Jump to content

Hart's inversors

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Citation bot (talk | contribs) at 17:14, 7 April 2020 (Add: date, isbn, author pars. 1-1. | You can use this bot yourself. Report bugs here. | Activated by Zppix | Category:Engineering stubs‎ | via #UCB_Category). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Hart's (first) inversor. Links of the same color are the same length. The relative position of the fixed point, the input, and the output along their links is the same (half, here).
Hart's A-frame, or Hart's second inversor. The short links are half the length of the long ones. The center link is one quarter of the way down the long links. A fixed link along the bottom of the same length as the long links is not shown.

Hart's inversor is one of two mechanisms that provides a perfect straight line motion without sliding guides.[1] They were invented and published by Harry Hart in 1874–5.[1][2]

Hart's first inversor is based on an antiparallelogram. The addition of fixed points and a driving arm make it a 6-bar linkage. It can be used to convert rotary motion to a perfect straight line by fixing a point on one short link and driving a point on another link in a circular arc.[1][3]

Hart's second inversor, also known as Hart's A-frame, is less flexible in its dimensions, but has the useful property that the motion perpendicularly bisects the fixed base points.

Example dimensions

  • AB = AC = BD = 4 CE = ED = 2 Af = Bg = 3 fC = gD = 1 fg = 2
    • AB = AC = BD = 4
    • CE = ED = 2
    • Af = Bg = 3
    • fC = gD = 1
    • fg = 2
  • AB = Bg = 2 CE = FD = 6 CA = AE = 3 CD = EF = 12 Cp = pD = Eg = gF = 6
    • AB = Bg = 2
    • CE = FD = 6
    • CA = AE = 3
    • CD = EF = 12
    • Cp = pD = Eg = gF = 6

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "True straight-line linkages having a rectlinear translating bar" (PDF).
  2. ^ Ceccarelli, Marco (23 November 2007). International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. ISBN 9781402022043.
  3. ^ "Harts inversor (Has draggable animation)".

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hart's inversor.


Stub icon

This engineering-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hart%27s_inversors&oldid=949637381"