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Some Examples of Mechanisms from Everyday Life: -I
Back-Hoe -Loader (HİDROMEK)
You can see this machine in many construction sites performing
the digging or moving the dirt. The Back-Hoe part (A) is good in digging
ditches or holes in the ground. The loader part (D) picks up the rubbage
onthe ground and dumps it to a truck.
Internal Combustion Engines
The internal combustion engine is the
prime mover which gave the human kind an unthinkable movability .
A big percentage of mechanical engineers throughout the world work
on this machine in one form or another. Within the last century, the
classical engine with a centric slider-crank arrangement has reached
a perfection. Although it has not found a wide acceptance, the Wankel
engine is used in applications where the volume and the weight of
the engine is quite important.
In movie projectors the motion of the
film must be intermittent, eg. the film slide must stop momentarily
in front of the lens and quickly moved for the next slide of the film.
An arrangement of a four-bar mechanism shown is suitable for such
a usage. Point C which describes a D-like curve will engage with the
slots of the film from point g to g', and move back to position g
while it is disengaged and the film is stationary in front of the
lens.r.
Rock Chrusher
In this type of machinery, the mechanical advantage
(the ratio of Foutput/Finput) must be very high to create forces to
chrush the rocks. Mechanisms of very high mechanical advantage are
called toggle mechanisms and this action is known as the toggle
action. A good example of the application of this mechanism is
the rock crusher shown . Input force is amplified several times for
crushing rocks between the jaws.