The Lathe and its Uses by James Lukin
by James Lukin
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lukin, James, 1828-1917
- Title
- The Lathe & Its Uses Or, Instruction in the Art of Turning Wood and Metal. Including a Description of the Most Modern Appliances for the Ornamentation of Plane and Curved Surfaces. With an Appendix, in Which is Described an Entirely Novel Form of Lathe for Eccentric and Rose Engine Turning; a Lathe and Planing Machine Combined; and Other Valuable Matter Relating to the Art.
- Credits
- Produced by Karin Spence, Curtis Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain works at the University of Michigan's Making of America collection.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery
- Subject
- Lathes
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60819
- Release Date
- November 30, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LATHE & ITS USES;
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE LATHE AND ITS USES. — Chucks. — Hand Turning of Wood. — Hollowed Work. — Cutting Screws. — Hollowing Out Soft Wood. — American Scroll Chuck. — Metal Turning by Hand Tools. — Overhead Apparatus. — Self-acting and Screw-cutting Lathes. — Wheel Cutting in the Lathe. — Fret Saws to Mount upon the Lathe Bed. — Turning Spheres. — Hoblyn's Compound Slide-Rest. — Chucks with Slides and Compound Movements. — Turning Ovals, etc., by Means of a Template. — Eccentric Chuck. — Curiosities. — Grooving and Mortising Small Work. — Ornamental Turning. — The Eccentric Cutter Frame. — Segment Engine. Fig. 287 . — Holtzapffel's Rose Cutter Frame. — Universal Cutter Frame. — Rose Engine. — Rectilineal Chuck. — Epicycloidal Chuck. — The Spiral Chuck ( Fig. 319 ).
- 5.APPENDIX. — Professor Willis's Tool Holder for the Slide Rest. — Munro's Planing Machine to be attached to the Lathe, and worked with the foot. — Hicks' Expanding Mandrel. — Turning Spheres by means of Templates. — Plant's Geometric Chuck. — A Paper on the Principles which Govern the Formation and Application of Acute Edges, with special reference to Fixed Turning-tools, contributed by Mr. Dodsworth Haydon. — Detached-cutter Holders. — New form of Rose Engine by E. Taylor. — Oval Turning and Rose Cutting with Templates with my Apparatus.
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