Straight-Line Walking Beam Eight-bar Transport Mechanism

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WM2D File

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

Info

The walking beam (in blue) pushes articles (in pink)  forward, and the material is left stationary in the return stroke of the walking beam until the next cycle. The mechanism is for moving articles with intermittent advancement. The eight-bar mechanism allows moving more then one article, as compared to a fourbar walking beam.

Source

This Working Model file is adapted from Figure P3.7 on p.150 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.