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A slider-crank linkage is a four-bar linkage with three revolute joints and one prismatic, or sliding, joint. The rotation of the crank drives the linear movement the slider, or the expansion of gases against a sliding piston in a cylinder can drive the rotation of the crank. There are two types of slider-cranks: in-line and offset. In-line
Link 1 (horizontal distance between ground joints): 4a Illustration of the limits. In kinematics, Chebyshev's linkage is a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate linear motion. It was invented by the 19th-century mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev, who studied theoretical problems in kinematic mechanisms.
A Chebyshev Translating Table Linkage, which combines together two cognate linkages: the Chebyshev Linkage and Chebyshev Lambda Linkage. In kinematics , the Chebyshev Lambda Linkage [ 1 ] is a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate straight-line motion with approximate constant velocity. [ 2 ]
The former ground link of the fusing 4-bar linkage becomes a rectilinear link that travels follows the same coupler curve. Each of these paired six-bar cognate linkages can also be converted into another cognate linkage by flipping the linkage over, and switching the roles of the rectilinear link and the ground link.
Watt's linkage consists of three bars bolted together in a chain. The chain of bars consists of two end bars and a middle bar. The middle bar is bolted at each of its ends to one of the ends of each outer bar. The two outer bars are of equal length, and are longer than the middle bar. The three bars can pivot around the two bolts.
A four-bar linkage can be constructed from any point on the two perpendicular bisectors as the fixed pivots and A and B as the moving pivots. The point P is clearly special, because it is a hinge that allows pure rotational movement of A 1 B 1 to A 2 B 2. It is called the relative displacement pole or also instant centre of rotation.
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Pantograph (four-bar, two degrees of freedom, i.e., only one pivot joint is fixed.) Crank-slider, (four-bar, one degree of freedom) Double wishbone suspension; Watt's linkage and Chebyshev linkage (linkages that approximate straight-line motion) Biological linkages; Part of Bicycle suspension; Part of fordable steps and fordable chairs