escapement

30 teeth and two pallets

An escape wheel of 30 teeth and a pair of pallets spanning 4 and a half tooth pitches. The heavier line at each pallet is the locking face, here an arc about the arbor; the lighter one is the impulse face the tooth slides along once it is let go. The wheel is drawn where the contact puts it, not where it looks well: at this pallet angle the tooth in play sits on the lock face and the wheel is -0.0320° from it. Dragging the pallet through its whole engagement moves the wheel by 0.106° of recoil. Of the 6.0° the wheel turns each beat, 65.9% is drop and does nothing.

Motion that stopsdraggable: palletwide

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