Slide mechanisms
Motion transformation mechanisms with local contact

A slide mechanism is an articulated system made up of at least two guided parts, one of which has an end that slides in a groove carried by the other; these two parts, or cranks, can be driven in rotation or translation. The driving part is referred to as a crankpin, the driven part as a slide.

Such a mechanism transmits movement from one organ to another, modifying it according to an imposed law.

In elementary mechanisms, the two cranks of lengths O ₁B and O₂M (figure 47) rotate around two fixed points O ₁ and O₂ and are hinged together at a point M that slides along O ₁B in a groove.

The driving crank O ₂M...