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Lathe Design, Construction and Operation
by USINAGE
Technical book on lathe design, construction and operation. Cover and title pages visible. Full 480-page technical manual.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter I: History of the Lathe up to the Introduction of Screw Threads
- Tracing early history
- The lathe was the first machine tool
- The origin of the lathe
- An old definition of turning
- The first record of turning operations
- Another old-time definition of turning
- English classification of lathes
- The earliest form of the lathe proper, or the old "Tree Lathe"
- The Asiatic wood turner
- The "Spring-pole" lathe
- The "Fiddle-bow" lathe
- The essential features of a lathe
- The balance-wheel applied to a lathe
- The crank, connecting rod and treadle, applied to a lathe
- Origin of the term "Pitman"
- A foot lathe built by the Author
- A foot lathe with the balance-wheel located over head
- The friction clutch for foot-power machines
- Chapter II: The Development of the Lathe since the Introduction of Screw Threads
- Origin of the screw thread
- Ancient boring tools
- Suggestions of the screw form
- The "Worm Ginlet"
- Making the first nuts
- An old device for cutting threads in wood
- Archimedes and his helical device for raising water
- Jacques Berson's French lathe
- Joseph Moxan's English lathes
- The French lathe of 1772
- John Maudsley's English lathes
- Maudsley's slide-rest
- Another French lathe
- The use of a "master screw"
- A form of slide-rest
- An old-time worm and worn-gear
- Simple method of developing the screw thread
- Anthony Robinson's triple-threaded screw
- The many uses of the early lathes
- An old "early lathe"
- Cutting left-hand threads
- Crown gear and "lantern pinion" for operating the lead screw
- Transition from wooden to iron lathe beds
- The Putnam lathe of 1836
- The Freeland lathe of 1853
- Various classes of lathes to be illustrated and described
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Document Details
- Format
- Pages
- 480
- Size
- 33.7 MB
- Category
- Machining