toggle joint

English
How a toggle joint multiplies force

Noun

toggle joint (plural toggle joints)

  1. A mechanical linkage of the type of an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure when brought into this position.
    • 2009, Ross Thomson, Structures of change in the mechanical age, page 48:
      A toggle joint, which used a lever system to multiply power, replaced the screw mechanism for forcing down the impression-forming platen.

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References
  • toggle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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