Engineering Academy of Southern New England
University of Rhode Island -- Mechanical Engineering Projects

Bessette Linkage

A fryer at a fast food place needed a way to raise a basket from in the fryer to be emptied into a tray on a nearby table.
The basket was made to be the coupler link for the output four-bar linkage.
The mechanism can be run by the small input link and the end of the long coupler link of the input four-bar linkage.
It was designed by Adam Bessette in MCE 323 Fall1995.