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1894 Article-William E. Gang & Co., Compound Radial Drill |
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Industry Magazine, Oct 1894, pg. 620 |
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The construction of machine tools, we do not consider it a manufacture, has in Cincinnati made marvelous progress in thirty years past. We can well remember when the makers in New England thought that work of this class could not well be done in the Western States, and that the venture in Cincinnati would prove a failure, but the very first tools made there, copied mainly after Philadelphia examples, were of a higher class than could be procured in New England works of that time.
The accuracy of fitting required a period of evolution, but it came in the end, and when to this is added a greater versatility, and a boldness of new design, the Cincinnati makers came to the front, and now send a considerable part of their product back across the Allegheny Mountains, and are contending for the market everywhere. One reason for this is that machine-tool making in Cincinnati has never become a regular "manufacture," as it has in New England. Implements were designed and made for various kinds of special work, and a draughting room was an essential feature in the business.
The present machine, which we have called a compound one, embodies several features of novelty. It has all the required functions of a common fixed drilling machine of the first class, and has, besides, radial and swing adjustments of the spindle, constituting it, when required, a radial drilling machine, is, in fact, a combination of the two. We copy the following from the maker's description:
''The drill has power feed and quick return, with a new balancing device to the spindle. The spindle feed screw and elevating screw are made of steel, and all thrust bearings are provided with phosphor bronze washers. The machine is made in three sizes, drilling to the center of 3-foot, 5-foot and 7-foot circles, respectively. It receives, under the spindles and upon the bed plate, work 4 feet, 5 feet, and 5½ feet, The spindles have taper holes for Nos. 3 and 4 Morse shanks. The machines weigh 2,500 pounds, 3,500 pounds and 4,000 pounds. They are made by Wm. E. Gang & Co., Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati." |
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1894 William E. Gang & Co., Compound Radial Drill
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