"Epicycloidal wheel, a wheel or ring fixed to a framework, toothed on its inner side, and having in gear with it another toothed wheel, of half the diameter of the first, fitted so as to revolve about the center of the latter. It is used for converting circular into alternate motion, or alternate into circular." -Whitney, 1911

Epicycloidal Wheel

"Epicycloidal wheel, a wheel or ring fixed to a framework, toothed on its inner side, and having in…