TABLE OF CONTENTS BY
HEARD K. BAUMEISTER Senior Engineer, Retired, International Business Machines Corporation.
ANTONIO F. BALDO Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, The City College, The City University of New York.
GEORGE W. MICHALEC Consulting Engineer. Formerly Professor and Dean of Engineering and Science, Stevens Institute of Technology.
VITTORIO (RINO) CASTELLI Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Corp.
MICHAEL J. WASHO Engineering Associate, Eastman Kodak Company, Kodak Park, Engineering Division.
JOHN W. WOOD, JR. Applications Specialist, Fluidtec Engineered Products, Coltec Industries.
HELMUT THIELSCH President, Thielsch Engineering Associates.
C. H. BERRY Late Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, Harvard University.
by Heard K. Baumeister, Amended by Staff
REFERENCES: Beggs, Mechanism, McGraw-Hill. Hrones and Nelson, Analysis of the Four Bag Linkage, Wiley. Jones, Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors, 4 vols., Industrial Press. Moliam, The Design of Cam Mechanisms and Linkages, Elsevier. Chironis, Gear Design and Application, McGraw-Hill.
NOTE: The reader is referred to the current and near-past professional literature for extensive material on linkage mechanisms. The vast number of combinations thereof has led to the development of computer software programs to aid in the design of specific linkages.
Definition A mechanism is that part of a machine which contains two or more pieces so arranged that the motion of one compels the motion of the others, all in a fashion prescribed by the nature of the combination.
Links may be of any form so long as they do not interfere with the desired motion. The simplest form is...
