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2,000 mechanisms and mechanical devices at your fingertips!

For the technically curious to machinery, mechanisms, and device designers, this classic provides all sorts of well-illustrated topics from controls systems to robotics and nanotechnology.

Key Features

• A quick reference sourcebook
• Tutorials included for added understanding
• Drawings and descriptions of time-tested components, mechanisms and devices
• Save time researching patents
• Drawings and descriptions of more than 2000 different mechanisms and mechanical devices

This boopk is for engineers and technicians to inventors in professional design shops to the classrooms, designers and students alike will find nuggets of design detail for use in a wide range of applications

The Author

Neil Sclater was an engineer in the military/aerospace industry before turning to editing and writing professionally on electromechanical and electronic subjects.

Table Of Contents

• Chapter 1: Motion Control Systems
• Chapter 2: Robot Mechanisms
• Chapter 3: Parts-Handling Mechanisms
• Chapter 4: Reciprocating & General Purpose Mechanisms
• Chapter 5: Special-Purpose Mechanisms
• Chapter 6: Spring, Bellow, Flexure, Screw, & Ball Devices
• Chapter 7: Cam, Toggle, Chain, & Belt Mechanisms
• Chapter 8: Geared Systems & Variable-Speed Mechanisms
• Chapter 9: Coupling, Clutching, & Braking Devices
• Chapter 10: Torque-Limiting, Tensioning, & Governing Devices
• Chapter 11: Pneumatic & Hydraulic Machine & Mechanism Control
• Chapter 12: Fastening, Latching, Clamping, & Chucking Devices
• Chapter 13: Key Equations & Charts for Designing Mechanisms
• Chapter 14: New Directions in Machine Design

Code No. 005787, 512 pages, ISBN 0071467610, $195.00

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