Assembly line positioning stage
From apm
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
- Note that this design makes heavy use of Van der Waals force. The design would not work at the macroscale