash letter swash mark swash plate swash plates swash plates swash-plate pump swashbuckle swashbuckle swashbuckled swashbuckler swashbuckler swashbucklers swashbuckles swashbuckling swashbuckling swashed swashed swashed Swasher swashes swashes swashes swashing swashing swashing Swashway Swashy SWASM SWASNHST SWASO SWASP Swass SWAST

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