Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 283
the aid of anv feed-motion, for the force required to bend the shaving (in heavycuts only) will react upon the tool, forcing it up and into its cut, while the amount of bottom rake,or clearance, as it is sometimes called, may be made just sufficient to permit the tool to enter its cutto the… … cate an operation for ordinary practice. The experiment has, however, been successfully tried ; butit was found necessary to have the slides of the lathe very nicely adjusted, and to take up the lostmotion in the cross-feed screw. For roughing out and for long continuous cuts, this tool is the best…
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