Design Of Mandrel Automatic Rotating Mechanism For An Autoclave

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OK it is your project? How do you heat it up? How do you isolate it? What will be inside? What material is the autoclave made of?

What do you want:

drive mechanism? Heating sytem? Doors? Windows? Robots? Bring it on.

ya it's my porject....... and my job is design a rotating mechanism only...... auto clave is already designed and its in use now

a composite material (mandrel) which should be supported will be inside.... so we have to support the mandrel and rotate it at 0.1rpm... (180° in 5minutes and it should be counter clockwise also)

we need a idea for supporting the structure and rotating it

Do your own homework.

Look at a rotisserie on a Bar-B-Q grill. It's supported at both ends and goes round n round.

ya it's a good mechanism even i have tried it..

but i need to rotate 180° clock wise and 180° anti clockwise..... at a rate of 0.1rpm..

i.e it should rotate 36° for every minute

any other idea,,.,.,? plz let me know,. right now i'm working on supporting the structure(cylinder) then i have to work on the rotating mechanism,.,., i can reduce the speed by gear box,. but i need some innovative rotating mechanisms,.,.,,.,.,. the rotation is of clockwise and anticlockwise,.,.,

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