Bell is Ringing

Original project made with Autodesk Inventor 2014. The animation and renderings were made by using the Inventor Studio module. Besides the gravity force, the action is due to an imposed rotation of the small spur gear (240 deg/s = 6 rot/min). As you can see in the Video, a mechanism with spur gears and levers produces a slow oscillation of the fork with long dwells at the stroke ends. This oscillation rotates the hammer till it moves over the vertical position. Then the hammer is moved by the gravitation force so it knocks the bell. If you use Inventor, you have to download all the files in a single directory, then open the .iam file with Inventor 2014, 2015..., enter Environments/Dynamic Simulation, and click on the Play button. Instead of 5000 images, you can apply 1000 images if you have to wait too much for the simulation. I choose a large number of images to have a greater resolution of the living clip. Enjoy!