Centrifugal Clutch

Input: blue shaft.
Output: green shaft.
Yellow sliders have prismatic joints with the input shaft.
When velocity of the input shaft increases to prescribed value, the yellow sliders move outward by centrifugal force. Pink friction disks press on the output shaft disks with large force (due to toggle action of the grey bars) and thus connect the clutch by friction.

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