Double Rocker

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WM2D File

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

Info

Non-Grashof double rocker linkage rocks back and forth between toggle (limit) positions with gravity force only. Note that the linkage toggles its configuration from open to crossed and vice versa at each toggle position.

Source

This Working Model file is adapted from Figure 4.16 on p.189 in Design of Machinery, 3rd ed. by Norton, R.L., McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Credits

This Working Model file was first developed by Fan (Michael) Mo.