Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Indexing head. Indexing head and tailstock set up on a milling machine's table. An indexing head, also known as a dividing head or spiral head, [1] is a specialized tool that allows a workpiece to be circularly indexed; that is, easily and precisely rotated to preset angles or circular divisions. Indexing heads are usually used on the tables of ...
Milling is the process of machining using rotary cutters to remove material [ 1 ] by advancing a cutter into a workpiece. This may be done by varying directions [ 2 ] on one or several axes, cutter head speed, and pressure. [ 3 ] Milling covers a wide variety of different operations and machines, on scales from small individual parts to large ...
The Cincinnati Milling Machine Company was an American machine tool builder headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Incorporated in 1889, the company was formed for the purpose of building and promoting innovative new machine tool designs, especially milling machines. The principals in forming the company were Frederick A. Geier and Fred Holz.
Boring (manufacturing) A part's-eye view of a boring bar. Hole types: Blind hole (left), through hole (middle), interrupted hole (right). In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or cast) by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), such as in boring a ...
Bullard Mult-Au-Matic, a vertical, multispindle automatic lathe, 1914. [1] Memorial Day 1942 at Bullard. The Bullard Machine Tool Company was a large American machine tool builder. It specialized in vertical boring mills and was largely responsible for the development of the modern form of that class of machine tools. [2]
JPY 11.4 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 95 million) (FY 2014) Number of employees. 4,731 (3.2018) Website. Official website. Footnotes / references. [1][2][3] Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (株式会社牧野フライス製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Makino Furaisu Seisakusho), commonly known as Makino, is a machine tool builder with global sales and ...
Modern machine shop workstation, 2009. A machine shop or engineering workshop is a room, building, or company where machining, a form of subtractive manufacturing, is done. In a machine shop, machinists use machine tools and cutting tools to make parts, usually of metal or plastic (but sometimes of other materials such as glass or wood).
Jig borer. The jig borer is a type of machine tool invented at the end of World War I to enable the quick and precise location of hole centers. It was invented independently in Switzerland and the United States. [1] It resembles a specialized kind of milling machine that provides tool and die makers with a higher degree of positioning precision ...