Mechanism for Drawing Intersection of Cone and Plane

Input: pink crank.
Middle point of blue slider draws intersection (green ellipse) of yellow cone and a plane. The plane is created by axis of sliding joint of green link when it turns.
Axis of the cone and rotary axis of the pink crank are in line.
Axis of revolute joint between the blue slider and orange part contains middle point of the blue slider and is parallel to rotary axis of the pink crank.
Adjust tilt angle of the brown bearing to get various intersections.

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