Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors (4-Volume Set) (Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers & Inventors) (Hardcover)

by Franklin Jones (Author), Holbrook Horton (Author), John Newell (Author)
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• The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail.
• Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest.
• The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice.
• Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc. (January 1, 1930)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0831110848
• ISBN-13: 978-0831110840
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 5.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #220,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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121 of 124 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable Resource for Beginners and Experts, April 15, 2000

By	"howard_harrison" (Pemberton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This set of 4 volumes are chock-full of information on various mechanical devices, and how they work. The text explains how each device works, along with illustrations that point out what each part does in the mechanism. Since the all of the mechanisms are from real-world applications, the designs are proven. The organization of the 4 volumes are similar, for example: Cams & Special Cam Designs/Intermittent Motions.../Tripping or Stopping Mechanisms/Feeding Mechanisms/Etc. Also, the fact that the text is broken into 4 volumes, Its very convienient to browse through. I recommend this set to the beginner, up to the advanced application engineer, because most people don't have the time to re-invent the wheel.

49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Patent information repackaged, May 9, 2005

By	Mike Gil (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

Have you ever read a US Patent all the way through? That's what this book consists of -- a group of interesting and ingenious patents. Ie: very text based and very tediously written. For example: "Shaft A rotates within the proximity of cam B in a concentric manner producing a force C which exposes gate D to a level of thrust.... and so on"

While you don't have to be an engineer to read a patent document (but it helps), it's very time consuming to read through them and gain a summary understanding of how the device/mechanism is supposed to work. Patent lawyers write patents to protect the invention and not to make it easy for the average person to understand them.

I was hoping that this book was more descriptive with better diagrams than just a collection patents. A better title would've been "Ingenious Mechanisms - A collection of patents for Designers and Inventors".

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very comprehensive, detailed set!, November 30, 2004

By	Dug North "Automata Artist" (Harvard, MA United States) - See all my reviews

These books are very comprehensive. There are lots of multi-component mechanisms described in great detail for mechanically inclined people.

The machines depicted are of an historical nature. I don't see this as a shortcoming, however. Mechanisms of the sort found in these volumes were state-of-the-art at one time. There were no electronic sensors and computer controls at the turn of the last century. Everything had to work -- and had to work mechanically. The mechanisms explained in these volumes are a testament to a certain real-world ingenuity that most of us can't comprehend until we read books like these.