The wing socket permits a motion similar to a universal joint, Fig.

He invented the universal joint, which can move in many angles.

The prime essential in a well working harmonograph is a properly constructed universal joint.

Question 1, the universal joint, had come up in the mock exam, so students were well-prepared.

The man-made universal joint has a wider range of movement, possesses greater strength, and is more perfect mechanically.

To facilitate adjustment, a small telescope furnished with cross-hairs was attached to the mirror by a universal joint.

The Cluthe Automatic Holding Pads-thepads which hold the rupture in place-arefree acting-work on a ball-bearing, universal joint.

Rearmost of all was a wooden crosspiece to which the shaft of the sledge-meter was attached through a universal joint.

The drive from the engine is transmitted through a universal joint to a short longitudinal shaft, running on ball bearings.

In the center of the compartment, on a massively braced universal joint mounting, was what I took for the repellor generator.

This makes a universal joint almost free from friction and, what is most important, prevents the pendulum from twisting on its own axis.

The universal joint for the rod is made by soldering a small U-shaped piece of metal to the end of a short metal bar.

Each flynk had a knuckle amidships, enabling it to bend freely in both directions-inmechanical engineering terms, it was just a heavy-dutyuniversal joint.

He had one eye, like a gimlet on a universal joint; he turned it this and that way without any corresponding movement of his head.

Seven plasma turrets were mounted on universal joints-enoughfirepower to gut any ship in the UNSC fleet.

They only had universal joints and portholes instead of a face bowl, at least on the early JIMs.