hunting tooth

hunting tooth

[′hənt·iŋ ‚tüth]
(design engineering)
An extra tooth on the larger of two gear wheels so that the total number of teeth will not be an integral multiple of the number on the smaller wheel.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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This utility was associated with the hunting tooth principle embodied as a one tooth differential gear set and the Geneva wheel.
The hunting tooth, an odd tooth added to disrupt cyclic repetition, has been used by millwrights for many years.
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