Toggle Positions

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Toggle positions

Consider a Crank Rocker mechanism

Toggle positions
Toggle positions
• O2C2D2 Link 2 & Link 3
become collinear
• C1O2D1

• The toggle positions are determined by the collinearity of two of the moving
links.
• when the crank O2C (link 2) is collinear with the coupler CD (link 3), either extended
collinear or overlapping collinear . It cannot be back driven from the rocker (link 4)
through these collinear positions, but when the crank (link 2) is driven, it will carry
through both toggles because it is Grashof.

• These toggle positions also define the limits of motion of the driven rocker
Crank angles corresponding to the toggle positions ?

Consider non-Grashof triple-rocker

Line h is shared by two triangles and hence using


trigonometry, we could write

To find the maximum and minimum values of input angle θ, above expression can be
differentiated w.r.t to θ and setting to 0
−2𝑎𝑑 −𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃𝑑𝜃 = −2𝑏𝑐(−sinμ𝑑𝜇) 2

𝑑𝜃 𝑏𝑐𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜇 This expression can only be zero when


= = 0 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜇 = 0, 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝜇 = 0° 𝑜𝑟 180°
𝑑𝜇 𝑎𝑑𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃
Since links a,b,c & d can not be zero.
If μ = 0° 𝑜𝑟 180° then cos𝜇 = ±1, Substituting these two values for cos𝜇 in Eq. 1. give a
Solution for 𝜃
Applications
The toggle mechanism has many applications where overcome a large
resistance with a small driving force is necessary, for example, clutches, rock
crushers, truck tailgates, punching machines, forging machines, injection
moulding machines

Input

Foutput Finput
Output

Stone crusher
Punch press
truck tailgate

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