{"id":5716,"date":"2025-07-24T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:05:10","slug":"ratchet-and-pawl-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/theory-of-machines\/ratchet-and-pawl-mechanism","title":{"rendered":"Ratchet and Pawl Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ratchet and Pawl Mechanism<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Ratchet and Pawl mechanism. The arm pivots about the center of the toothed ratchet wheel and is moved back and forth to index the wheel. The driving pawl rotates the ratchet wheel (or ratchet) in the counter clockwise direction and does no work on the return (clockwise) trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The locking pawl prevents the ratchet from reversing direction while the driving pawl returns. Both pawls are usually spring-locked against the ratchet. The <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/theory-of-machines\/intermittent-motion-mechanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mechanism<\/a> is widely used in devices such as \u201cratchet\u201d wrenches, winches, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5717 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pawl-mechanism.jpg\" alt=\" Pawl Mechanism\" width=\"288\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ratchet and Pawl Mechanism A Ratchet and Pawl mechanism. The arm pivots about the center of the toothed ratchet<\/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":[368,1684,1685],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory-of-machines","category-me","tag-ratchet-and-pawl-mechanism","tag-ratchet-wheel","tag-winches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","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=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}