Optimized driving mechanisms for oscillatory conveyors

Abstract

The simplest linkages arc investigated as driving mechanisms of constant load·pressure type horizontal oscillatory conveyors. Conveyance is optimized, subject to necessary constraints and permitting limited back-slip. Ihe off·set slider-crank is found to give only marginal improvement over the centric slider-crank and that only when the transmission angle permitted is not high. Prefixing a double-crank with optimized dimesions to a centric slider-Crack is found to more than double the conyance, with good transmission angles. Numerical results are for a particular stroke and friction coefficient. Enough information is provided to enable computation under different conditions.