Lathes: Their Construction and Operation

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Scott, Greenwood, 1923 - Lathes - 231 pages
 

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Page 125 - Such a shaper is shown in Fig. 3. It has a very rigid box bed a, which carries the ram b on top and one or more tables on its side. The ram is mounted on a saddle //, which can be moved along the bed either by hand or by an automatic feed. The line of motion of the saddle is at right angles to the line of motion of the ram; the tool is fed across the work by moving the saddle. The shaper head c is fastened to the end of the ram in the same manner as in a column shaper. Vertical slides m, m, which...
Page 221 - The allowable speed in any case depends upon several factors, the most important of which are (1) the...
Page 38 - K are free to slide longitudinally on their shafts simultaneously and in the same direction (that is, either to the right or to the left).

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