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A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate '''Swashplate'''] is essentially a disc mounted on a rotating shaft at an angle such that it can transfer '''[[Types of Motion|reciprocating motion]]''' to a follower which is constrained to slide parallel to the same shaft - it may be regarded as a simple form of '''[[Cylindrical Cam]]'''.
 
=====Description=====
 
A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate '''Swashplate'''] is essentially a disc mounted on a rotating shaft at an angle such that it can transfer '''[[Types of Motion|reciprocating motion]]''' to a follower which is constrained to slide parallel to the same shaft.
 
 
=====Features and Appications=====
 
'''Swashplates''' may be regarded as a simple form of '''[[Cylindrical Cam]]'''.




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=====Animation=====
* Examples from '''[[2100 Animated Mechanical Mechanisms|Nguyen Duc Thang's]]''' YouTube Channel '''[[2100 Animated Mechanical Mechanisms]]'''
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Latest revision as of 13:50, 28 August 2016

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Description

A Swashplate is essentially a disc mounted on a rotating shaft at an angle such that it can transfer reciprocating motion to a follower which is constrained to slide parallel to the same shaft.


Features and Appications

Swashplates may be regarded as a simple form of Cylindrical Cam.



Note: They can be modelled, in wooden mechanical toys for example, by gluing a Ply or MDF disc at an angle on to a rotating Dowel - or by simply cutting the end of a larger diameter Dowel at an angle.


Animation
Swashplate - note that, in this example, the follower rotates during Reciprocation because of its angled flat contact with the tilted plate.


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