What is a pantograph? Show that it can produce paths exactly similar to the ones traced out by a point on a link on an enlarged or reduced.

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Subject: Kinematics of Machinery

Topic: Special Mechanism

Difficulty: High

kinematics of machinery

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A pantograph is an instrument used to reproduce to an enlarged or reduce scale and as exactly as possible the path describes by a given point.

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It consists of a jointed parallelogram ABCD as shown in fig. it is made up of bars connected by turning pairs. The bar BA …

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