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1895 Article-Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., #2 Plain & #3 Universal Horizontal Milling Machines |
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Industry Magazine, Dec 1895, pg. 726 |
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11/23/2014 10:44:23 AM |
The rise of machine tool making in Cincinnati, beginning about 1865, or thirty years ago, is an important fact in the industrial history of this country.
At first, for ten years or so, there was not much departure from good precedents elsewhere, but then began various additions and changes aided by a more direct contact with the great Western market, and finally came the venture into the highest types and the most intricate machines, among other things universal milling machines of the highest class, including various refinements, which are much better set forth in the fine engravings on the opposite page, than can be done in words, even if we had the space for lengthy description.
Our attention was called to these implements by the awkward looking diagonal stays seen on the smaller machine, but which for heavy or long cuts will impart a rigidity in all planes not attainable by the ordinary overhung supports, or by some less effective devices that have been employed. Of course the machines are complete without this attachment for ordinary work, but it is important for the heavier kinds of duty and need be applied only in such cases.
The variations of feeding movement have always been too few, and the extremes insufficient, but in the machines shown there is at the rear end of the main spindle a system of change wheels that in combination with the step pulleys give twelve changes of rate for the feeding movements.
The machines are made by the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company, who devote their whole attention to machinery of this class, and in this way attain not only excellence but cheaper production of what must necessarily be high priced machines.
We note another new feature in swiveling tables that may be mentioned, an extremely broad base and an avoidance of built-up height in the work supports. The various adjustments are a study and a result of evolution in design. |
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1895 Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., #2 Plain & #3 Universal Horizontal Milling Machines
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