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attached the steering-ropes or yoke-lines, which are handled by the coxswain or steersman, or pass to the drum on the axis of the steering-wheel. The yoke is principally used in rowing-boats. 6. A cross-bar from which a bell is suspended. Hildreth's rotary yoke is adapted to a round-shank bell. It contains a conical aperture into which the shank enters, the bell being secured to the yoke by a screw-threaded bolt b, to which the clapper is hinged; n is a nut, and w a washer. This devicethe bell being turned, so that the clapper may be made to strike at any point of its circumference, thus avoiding the constant wear at two opposite points, which results from the common mode of hanging, and which ultimately destroys the bell. Hildreth's rotary yoke. 7. A branching coupling-section, connecting two pipes with a single one, as the hot and cold water pipes, with a single pipe for a shower-bath. 8. A head-frame of a grain-elevator, where the belt passes over the upper drum