Double Cam and Gear Rack Mechanism

Input: green double cam
Output: pink awl, the point of which traces green closed line.
Change cam profiles for various shapes of the line.
Grey bar, violet slider and orange lever create a coulisse mechanism.
Pink rack is not always perpendicular to the line connecting cam and gear centers so some tooth gap of the rack-gear drive is needed.
The mechanism is applied in shoe making machines.

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