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THE ULTIMATE COMPENDIUM OF MECHANICAL PARTS AND INGENIOUS DEVICES
This user-friendly, visual guide to parts and assemblies is an ideal working tool for anyone who designs, repairs, or operates machinery. Robert O. Parmley's Machine Devices and Components: Illustrated Sourcebook quick access to detailed images of hundreds of machine parts. Illustrated mechanisms include cams, gears, clutches, fasteners, housing mechanisms, and rotary and reciprocating elements.
Featuring hundreds upon hundreds of components commonly used in home appliances, office machines, vehicles, aircraft, ships, construction, factory equipment, machine tools, as well as accompanying standards tables, design formulas, and classical analytical methods provide additional help with selection and problem-solving challenges. No working engineer or technician will want to be without this amazing book.
HUNDREDS OF DEVICES, PLUS KEY DATA AND EQUATIONS
Mechanisms Machine Elements Gearing Assemblies Bearings with Rolling Contact Pipes, Fittings, and Valves Key Equations and Charts for Designing Mechanisms
For all who work with complex mechanical devices to create a more efficient, safe, and clean world, here is the ideal sourcebook. Inside, you'll find illustrations of devices and components for use in:
AUTOMOBILES
CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY
ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS
ENGINES: AUTO, AEROSPACE, SHIP
FUEL & COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY
HOME APPLIANCES
MEDICAL & HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT
HVAC
INSTRUMENTATION
MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING
PETROLEUM INDUSTRIES
PLASTICS MANFUACTURING
ROBOTICS
TEXTILES MACHINERY
Review
Henry Ford claimed to have invented nothing new but simply to have combined the discoveries of others. Similarly, modern designers of complex devices, even those as innovative as the Segway, rely on earlier designers for many of the basic elements in the new device. The trick is to be aware of these earlier designs. Sourcebooks such as Parmley's are a primary source of such information. It is the latest in a line extending at least from Ramelli in the 16th century through Henry T. Brown's 1868 Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements... (many reprint eds.); Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, comp. by Nicholas P. Chironis (CH, Mar'92); Preben W. Jensen's Classical and Modern Mechanisms for Engineers and Inventors (1991); and Parmley's own more quantitative and analytical Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components (2000). Here Parmley, a registered professional engineer, reproduces more than 1,500 clearly diagrammed, ingenious and practical mechanisms selected from specialist engineering journals. He divides them into three categories: assemblies (to minimize vibration, limit torque and/or overloading); power transmission (gear systems, clutches, chains, belts, shafts); and individual components. An engineering library should have at least one of these modern sourcebooks; Parmley's is an excellent example. Summing Up: High recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; professionals; two-year technical program students. -- G.E. Herrick, emeritus, Maine Maritime Academy
Synopsis
Invaluable to anyone who designs, repairs, or operates machines, this sourcebook contains 2000 illustrations of the most commonly used components found in home appliances, office machines, vehicles, aircraft, ships, construction, factory equipment, and machine tools. The author also includes design formulas and structural data.
Contents: Mechanisms * Machine Elements * Gearing * Fluid-Filled Bearing * Bearings with Rolling Contact * Packing and Seals * Pipe, Fitting, and Valves * Key Equations and Charts for Designing Mechanisms
About the Author
Robert O. Parmley, P.E., CMfgE, CSI, is co-founder, President and Principal Consulting Engineer of Morgan and Parmley, Ltd., Professional Consulting Engineers, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. He is also a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Contruction Specifications Institute, the American Design Drafting Association, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and is listed in the AAES
Who's Who in Engineering. Mr. Parmley holds a BSME and an MSCE from Columbia Pacific University and is a registered professional engineer in Wisconsin, California, and Canada. He is also a certified manufacturing engineer under SME's national cerification program and a certified wastewater plant operator in the State of Wisconsin. In a career covering more than four decades, Mr. Parmley has worked on the design and construction supervision of a wide variety of structures, systems, and machines -- from dams and bridges to municipal sewage treatment facilities and minicipal water projects.
The author of over 40 technical articles published in leading professional journals, he is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components; the HVAC Field Manual; the Hydraulics Field Manual, now in its Second Edition; the HVAC Design Data Sourcebook; the Mechanical Components Handbook; the Civil Engineer's Illustrated Sourcebook; the Standard Handbook of Fastening and Joining, now in its Third Edition; and the Field Engineer's Manual, now in its Third Edition, all published by McGraw-Hill.
Table of Contents
PREFACEINTRODUCTIONSection 1: Ingenious MechanismsSection 2: Creative AssembliesSection 3: LinkagesSection 4: ConnectionsSection 5: Locking Devices & MethodsSection 6: Gears & GearingSection 7: ClutchesSection 8: Chains, Sprockets & RatchetsSection 9: Belts & BeltingSection 10: Shafts & CouplingsSection 11: Threaded ComponentsSection 12: PinsSection 13: SpringsSection 14: CamsSection 15: Grommets, Spacers & InsertsSection 16: WashersSection 17: O-RingsSection 18: Retaining RingsSection 19: BallsSection 20: Bushings & BearingsINDEX