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| | Mechanism |
 | | Mechanism includes not only rigid links connected by rotating joints, but also cams and gears where the motion is transmitted by sliding surfaces, flexible cords, belts and chains, and logical elements, such as ratchets, trips, detents, escapements and interlocking mechanisms. |
 | | If we now connect the mechanism, so that the movement of the two cranks is simultaneously constrained by members 1 and 3, there will be one point with the same velocity in members 2 and 4, and it must lie at the intersection of the two lines 12,14 and 23,34. |
 | | The familiar and important crank-and-slider mechanism is a special case of the four-bar linkage where the radius of one crank is infinite, which means that the joint 34 moves on a straight line, as shown in the figure. |
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