Invaluable to anyone who designs, repairs, or operates machines, this sourcebook contains 2000 illustrations of the most commonly used components found in home appliances, office machines, vehicles, aircraft, ships, construction, factory equipment, and machine tools. The author also includes design formulas and structural data.
Contents:Mechanisms * Machine Elements * Gearing * Fluid-Filled Bearing * Bearings with Rolling Contact * Packing and Seals * Pipe, Fitting, and Valves * Key Equations and Charts for Designing Mechanisms
PREFACEINTRODUCTIONSection 1: Ingenious MechanismsSection 2: Creative AssembliesSection 3: LinkagesSection 4: ConnectionsSection 5: Locking Devices & MethodsSection 6: Gears & GearingSection 7: ClutchesSection 8: Chains, Sprockets & RatchetsSection 9: Belts & BeltingSection 10: Shafts & CouplingsSection 11: Threaded ComponentsSection 12: PinsSection 13: SpringsSection 14: CamsSection 15: Grommets, Spacers & InsertsSection 16: WashersSection 17: O-RingsSection 18: Retaining RingsSection 19: BallsSection 20: Bushings & BearingsINDEXRobert O. Parmley, P.E., CMfgE, CSI, is co-founder, President and Principal Consulting Engineer of Morgan & Parmley, Ltd., Professional Consulting Engineers, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. He is also a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Contruction Specifications Institute, the American Design Drafting Association, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and is listed in the AAESWho's Who in Engineering.Mr. Parmley holds a BSME and an MSCE from Columbia Pacific University and is a registered professional engineer in Wisconsin, California, and Canada. He is also a certified manufacturing engineer under SME's national l#Ý