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Automatic lathe

Index Automatic lathe

An automatic lathe is a lathe (usually a metalworking lathe) whose actions are controlled automatically. [1]

81 relations: Accuracy and precision, Assembly line, Automation, Automotive industry, Bandsaw, Bar stock, Boring (manufacturing), Bridgeport (machine tool brand), Brown & Sharpe, Cabinetry, Cam, Carpentry, Christopher Miner Spencer, Chuck (engineering), Collet, Commodity, Competition (economics), Computer network, Diameter, Die head, Drill bit, Emigration, Export, Fay automatic lathe, File (tool), Gatling gun, Gear, Geometric lathe, Hex key, Indexing (motion), Interchangeable parts, Jacques Besson, Job shop, Lathe, Lathe center, Leadscrew, Leonardo da Vinci, Linotype machine, Machine Age, Machine element, Machine shop, Machine tool, Machine tool builder, Metal lathe, Middle Ages, Music box, Natural language, New England, Numerical control, Original equipment manufacturer, ..., Overhead (business), Pantograph, Player piano, Pneumatic tool, Programmable logic controller, Ralph Flanders, Renaissance, Retronym, Rose engine lathe, Rotary transfer machine, Screw, Screw thread, Screw-cutting lathe, Semi-automatic pistol, South Bend Lathe, Speeds and feeds, Spindle (tool), The Churchill Machine Tool Company, Tool and die maker, Tool bit, Toolroom, Trade fair, Trade magazine, Turning, Turnover (employment), Turret lathe, Typesetting, Unit price, Whittling, Wire, World's fair. Expand index (31 more) »

Accuracy and precision

Precision is a description of random errors, a measure of statistical variability.

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Assembly line

An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.

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Automation

Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry is a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles, some of them are called automakers.

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Bandsaw

A bandsaw (also written band saw) is a saw with a long, sharp blade consisting of a continuous band of toothed metal stretched between two or more wheels to cut material.

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Bar stock

Bar stock, also (colloquially) known as blank, slug or billet, is a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and products.

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Boring (manufacturing)

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 gun barrel or an engine cylinder.

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Bridgeport (machine tool brand)

Bridgeport is a brand of milling machines and machining centers, which are machine tools used in the machining industries.

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Brown & Sharpe

Brown & Sharpe is a division of Hexagon AB, a Swedish multinational corporation focused mainly on metrological tools and technology.

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Cabinetry

A cabinet is a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers for storing miscellaneous items.

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Cam

A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion.

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Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.

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Christopher Miner Spencer

Christopher Miner Spencer (June 20, 1833 – January 14, 1922) was an American inventor, from Manchester, Connecticut, who invented the Spencer repeating rifle, one of the earliest models of lever-action rifle, a steam powered "horseless carriage", and several other inventions.

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Chuck (engineering)

A chuck is a specialized type of clamp.

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Collet

A collet is a subtype of chuck that forms a collar around an object to be held and exerts a strong clamping force on the object when it is tightened, usually by means of a tapered outer collar.

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Commodity

In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

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Competition (economics)

In economics, competition is a condition where different economic firmsThis article follows the general economic convention of referring to all actors as firms; examples in include individuals and brands or divisions within the same (legal) firm.

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Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

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Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.

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Die head

A die head is a threading die that is used in the high volume production of threaded components.

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Drill bit

Drill bits are cutting tools used to remove material to create holes, almost always of circular cross-section.

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Emigration

Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere.

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Export

The term export means sending of goods or services produced in one country to another country.

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Fay automatic lathe

The Fay automatic lathe was an automatic lathe tailored to cutting workpieces that were mounted on centers (tools with pointed ends to accurately position a center-drilled workpiece about an axis, either directly or by using a mandrel).

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File (tool)

A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece.

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Gatling gun

The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire spring loaded, hand cranked weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun.

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Gear

A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut like teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part to transmit torque.

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Geometric lathe

A geometric lathe was used for making ornamental patterns on the plates used in printing bank notes and postage stamps.

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Hex key

A hex key, Allen key or Allen wrench is a tool used to drive bolts and screws with hexagonal sockets in their heads.

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Indexing (motion)

Indexing in reference to motion is moving (or being moved) into a new position or location quickly and easily but also precisely.

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Interchangeable parts

Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical.

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Jacques Besson

Jacques Besson (1540? - 1573) was a French Protestant inventor, mathematician, and philosopher, chiefly remembered for his popular treatise on machines Theatrum Instrumentorum (1571–72), which saw many reprints in different languages.

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Job shop

Job shops are typically small manufacturing systems that handle job production, that is, custom/bespoke or semi-custom/bespoke manufacturing processes such as small to medium-size customer orders or batch jobs.

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Lathe

A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

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Lathe center

A lathe center, often shortened to center, is a tool that has been ground to a point to accurately position a workpiece on an axis.

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Leadscrew

A leadscrew (or lead screw), also known as a power screw or translation screw,Bhandari, p. 202.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Linotype machine

The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies.

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Machine Age

The Machine Age is an era that includes the early 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century.

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Machine element

Machine element refers to an elementary component of a machine.

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Machine shop

A machine shop is a room, building, or company where machining is done.

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Machine tool

A machine tool is a machine for shaping or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformation.

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Machine tool builder

A machine tool builder is a corporation or person that builds machine tools, usually for sale to manufacturers, who use them to manufacture products.

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Metal lathe

A metal lathe or metalworking lathe is a large class of lathes designed for precisely machining relatively hard materials.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Music box

A music box or musical box is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ''lamellae'') of a steel comb.

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Natural language

In neuropsychology, linguistics, and the philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Numerical control

Computer numerical control (CNC) is the automation of machine tools by means of computers executing pre-programmed sequences of machine control commands.

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Original equipment manufacturer

An Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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Overhead (business)

In business, overhead or overhead expense refers to an ongoing expense of operating a business.

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Pantograph

A pantograph (Greek roots παντ- "all, every" and γραφ- "to write", from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen.

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Player piano

A player piano (also known as pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI.

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Pneumatic tool

A pneumatic tool, air tool, air-powered tool or pneumatic-powered tool is a type of power tool, driven by compressed air, supplied by an air compressor.

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Programmable logic controller

A programmable logic controller (PLC), or programmable controller is an industrial digital computer which has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, or robotic devices, or any activity that requires high reliability control and ease of programming and process fault diagnosis.

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Ralph Flanders

Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Retronym

A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form or version from a more recent one.

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Rose engine lathe

A rose engine lathe is a specialized kind of geometric lathe.

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Rotary transfer machine

A rotary transfer machine is a machine tool, typically for metal working by machining, comprising a large indexing table with machining stations surrounding the table.

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Screw

A screw is a type of fastener, in some ways similar to a bolt (see Differentiation between bolt and screw below), typically made of metal, and characterized by a helical ridge, known as a male thread (external thread).

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Screw thread

A screw thread, often shortened to thread, is a helical structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force.

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Screw-cutting lathe

A screw-cutting lathe is a machine (specifically, a lathe) capable of cutting very accurate screw threads via single-point screw-cutting, which is the process of guiding the linear motion of the tool bit in a precisely known ratio to the rotating motion of the workpiece.

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Semi-automatic pistol

A semi-automatic pistol is a type of pistol that is semi-automatic, meaning it uses the energy of the fired cartridge to cycle the action of the firearm and advance the next available cartridge into position for firing.

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South Bend Lathe

South Bend Lathe is a brand of machine tools.

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Speeds and feeds

The phrase speeds and feeds or feeds and speeds refers to two separate velocities in machine tool practice, cutting speed and feed rate.

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Spindle (tool)

In machine tools, a spindle is a rotating axis of the machine, which often has a shaft at its heart.

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The Churchill Machine Tool Company

The Churchill Machine Tool Company Limited began as the manufacturing subsidiaryLloyd Jones & Lewis p. 85.

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Tool and die maker

Tool and die makers are a class of machinists in the manufacturing industries who make jigs, fixtures, dies, molds, machine tools, cutting tools, gauges, and other tools used in manufacturing processes.

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Tool bit

A tool bit is a non-rotary cutting tool used in metal lathes, shapers, and planers.

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Toolroom

A toolroom is a room where tools are stored or, in a factory, a space where tools are made and repaired for use throughout the rest of the factory.

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Trade fair

A trade fair (trade show, trade exhibition, or expo) is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of rivals, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.

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Trade magazine

A trade magazine, also called a trade journal, or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.

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Turning

Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool, typically a non-rotary tool bit, describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates.

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Turnover (employment)

In human resources context, turnover is the act of replacing an employee with a new employee.

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Turret lathe

The turret lathe is a form of metalworking lathe that is used for repetitive production of duplicate parts, which by the nature of their cutting process are usually interchangeable.

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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical typesDictionary.com Unabridged.

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Unit price

Average prices represent, quite simply, total sales revenue divided by total units sold.

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Whittling

Whittling may refer either to the art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife or a time-occupying, non-artistic (contrast wood carving for artistic process) process of repeatedly shaving slivers from a piece of wood.

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Wire

A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal.

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World's fair

A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_lathe

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