ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AMIT)

FACULTY OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING [FME]

NAME ID/NO

1. Adane belay ……………………………………NSR/140/12

2. Abrham ayalew ………………………………….NSR/129/12
3. Abrham ale ………………………………......NSR/ 123/12

DESIGN OF SINGLE MECHANICAL SCISSOR JACK

 Problem Statement
A scissor jack is mechanical device used to lift a heavy vehicles from the for
changing while and for maintenance purpose. The normal car jack we have in the
market is operated using bare hands and it is time consuming.It also requires
much energy from the person to rotate the jack. Hence, this report had been
prepared to recommend the design of the car jack that is user friendly and easier
to operate as do not required too much money to develop this product.

Objectives
It used to drive large loads with in short distances.
General objective
The general objective of this project is to improve the performance of Mechanical
scissor car jack to minimize the rotating force of the crank, to reduce time
consumations and to reduce the costs scissor jacks. And also to design Mechanical
scissor car jack that has the capacity to increase or decrease load of vehicle based on
the given specification.
Specific objectives
In our project the specific objectives are listed below;-
 Design of power screw
 Design of links
 Design of driving handle
 Design of connecting member
 Design of base plate
 Design of cup
 Design of nut
 Design of Bolt
 Design of washer
 Design of pin
 Geometric and force analysis of the jack
 Careful selection of appropriate material for each component crease load of
vehicle based on the given specification.
 Design Requirements and proposed methodology
Material selection for parts single mechanical scissor jack
The material selection is done by first taking less expensive steel material, which is to
be changed depending upon the various outcomes of the design procedure (Strength
analysis).

We select steel, an AISI 1020 grade carbon steel material to design bolts because
of
 Good heat treatment

 High strength
 Wear resistance
 Ease of producing component parts

Given specification
 Max height = 350mm
 Min height = 150mm
 Capacity load =1500kg
The whole dimension of the machine t the minimum and maximum height
Should be calculated first before we began force and strength analysis of
The machine.

Methodology

Conceptual sketch