Handbook of Machine Design P47
SUMMARY This chapter addresses the design of cam systems in which flexibility is not a consideration. Flexible, high-speed cam systems are too involved for handbook presentation. Therefore only two generic families of motion, trigonometric and polynomial, are discussed. This covers most of the practical problems. The rules concerning the reciprocating motion of a follower can be adapted to angular motion as well as to three-dimensional cams. Some material concerns circular-arc cams, which are still used in some fine mechanisms....
