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Worm gears

Large ratios may be obtained using a form of helical gearing in which the driving wheel is in the form of a cylindrical screw, cut with a single or multistart thread and meshing at right angles with the plane of the worm wheel. Worm gearing is occasionally found in the calendar work of clocks, and commonly encountered in the reduction train of synchronous electric clocks.

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