Machine Devices and Components Illustrated Sourcebook

by Robert O. Parmley

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071436878
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/21/2004
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.20(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

Robert O. Parmley, P.E., CMfgE, CSI, is co-founder, President and Principal Consulting Engineer of Morgan & 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 & 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

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	xi
Section 1	Ingenious Mechanisms	1
Section 2	Creative Assemblies	2
Section 3	Linkages	3
Section 4	Connections	4
Section 5	Locking Devices & Methods	5
Section 6	Gears & Gearing	6
Section 7	Clutches	7
Section 8	Chains, Sprockets & Ratchets	8
Section 9	Belts & Belting	9
Section 10	Shafts & Couplings	10
Section 11	Threaded Components	11
Section 12	Pins	12
Section 13	Springs	13
Section 14	Cams	14
Section 15	Grommets, Spacers & Inserts	15
Section 16	Washers	16
Section 17	O-Rings	17
Section 18	Retaining Rings	18
Section 19	Balls	19
Section 20	Bushings & Bearings	20
	Index	I

Editorial Reviews

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

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