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bedplate

[ bed-pleyt ]

noun

  1. a plate, platform, or frame supporting the lighter parts of a machine.


bedplate

/ ˈ²úÉ›»åËŒ±è±ô±ðɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bedplate1

First recorded in 1840–50; bed + plate 1
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The general arrangements of a low-pressure continuous-current town supply station are as follows:—If steam is the motive power selected, it is generated under all the best conditions of economy by a battery of boilers, and Low-pressure continuous supply. supplied to engines which are now almost invariably coupled direct, each to its own dynamo, on one common bedplate; a multipolar dynamo is most usually employed, coupled direct to an enclosed engine.

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Serving as the machine’s bedplate, the arm was shaped to accommodate the stitching of all the parts of the shoe.

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When Elias began manufacturing machines on his own, he sunk into the bedplate of each machine a brass medallion bearing his likeness.

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Here the solid metal gave way to solder and he picked at this until he discovered that a piece of sheet metal had been soldered at the edges and fastened to the bedplate.

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Around the bedplate are located the oil-cooling coils, the oil strainer, the oil reservoir and the oil pipings to the bearing.

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