Assembly line positioning stage

Positioning stages on a conveyor chain.

Discussion of the depicted example design

Elements of the design:

• two screws: light yellow and light blue
• two wedges: orange and dark blue
• slider wedge: light grey
• adapter pallet: red
• crystolecule under construction: mid grey at the top
• assembly line chain segments: dark grey at the bottom

It is a differential mechanism.

• Turning the two screws in the opposite directions shifts the crystolecule upwards or downwards
• Turning the two screws in the same direction shifts the crystolecule sideways
• The lengthwise position is continuously swept through by the assembly lines chains movement

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• Note that this design makes heavy use of Van der Waals force. The design would not work at the macroscale