Walking Beam with Pick-and-Place Mechanism

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WM2D File

Software copyright © 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Info

The walking beam (in green) is used in combination with a “pick-and-place” mechanism (in red and beige). The walking beam pushes articles (in yellow)  forward, and the material is caught in the pick-and-place mechanism. The sixbar walking beam allows moving more then one article, as compared to a fourbar walking beam.

Source

This Working Model file is adapted from Figure P2.14 on p.82 in Design of Machinery, 3rd ed. by Norton, R.L., McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Credits

This Working Model file was first developed by Jie (Jeff) Yang.