{"id":924,"date":"2024-07-08T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=924"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:31:08","slug":"types-of-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/theory-of-machines\/types-of-cam","title":{"rendered":"Types of Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>According to Shape<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wedge and flat cams:<\/strong> A wedge cam has a translational motion. The follower can either translate or oscillate.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-925 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wedge.jpg\" alt=\"Wedge cams\" width=\"146\" height=\"225\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Radial or Disc Cams :<\/strong> A cam in which the follower moves radially from the centre of rotation of the cam is known as a radial or disc cam.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-926 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/radial.jpg\" alt=\"Radial or Disc Cams\" width=\"201\" height=\"175\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spiral cams :<\/strong> A spiral cam is a face cam in which a groove is cut in the form of a spiral. It is used in computer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cylindrical cams:<\/strong> In a cylindrical cam, a cylinder which has a circumferential contour cut in surface, rotates about its axis. It is also known as <strong>barrel<\/strong> or <strong>drum cams<\/strong>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cylindrical.jpg\" alt=\"Cylindrical cams\" width=\"293\" height=\"153\" \/><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conjugate cams:<\/strong> It is a double disc cam and preferred when the requirements are low wear, low noise, better control of the follower, high speed, <strong>high dynamic loads<\/strong> etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Globoidal cams:<\/strong> It has two types of surface moderate i.e. convex or concave. It is used when speed is moderate and the angle of oscillation of the follower is large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/theory-of-machines\/kleins-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/theory-of-machines\/classification-of-gear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-the-theory-of-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is the Theory of Machines?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Shape Wedge and flat cams: A wedge cam has a translational motion. The follower can either translate or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,10],"tags":[313,312,315,314],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory-of-machines","category-me","tag-conjugate-cams","tag-cylindrical-cams","tag-flat-cams","tag-spiral-cams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}