Geneva drive
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Animation showing a six-position external Geneva drive in operation.
The Geneva drive or Geneva mechanism is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent rotary motion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geneva drive” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.