Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 206
The action of the machine in ordinary parallel turning is the Bame as in any common lathe. The D of obtaining a Belf-acting longitudinal motion of the tool-carrier is by a stellar plate fixed upon the scr.-w r, and which is worked by an arm bolted to the face-plate or to the object which is being…
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