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Definition of Toggle joint
1. Noun. A joint made by two arms attached by a pivot; used to apply pressure at the two ends by straightening the joint.
Definition of Toggle joint
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toggle Joint
Literary usage of Toggle joint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Useful Arts: Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science by Jacob Bigelow (1853)
"Continued Rectilinear Motion, Band, Rack, Universal Lever, Screw, Change of
Direction, toggle joint. Of Engaging and Disengaging Machinery. ..."
2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Toggle-joint. An elbow-joint. A joint formed by two pieces articulating endways,
... A cotton or hay press operating by the action of a toggle-joint. ..."
3. Machinery (1900)
"The toggle-joint, while one of the simplest mechanisms to construct, ... It should
be noted that while this mechanism is called a "toggle-joint," it is ..."
4. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference-book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1898)
"... when the angle »zero. toggle-joint is used where great resistances are to be
overcome i very small distances, as in stone-crushers (Fig. 103). ..."
5. Machine Design by Charles Henry Benjamin, James David Hoffman (1913)
"CHAPTER XIII • DESIGN OF TOGGLE-JOINT PRESS 123. Introductory Statement. ...
A good illustration of this is the toggle-joint press. ..."
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