Friction Sphere Variator

Input: the orange disk of spherical cap mounted on a motor shaft.
The green double cone has sliding key joint with the blue output shaft.
The disk can contact with the double cone under spring pressure.
Move the yellow slider with the double cone to one of their two positions for desired rotary direction.
Turn the white motor to get desired output velocity. The center of the orange spherical cap is laid on the axis of this rotary motion.

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