In this paper the ruled surfaces of two rigid bodies that are in contact while moving with a prescribed time-varying angular-velocity ratio are generated. These are then used as the contact surfaces of indexing cam mechanisms. In this way, planar, spherical and spatial mechanisms can be synthesized in a unified framework. The approach is illustrated with various examples.
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