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With 95 percent of an automobile's moving parts requiring grinding, the automotive industry soon became Norton's biggest customer. With a resistance to grinding innovation, Norton gradually lost most of its industry market share by the mid-1950s. [4] In 1962, Norton became a publicly held company. [6] Since 2009, Norton has been a chief sponsor ...
In 1873 Jeppson managed to produce an artificial emery grinding stone. He continued his experiments and in 1885 the Norton Emery Wheel Company was created with Jeppson as one of the founders. Jeppson became the company’s first plant manager. Jeppson then went on to become the Chief Engineer of the Norton Emery Wheel Company.
Grinding wheels are self-sharpening to a small degree; for optimal use they may be dressed and trued by the use of wheel or grinding dressers. Dressing the wheel refers to removing the current layer of abrasive, so that a fresh and sharp surface is exposed to the work surface. Trueing the wheel makes the grinding surface parallel to the ...
Charles Hotchkiss Norton (November 23, 1851, Plainville, Connecticut – October 27, 1942, Plainville, Connecticut) was an American mechanical engineer and designer of machine tools. [ 1 ] After working for the Seth Thomas Clock company in Thomaston , in 1886 Norton became Assistant Engineer with the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company at ...
The Bryant Chucking Grinder Company was founded in 1909 by William LeRoy (Roy [6]) Bryant, one of the machine tool entrepreneurs mentored by James Hartness of the Jones & Lamson Machine Company (J&L). Roy Bryant had joined J&L in 1897, [3] became chief draughtsman in 1899, [3] and was chief engineer by 1905. [3]
Cylindrical grinding is defined as having four essential actions: The work (object) must be constantly rotating; The grinding wheel must be constantly rotating; The grinding wheel is fed towards and away from the work; Either the work or the grinding wheel is transversed with respect to the other.
A schematic diagram of the centerless grinding process. Centerless grinding is a machining process that uses abrasive cutting to remove material from a workpiece. [1] Centerless grinding differs from centered grinding operations in that no spindle or fixture is used to locate and secure the workpiece; [2] the workpiece is secured between two rotary grinding wheels, and the speed of their ...
Rotating abrasive wheel on a bench grinder. Pedal-powered grinding machine, Russia, 1902. A grinding machine, often shortened to grinder, is any of various power tools or machine tools used for grinding. It is a type of material removal using an abrasive wheel as the cutting tool. [1]