Crank

Offset , also offset or offset design describes a short offset on a component. The term has the same root as "Krümmen" and is used in different areas of construction and craft:

• in tool making : folding pliers , wrenches
• in mechanical engineering: crankshaft
• at a bell yoke
• on a turntable tonearm
• in architecture: see cranking
• in furniture construction: see cranking (furniture construction)
• in road construction: see bend
• in organ building : see organ pipe

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  Quadruple (above) and single (below) cranked crankshaft

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  Cranked gable of the Stroganov Palace in St. Petersburg

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  Record player with cranked tonearm

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  Cranked bakery pallet

Web links

• Goiter, from the main words goiter. , Entry in: JG Krünitz: Oekonomische Encyklopädie , Online-Reprodigitalisierung, Uni Trier
• Kröpf , entry in: The large art dictionary by PW Hartmann, BeyArs.com
• Crank of a pickup on the tonearm (including graphics)