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rack-and-pinion

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rack-and-pinion
1. a device for converting rotary into linear motion and vice versa, in which a gearwheel (the pinion) engages with a flat toothed bar (the rack)
2. (of a type of steering gear in motor vehicles) having a track rod with a rack along part of its length that engages with a pinion attached to the steering column


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In place of tiebars, the horizontal shuttle runs on guide rails with a rack-and-pinion synchronizer to ensure platen parallelism.
Powered by Bayne's Thinline rack-and-pinion rotary actuator for greater lift capacity, lower operating pressures
 
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