{"id":5619,"date":"2025-07-22T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:15:30","slug":"scotch-yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/theory-of-machines\/scotch-yoke","title":{"rendered":"Scotch Yoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Second Inversion (Scotch Yoke)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If any of the slide-blocks of the first inversion is fixed, the second inversion of the double-slider-crank chain is obtained as shown in Figure (a). This mechanism gives SHM. Its early application was on steam pumps, but it is now used as a mechanism on a test machine to produce vibrations. It is also used as a sine-cosine generator for computing elements Figure [(a) and (b)] shows a sketch of scotch yoke mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5620 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scotch-yoke.jpg\" alt=\"Scotch Yoke\" width=\"537\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scotch-yoke.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scotch-yoke-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Scotch-Yoke mechanism is used to convert the rotary motion into a sliding motion. As the crank 3 rotates, the horizontal portion of the link 1 slides or reciprocates in the fixed link 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Inversion (Scotch Yoke) If any of the slide-blocks of the first inversion is fixed, the second inversion of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,10],"tags":[1671,360],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory-of-machines","category-me","tag-scotch-yoke","tag-second-inversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}