Crown wheel - Crown wheel

Japanese: 冠車 - かんむりぐるま
Crown wheel - Crown wheel

… The verge escapement would remain the only restraining mechanism for clocks for about 400 years, until the age of technological innovation in the mid-17th century. The structure of this escapement is simple, consisting of a crown wheel with saw-like teeth, an axle with two square plates that alternately mesh with the teeth, and a foliot balance attached to the top end of the axle and rotating back and forth. Later, the foliot balance was replaced by a circular balance wheel and hairspring, and a mainspring was used instead of a weight, and the escapement still survives into the age of pocket clocks. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "crown carts" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… バージ脱進機は17世紀半ばの時計技術革新時代が到来するまで,約400年にわたる長い年月にわたって時計の唯一の抑制機構として生き続ける。この脱進機の構造は簡単で,のこぎりのような歯をもつ冠車(かんむりぐるま)と,その歯に交互にかみ合う2枚の角板のついた軸および軸の上端に取り付けられて往復回転運動をする棒てんぷとである。のちに,棒てんぷに代わって円形のはずみ車であるてん輪やひげぜんまいが,重錘の代りにぜんまいが使われるようになって,提げ時計の時代にもまだ生き残るのである。…

※「冠車」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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