Stretch and Contraction Mechanism 05 May 2018, 13:00 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos, but don't worry, you can download it and watch it with your favorite video player! A combination of parallelogram mechanisms and gears. Loci of various points on the bars are shown. They can be ellipse, circle or straight line. By similar connecting of bars the stretch can be very long. « previous mechanism Irregular (Scalene) Reuleaux Triangle next mechanism » Twister Car load comments Please enable JavaScript to view the comments.