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An Analytical Treatment of the Cam Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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The cam problem may be stated as follows:

To design a curve rotating about O so as to actuate by contact a given follower curve to rotate about O′ in a prescribed periodic manner.

Reference may be made to Barr, Kinematics of Machinery, Chapter 5, for the engineer's method of constructing cams by means of a template. A fuller analysis of the problem is aimed at in this paper.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1920