Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors (Volume 3)

Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design.

• The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail.
• Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest.
• The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice.
• Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more.

Third Volume of Ingenious Mechanisms

Chapter 1 : Cam Applications and Special Cam Designs
Chapter 2 : Intermittent Motions from Gears and Cams
Chapter 3 : Intermittent Motions from Ratchet and Geneva Mechanisms
Chapter 4 : Overload, Tripping, and Stop Mechanisms
Chapter 5 : Locking, Clamping, and Locating Devices
Chapter 6 : Reversing Mechanisms of Special Design
Chapter 7 : Reciprocating Motions Derived from Cams, Gears, and Levers
Chapter 8 : Crank Actuated Reciprocating Mechanisms
Chapter 9 : Variable Stroke Reciprocating Mechanisms
Chapter 10 : Mechanisms Which Provide Oscillating Motion
Chapter 11 : Mechanisms Providing Combined Rotary and Linear Motions
Chapter 12 : Speed Changing Mechanisms
Chapter 13 : Speed Regulating Mechanisms
Chapter 14 : Feed Regulating, Shifting, and Stopping Mechanisms
Chapter 15 : Automatic Work Feeding and Transfer Mechanisms
Chapter 16 : Feeding and Ejecting Mechanisms for Power Presses
Chapter 17 : Hoppers and Hopper Selector Mechanisms for Automatic Machines
Chapter 18 : Miscellaneous Mechanisms

Index