Reuleaux, Kinematics of Machinery, 1876.
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Front Matter
(6.5 MB) Front Cover, Title Page, Preface, Table of Contents, Introduction
Chapters & Sections
- (11.6 MB) [I] General Outlines. (pages 29-55)
- § 1. Nature of the Machine-Problem
- § 2. The Science of Machines
- § 3. General Solution of the Machine-Problem
- (10.7 MB) [II] Phoronomic Propositions. (pages 56-85)
- § 4. Preliminary Remarks
- § 5. Relative Motion in a Plane
- § 6. Temporary Centre; the Central Polygon
- § 7. Centroids; Cylindric Rolling
- § 8. The Determination of Centroids
- § 9. Reduction of Centroids
- § 10. Rotation about a Point
- § 11. Conic Rolling
- § 12. Most general Form of the Relative Motion of Rigid Bodies
- § 13. Twisting and Rolling of Ruled Surfaces
- (25.6 MB) [III] Pairs of Elements. (pages 86-168)
- § 14. Different Forms of Pairs of Elements
- § 15. The Determination of Closed Pairs
- § 16. Motion in Closed Pairs
- § 17. The necessary and sufficient Restraint of Elements
- § 18. Restraint against Sliding
- § 19. Restraint against Turning
- § 20. Simultaneous Restraint of Sliding and Turning
- § 21. The Higher Pairs of Elements
- § 22. Higher Pairs.- Duangle and Triangle
- § 23. Point-paths of the Duangle relatively to the Equilateral Triangle
- § 24. Point-paths of the Triangle relatively to the Duangle
- § 25. Figures of Constant Breadth
- § 26. Higher Pairs of Elements.-Equilateral Curve-triangle and Rhombus
- § 27. Paths of Points of the Curve-triangle relatively to the Square
- § 28. Paths described by Points of the Square relatively to the Curve-triangle
- § 29. Higher Pairs of Elements :-other Curved Figures of Constant Breadth
- § 30. General Determination of Profiles of Elements for a given Motion
- § 31. First Method.-Deterinination of the Profile of one Element, that of the other being arbitrarily assumed
- § 32. Second Method.-Auxiliary Centroids
- § 33. Third Method.-Profiles described by Secondary Centroids
- § 34. Fourth Method.-Point-paths of Elements used as Profiles
- § 35. Fifth Method.-Parallels or Equidistants to the Roulettes as Profiles
- § 36. Sixth Method.-Approximations to Curved Profiles by Circular Arcs. Willis's Method
- § 37. Seventh Method.-The Centroids themselves as Profiles of Elements
- § 38. Generalisation of the foregoing Methods
- (14.3 MB) [IV] Incomplete Pairs of Elements. (pages 169-185)
- § 39. Closure of Pairs of Elements by Sensible Forces
- § 40. Force-Closure in the Rolling of Axoids
- § 41. Flectional Kinematic Elements
- § 42. Springs
- § 43. Closure of a Pair of Elements by a Kinematic Chain
- § 44. Complete Kinematic Closure of the Flectional Elements
- (12.8 MB) [V] Incomplete Kinematic Chains. (pages 186-200)
- § 45. Dead Points in Mechanism,-their Passage by Means of Sensible Forces
- § 46. Passage' of the Dead Points by Chain-Closure
- § 47. Closure of Kinematic Chains by Pairs of Elements
- (21.8 MB) [VI] Sketch of the History of Machine Development. (pages 201-246)
- § 48. The Origin and Early Growth of Machines
- § 49. The Development of the Machine from a Kinematic point of view
- § 50. The Growth of Modern Machinery
- § 51. The Present Tendency of Machine Development
- (10.1 MB) [VII] Kinematic Notation. (pages 247-273)
- § 52. Necessity for a Kinematic Notation
- § 53. Former Attempts
- § 54. Nature of the Symbols required
- § 55. Class or Name-Symbols
- § 56. Form-Symbols
- § 57. Symbols of Relation
- § 58. Formulie for simple Kinematic Chains and Mechanisms
- § 59. Contracted Formulie
- § 60. Formulie for Compound Chains
- § 61. Formulie for Chains containing Pressure-organs
- § 62. Contracted Formlua~ for Single Mechanisms
- (50 MB) [VIII] Kinematic Analysis. (pages 274-341)
- § 63. The Problems of Kinematic Analysis
- § 64. The "Mechanical Powers" or "Simple Machines"
- § 65. The Quadric (Cylindric) Crank Chain
- § 66. Parallel Cranks
- § 67. Anti-parallel Cranks
- § 68. The Isosceles Crank-train
- § 69. The Cylindric Slider-crank Chain
- § 70. The Isosceles Slider-crank Chain
- § 71. ERpansion of Elements in the Slider-crank Chain
- § 72. The Normal Double Slider-crank Chain
- § 73. The Crossed Slider-crank Chain
- § 74. Recapitulation of the Cylindric Crank Trains
- § 75. The Conic Quadric Crank Chain
- § 76. Reduction of a Kinematic Chain
- § 77. Augmentation of Kinematic Chains
- (25 MB) [IX] Analysis of Chamber-Crank Trains. (pages 342-401)
- § 78. Chaining of Crank Mechanisms with Pressure-Organs
- § 79. Chamber-crank Trains from the Turning Slider-crank
- § 80. Chamber-crank Trains from the Isosccles Turning Slider-crank
- § 81. Chamber-crank Trains from the Swinging-block
- § 82. Chamber-crank Trains from the Turning-block
- § 83. Chamber-crank Trains from the Swinging Slider-crank
- § 84. Chamber-crank Trains from the Turning Double Slider-crank
- § 85. Chamber-crank Trains from the Turning Cross-block
- § 86. Chamber-crank Trains from the Lever-crank
- § 87. Chamber-crank Trains from the Double-crank
- § 88. Chamber Trains from Conic Crank Mechanisms
- § 89. Chamber-gear from the Conic Turning Double-slider
- § 90. Chamber-gear from the Conic Swinging Cross-block
- § 91. Chamber-gear from the Conic Turning Cross-block
- § 92. Review of the Preceeding Results
- (14.8 MB) [X] Analysis of Chamber-Wheel Trains. (pages 402-435)
- § 93. Chaining of Spur-Gearing with Pressure-Organs
- § 94. The Pappenheim Chamber-wheels
- § 95. Fabry's Ventilator
- § 96. Root's Blower
- § 97. Payton's Water Meter
- § 98. Evrard's Chamber-wheel Gear
- § 99. Repsold's Pump
- § 100. Dart's or Behrens' Chamber-wheel Gear
- § 101. Eve's Chamber-wheel Gear
- § 102. R~villion's Chamber-wheel Gear
- § 103. Other Simple Chamber-wheel Trains
- § 104. Compound Chamber-wheel Gear
- § 105. Epicyclic Chamber-wheel Gear
- (34.6 MB) [XI] Analysis of the Constructive Elements of Machinery. (pages 436-485)
- § 106. The Machine as a Combination of Constructive Elements
- § 107. Screws and Screwed Joints
- § 108. Keys, Cutters, &c., and Keyed Joints
- § 109. Rivets and Riveting, Forced or Strained Joints
- § 110. Pins, Axels, Shafts, Spindles
- § 111. Couplings
- § 112. Plummer Blocks, Bedplates, Brackets and Framing
- § 113. Ropes, Belts, and Chains
- § 114. Friction-wheels; Belt and Rope-gearing
- § 115. Toothed-wheels, Chain-wheels
- § 116. Fly-wheels
- § 117. Levers, Cranks, Connecting rods
- § 118. Crossheads and Guides
- § 119. Click-wheels and Gear
- § 120. Reversed Motion in Free Click-trains
- § 121. Ratchet-trains
- § 122. Brakes and Brake-gear
- § 123. Engaging and Disengaging Gear
- § 124. Recapitulation of the Methods used for Stopping and Setting in Motion
- § 125. Pipes, Steam and Pump-cylinders, Pistons and Stuffing-boxes
- § 126. Valves
- § 127. Springs as Constructive Elements
- § 128. General Conclusions from the Foregoing Analysis
- (9.2 MB) [XII] The Analysis of Complete Machines. (pages 486-526)
- § 129. Existing Methods and Treatment
- § 130. The Tool
- § 131. Kinematic Nature of the Tool
- § 132. The Receptor
- § 133. Kinematic Nature of the Complete Machine
- § 134. Prime-movers and Direct-actors
- § 135. The Principal Subdivisions of Complete Machines. Descriptive Analysis
- § 136. Examples of the Descriptive Analysis of Complete Machines
- § 137. The Relation of Machinery to Social Life
- (33.4 MB) [XIII] Kinematic Synthesis. (pages 527-584)
- § 138. General Nature of Kinematic Synthesis
- § 139. Direct Kinematic Synthesis
- § 140. Indirect Kinematic Synthesia
- § 141. Diagram of the Synthetic Processes
- § 142. Synthesis of the Lower Pairs of Elements
- § 143. The Simpler Higher Pairs
- § 144. Synthesis of Toothed-wheel Pairs
- § 145. Cam Pairs
- § 146. Recapitulation of the Pairs of Rigid Elements
- § 147. Pairs of Elements containing Tension-Organs
- § 148. Pairs of Elements containing Pressure-Organs
- § 149. Recapitulation of the Pairs containing Flectional Elements
- § 150. Determination of the Simple Chains
- § 151. The Screw Chain
- § 152. Cylinder-Chains
- (6.1 MB) Notes, Index, Back Cover
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