THE ESCAPE MECHANISM


-HOME
-Clockworks
...Grasshopper Clockwork
...Inertia Clockwork
.........Gear Cutting
.........Sample Gears
.........Rotary Table
.........Parts Disassembled
.........Escapement Revealed
...Simplicity Clockwork
...Gear Machine Clockwork
...Concentricity Clockwork
-Eggs
...Egg Drawing Machine
...Brown Eggs
...Green Eggs
...Fun With Trigonometry
-CNC
...The Milling Machine
...Inside the Controller Case
...Rear of Controller Case
...The Interface Board
-ProTrac Support
Here the inner escape pawl is contacting an inner escape pin at about maximum recoil.  As a pawl contacts it's pin, the escape gear recoils (clockwise), allowing the opposing pawl to fall away from it's escape pin.

The escape pins are made of 1/4" brass and the escape pawls are made of ebony.

The visible bearings are ABEC-5 roller blade bearings.

The Inertia clockwork uses 16 of these bearings.