Book Description
: A one-stop guide for ready-to-use mechanical component designs.
Describes and illustrates 2501 mechanisms and mechanical devices.
Shows how these components combine successfully with electrical
hydraulic, pneumatic, optical, thermal, or photoelectric devices.
Synopsis
This work provides an encyclopaedic collection of drawing and
articles on mechanisms and mechanical devices and their practical
application in modern products, machines and systems. This
complete sourcebook contains 2501 drawings in descriptive articles
and extensive pictorial directories. This reference explains how
various components work in machine tools, production and process
plants, aircraft, automotive and construction equipment,
instruments and consumer goods. This new edition also features
more information on electromechanical devices.
From the Inside Flap
The only reference of its kind, this sourcebook contains drawings
and descriptions of more than 2000 different mechanisms and
mechanical devices that have proven themselves in modern products,
machines, and systems. This encyclopedic guide offers:
*An extensive pictorial directory of time-tested components,
mechanisms, and devices that have applications in new designs and
modifications
*Illustrated technical articles summarizing important, expanding
fields in mechanical, electromechanical, and mechatronic design
and engineering
*A source of historical information about mechanical components
and devices that have participated in design solutions in the past
and can be recycled for new designs, or will offer ideas that will
inspire original concepts. Whatever mechanical, electromechanical,
or mechatronic device, product, or system you are designing or
improving—motion-control components, appliances, machine tools,
or spacecraft—you will find relevant illustrations and text in
this book. Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook is a must
addition to your personal technical library.
*Provides an introduction to or refresher on the design and
function of classical mechanical elements including bearings,
belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears,
genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and
switches
*Key equations and charts for designing mechanisms
*Features a complete index, making it easy to find references to
specific components, devices, mechanisms, and systems
Inside—Preview New Directions in Machine Design Encyclopedic
coverage unmatched by any other reference
*Actuators
*Bearings
*Belts
*Brakes
*Cams
*Chains
*Clamps
*Clutches
*Controllers
*Couplings
*Cranks
*Drivers
*Encoders
*Feeders
*Gears
*Genevas
*Joints
*Latches
*Linkages
*Magnets
*Manipulators
*Motors
*Pumps
*Robots
*Screws
*Sensors
*Solenoids
*Springs
*Switches
*Transmissions
From the Back Cover
The only reference of its kind, this sourcebook contains drawings
and descriptions of more than 2000 different mechanisms and
mechanical devices that have proven themselves in modern products,
machines, and systems. This encyclopedic guide offers:
-An extensive pictorial directory of time-tested components,
mechanisms, and devices that have applications in new designs and
modifications
-Illustrated technical articles summarizing important, expanding
fields in mechanical, electromechanical, and mechatronic design
and engineering
-A source of historical information about mechanical components
and devices that have participated in design solutions in the past
and can be recycled for new designs, or will offer ideas that will
inspire original concepts
Whatever mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic device,
product, or system you are designing or improving'motion-control
components, appliances, machine tools, or spacecraft'you will find
relevant illustrations and text in this book. Mechanisms and
Mechanical Devices Sourcebook is a must addition to your personal
technical library.
-Provides an introduction to or refresher on the design and
function of classical mechanical elements including bearings,
belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears,
genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and
switches
-Key equations and charts for designing mechanisms
-Features a complete index, making it easy to find references to
specific components, devices, mechanisms, and systems
Inside'Preview New Directions in Machine Design
Encyclopedic coverage unmatched by any other reference
-Actuators
-Bearings
-Belts
-Brakes
-Cams
-Chains
-Clamps
-Clutches
-Controllers
-Couplings
-Cranks
-Drivers
-Encoders
-Feeders
-Gears
-Genevas
-Joints
-Latches
-Linkages
-Magnets
-Manipulators
-Motors
-Pumps
-Robots
-Screws
-Sensors
-Solenoids
-Springs
-Switches
-Transmissions
About the Author
Neil Sclater began his career as an engineer in the military
aerospace industry and a Boston engineering consulting firm before
changing his career path to writing and editing on electronics and
electromechanical subjects. He was a staff editor for engineering
publications in electronic design, instrumentation, and product
engineering, including McGraw-Hill's PRODUCT ENGINEERING mgazine,
before starting his own business as a consultant and contributing
editor in technical communication.
For the next 25 years, Mr. Sclater served a diversified list of
industrial clients by writing marketing studies, technical
articles, brochures, and new product releases. During this period,
he also directly served a wide list of publishers by writing
hundreds of by-lined articles for many different magazines and
newspapers on various topics in engineering and industrial
marketing.
Mr. Sclater holds degrees from Brown University and Northeastern
University, and he has completed gradute courses in industrial
management. He is the author or co-author of seven books on
engineering subjects: six of these were published by McGraw-Hill's
Professional Book Group. He previously revised and edited the
Second Edition of MECHANISMS AND MECHANICAL DEVICES SOURCEBOOK
after the death of Mr. Chironis.
The late Nicholas P. Chironis developed the concept for MECHANISMS
AND MECHANICAL DEVICES SOURCEBOOK, and was the author/editor of
the First Edition. He was a mechanical engineer and consultant in
industry before joining the staff of Product Engineering magazine,
as its mechanical design editor. Later in his career, he was an
editor for other McGraw-Hill engineering publications. He had
previously been a mechanical engineer for International Business
Machines and Mergenthaler Linotype Corporation, and he was an
instructor in product design at the Cooper Union School of
Engineering in New York City. Mr. Chironis earned both his
bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY.
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