A wooden ratio wheel with 13 metal pegs. The pegs are 3/16" h and evenly spaced in a concentric circle. The wheel has triangular teeth. Below the wheel there is a unstained wooden pinion around a turned arbor with a smaller pinion at its other end. Out of the end of the smaller pinion is a steel peg to secure wheel in the clock plate.
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Shaker Museum Component, Timepiece. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=22083. Accessed on September 30, 2024
