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1896 Article-Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Plain Horizontal Milling Machine |
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Cassier's Magazine Sep 1896 pg 340 |
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7/21/2011 9:39:12 PM |
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All machine shops, even those of moderate size, will find a plain milling machine, like the Brown & Sharpe, No. 4, shown in Fig. 3, almost indispensable for such work, as well as for much plain face milling and for work done by "straddle" mills, such as nut finishing. This type of plain milling machinehas been most carefully designed to enable the operator to change the cutter and to set the work rapidly. The cutter arbor is stiffened by the detachable yoke. A comparatively little sum for cutters will cover a great variety of work with this machine. inches long. The saw on the machine is 36 inches in diameter. The feed mechanism is arranged to have a feed one-eighth of an inch per minute on the slowest, up to one inch on the fastest feed. This is controlled by a lever which can instantly change the feed from one extreme to the other. The periphery of the saw runs at all times |
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1896 Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Plain Horizontal Milling Machine
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