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    This document defines key terms related to cams and cam mechanisms. It describes cams as solid pieces designed to impart desired motion. It defines terms like follower, base circle, pitch profile, cam profile, cam angle, and displacement diagram. It describes types of follower motion including uniform, harmonic, gravitational, and cycloidal motion. Displacement diagrams are used to show the relationship between cam and follower positions over one revolution.

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    This document defines key terms related to cams and cam mechanisms. It describes cams as solid pieces designed to impart desired motion. It defines terms like follower, base circle, pitch profile, cam profile, cam angle, and displacement diagram. It describes types of follower motion including uniform, harmonic, gravitational, and cycloidal motion. Displacement diagrams are used to show the relationship between cam and follower positions over one revolution.

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    This document defines key terms related to cams and cam mechanisms. It describes cams as solid pieces designed to impart desired motion. It defines terms like follower, base circle, pitch profile, cam profile, cam angle, and displacement diagram. It describes types of follower motion including uniform, harmonic, gravitational, and cycloidal motion. Displacement diagrams are used to show the relationship between cam and follower positions over one revolution.

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    This document defines key terms related to cams and cam mechanisms. It describes cams as solid pieces designed to impart desired motion. It defines terms like follower, base circle, pitch profile, cam profile, cam angle, and displacement diagram. It describes types of follower motion including uniform, harmonic, gravitational, and cycloidal motion. Displacement diagrams are used to show the relationship between cam and follower positions over one revolution.

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    MACHINE ELEMENTS

    Cams
    A cam is a plate, a cylinder or any solid piece designed in such a way as to produce any desired
    motion of the follower or the cam itself.
    Definition of terms
    1. Follower
    The piece in contact with the cam to which motion is imparted to.
    2. Radial follower
    A follower whose line of action passes through the cam shaft center.
    3. Offset follower
    A follower whose line action does not coincide with the center of the cam.
    4. Base circle
    A circle with the center at camshaft center and radius equal to the nearest point in
    the pitch profile.
    5. Pitch profile
    The path followed by the tracer point during one revolution of the cam.
    6. Cam profile or working curve
    The projection of the actual cam surface.
    • For a plate cam having a knife-edge or point follower, the theoretical and
    working curves are the same.
    • For a plate cam having roller follower, the theoretical curve is plotted with
    respect to the roller center and working curve is drawn by making the
    necessary adjustments for roller radius.
    7. Cam angle
    An angle the cam turns through while the follower is displaced. In a number of
    cases several cam angles are required in one complete revolution of the cam for the
    follower to make several strokes during a cam rotation.
    8. Displacement diagram
    A diagram plotted in a rectangular axis, it is used to show the relation between
    successive positions of the follower and the cam. The diagram represents the follower
    displacement as the ordinate, the linear distances in the abscissa representing the angular
    cam displacements.
    9. Rise or throw
    The outward or upward displacement of the follower from its lowest position. We
    may also call this outward movement the stroke or lift.
    10. Return or fall
    The inward or downward displacement of the follower from its highest position.
    11. Dwell, still rest
    Occurs when the follower remains stationary for a finite rotation of the cam.
    Displacement diagram
    The relations between the successive positions of the driver and follower in a cam motion
    may be represented by means of a displacement diagram, whose abscissas are linear distances
    arbitrarily chosen to represent angular motion of the cam and whose ordinates are the
    corresponding displacements of the follower from its initial position.
    Type of follower motion (using eight division for all types of motion)
    a. Uniform motion
    Motion of the is proportional to the cam displacement and is represented by a
    straight line.
    b. Harmonic motion
    Motion of the follower is defined by a point moving at constant speed about the
    circumference of a circle.
    c. Gravitational or parabolic
    Motion of the follower is defined by the action of gravity acting on a body.
    d. Cycloidal motion
    Motion of the follower is defined such as that is displacement satisfies the
    𝜃 1 𝜃
    equation H = L[𝛽 − 2𝜋 𝑠𝑖𝑛2𝜋 𝜋].
    For the construction of cycloidal motion with eight intervals, with center at the
    origin O draw a circle of radius equal to H/2π, divide the circumference of this circle into
    the same number of parts as the angle/time scale, in this case eight. The eight marks on
    the circumference are projected horizontally onto the vertical diameter of the circle. The
    marks on the vertical diameter are then projected parallel to the corresponding line Oh on
    the angle/time axis. The intersections made with the division lines in the angle/time line
    will determine the required curve.

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