Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors (Volume I)

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 illustratios 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.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Cams and Their Applications
Chapter 2 : Intermittent Motions from Ratchet Gearing
Chapter 3 : Intermittent Motions from Gears and Cams
Chapter 4 : Tripping or Stop Mechanisms
Chapter 5 : Electrical Tripping Mechanisms
Chapter 6 : Reversing Mechanisms for Rotating Parts
Chapter 7 : Overload Relief Mechanisms and Automatic Safeguards
Chapter 8 : Interlocking Devices
Chapter 9 : Driving Mechanisms for Reciprocating Parts
Chapter 10 : Quick-Return Motions for Tool Slides
Chapter 11 : Speed-Changing Mechanisms
Chapter 12 : Differential Motions
Chapter 13 : Straight-Line Motions
Chapter 14 : Miscellaneous Mechanical Movements
Chapter 15 : Hydraulic Transmissions for Machine Tools
Chapter 16 : Automatic Feeding Mechanisms
Chapter 17 : Design of Automatic Feeding Mechanisms
Chapter 18 : Hopper Design for Automatic Feeding Machinery
Chapter 19 : Magazine Feeding Attachments for Machine Tools
Chapter 20 : Design of Magazine Carriers and Slides

Index