The grasshopper escapement, which is usually internal, is externalised and appears to drag the escape wheel around the rim of the clock.
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The escapement consists of an escape wheel shaped somewhat like a crown, with pointed teeth sticking axially out of the side, oriented horizontally.
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In the pin pallet escapement these faces are designed into the shape of the escape wheel teeth instead, eliminating the need for costly adjustments.
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The pallets in a traditional lever escapement have two angled faces, the locking face and the impulse face, which engage the escape wheel teeth.
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At the centre of oscillation, a roller on the balance staff momentarily displaces the detent, allowing one tooth of the escape wheel to pass.
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The escape wheel drops again until the entrance tooth locks on the entrance pallet now being held in place by the left banking pin via the lever.
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If the clock is moved without immobilising the pendulum, the uncontrolled swinging of the pendulum can cause the anchor pallets to collide violently with the escape wheel.
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Therefore, slight variations in the friction of the pallets and in the torque from the escape wheel are passed on to the pendulum, disturbing its motion.
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Each time the pendulum swings through its centre position, it releases one tooth of the " escape wheel " " ( g ) ".
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From the release from the entrance pallet to this point, the escape wheel will have turned through exactly one half of the 24 degree angle between two teeth.
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