Each of a pair of bevelled cogwheels with teeth set at 45° and axes at right angles.
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- Even the use of a simple mitre wheel is rare.
- It has a miter wheel of very large diameter supporting the revolving blade, which is expensive to produce.
- The rotary motion of the feed rollers is derived from a stationarily mounted ring gear which has internal teeth which mesh with an intermediate drive having a trailing miter wheel gearing.
- The drums of the winch are each driven by an individual worm drive and mitre wheels from the main countershaft.
- American stone miter wheels were generally dressed to a 65° angle point versus the 95° used in Europe.