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Mechanism

The document provides an overview of mechanisms, defining them as mechanical devices with various components such as cranks and links. It describes six types of mechanisms, including slider links and four-bar chains, and outlines their features and functions. Additionally, it includes a practical task involving the drawing of a slider link mechanism and methods for plotting loci generated by movement.

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Mechanism

The document provides an overview of mechanisms, defining them as mechanical devices with various components such as cranks and links. It describes six types of mechanisms, including slider links and four-bar chains, and outlines their features and functions. Additionally, it includes a practical task involving the drawing of a slider link mechanism and methods for plotting loci generated by movement.

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Mechanism

Grade 12
Definition.

• mechanical device consisting of an arrangement of cranks, pivots,


connecting rods or links, and slotted links or slides.
Six types of mechanism

• Slider link
• Slider and crank
• Four-bar chain
• Watts' quick-return mechanism
• Slotted linked and crank
• Linked crank
FEATURES OF A MECHANISM
• CONNECTING ROD or LINK: A rigid joining piece
• of a mechanism pivoted at each end.
• CRANK: A rotating or oscillating link.
• PIVOT: The join between a link and a fixed point.
• PIN-JOINT: The join between a link and a crank.
• LOCUS: The path traced by a point on a
• mechanism.
Sliding link

• A sliding link is a simple mechanism that has one end of the link
always in contact with the OY axis and the other end always in
contact with the OX axis.
Tumi falls with the ladder

• An example: Tumi climbs a ladder that is propped up against a


wall. Just before shegets to the top of the ladder, it slides down
with her. The lower end of the ladder slides out while remaining in
contact with the ground at all times, while the upper end remains
in contact with the wall, the locus of a point where Tumi is on the
ladder will generate a 'slider link’.
Task.

• Draw the slider link mechanism shown in Figure 16.


• The initial position of the ladder AB is vertically along the OY axis.
Trace the locus generated by point P as end B of the ladder slides
towards the right while remaining in contact with the OX
(horizontal) axis and end A remains in contact with the OY axis:
• AB = 97; and BP = 50
Method

METHOD:
Divide line AB, which lies on the OY axis into any number of parts.
With radius AB, strike arcs from each of the divisions along the OY axis, to cut the
OX axis.
Join the points 1, 2, 3... along the OY axis to the corresponding points 1', 2', 3'...
along the OX axis.
Plotting the locus of point P
With radius BP, strike off the distances BP along each of the lines (1,1'; 2,2'; 3,3'
...) from the OXaxis.
Trace a neat locus through each point using a French curve.
SLIDER AND CRANK MECHANISM

The slider and crank mechanism is a mechanism


that is used to convert rotary motion to linear motion,
or vice versa
Linked cranks

The linked cranks consists of cranks AB and CD


joined by rod BD.
FOUR-BAR CHAIN

A four-bar chain, also called a crank and rocker


mechanism, is a simple mechanism which consists
of two cranks AB and CD, joined by the rod BD. The
fourth link is between the two pivot points A and C.
Slotted link and crank

The slotted link and crank consists of a rod


attached to a crank, with the movement of the rod
constrained to pass through a point.

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