Illustrated Descriptions of a Large Variety of Standard and Special Mechanisms Selected by Experienced Machine Designers as Outstanding Examples of Ingenious Mechanical Movements for Use in Designing Automatic Machines and other Mechanical Devices.

By Jones, Franklin D.

New York: The Industrial Press; London, The Machinery Publishing Co. Ltd. 1930, First Edition (stated). Large, thick 8vo – 23.5 cm. (6), 536, (2) pp. Index. Publisher’s leather textured forest green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titles on cover and spine – ruled in bright gilt. A Fine copy with no prior ownership markings, no foxing, folds or tears, tight un-cracked hinges. An extraordinarily well-preserved copy of a difficult to find title in its first edition original state. Rare.

The book contains clear descriptions and an abundance of illustrations pertaining to the important and fundamental elements of mechanics and mechanisms. Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features that make it of special interest. The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of application and 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; overload relief mechanisms, reversing mechanisms, speed changing mechanisms, straight line motions, feeding mechanisms, and many more.

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